Create a managed Postgres database on Render via API and retrieve its connection strings
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Documented steps
Auth: `Authorization: Bearer <API key>`; get ownerId from GET /v1/owners (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/authentication, https://api-docs.render.com/reference/list-owners).
POST https://api.render.com/v1/postgres with required body: name, ownerId, plan (enums include free, basic_256mb…basic_4gb, pro_4gb…pro_512gb, accelerated_16gb…accelerated_1024gb, plus legacy starter/standard/pro/pro_plus/custom), version (11-18). Optional: region (frankfurt, oregon [default], ohio, singapore, virginia), diskSizeGB, enableHighAvailability (default false), readReplicas, connectionPool ('pgbouncer'|'none'), datadogAPIKey/datadogSite. 201 = created (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/create-postgres).
Get credentials: GET https://api.render.com/v1/postgres/{postgresId}/connection-info — returns internal/external connection details; the response contains sensitive credentials, don't log it (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/retrieve-postgres-connection-info).
Known gotchas
plan and version are strict enums — an unknown value is a 400. PostgreSQL versions 11 through 18 are accepted at creation (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/create-postgres).
Default region is oregon; set region explicitly if your services run elsewhere, since cross-region resources can't be queried together in some APIs like /v1/logs (https://api-docs.render.com/reference/create-postgres, https://api-docs.render.com/reference/list-logs).
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