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`prisma db pull` doesn't read `.env` file and errors with Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL

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Bug description

yarn prisma db pull report Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL.

Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma
Error: Get config: Schema Parsing P1012

error: Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL.
  -->  schema.prisma:10
   | 
 9 |   provider = "postgresql"
10 |   url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
   | 

Validation Error Count: 1

.env: DATABASE_URL=“postgresql://user:pass@localhost:49154/db?schema=public”

How to reproduce

Expected behavior

read DATABASE_URL from .env correctly

Prisma information

Environment variables loaded from .env prisma : 3.9.0 @prisma/client : 3.9.0 Current platform : darwin-arm64 Query Engine (Node-API) : libquery-engine bcc2ff906db47790ee902e7bbc76d7ffb1893009 (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/libquery_engine-darwin-arm64.dylib.node) Migration Engine : migration-engine-cli bcc2ff906db47790ee902e7bbc76d7ffb1893009 (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/migration-engine-darwin-arm64) Introspection Engine : introspection-core bcc2ff906db47790ee902e7bbc76d7ffb1893009 (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/introspection-engine-darwin-arm64) Format Binary : prisma-fmt bcc2ff906db47790ee902e7bbc76d7ffb1893009 (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/prisma-fmt-darwin-arm64) Default Engines Hash : bcc2ff906db47790ee902e7bbc76d7ffb1893009 Studio : 0.457.0

Environment & setup

OS: macOS 12.2
Database: PostgreSQL 13
Node.js version: v14.18.1

Prisma Version

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:7
Comments:11 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

6reactions

millspcommented, Feb 2, 2022

Hey, this issue has been fixed in 3.9.1 which was just published. Thanks for reporting this!

3reactions

Jolg42commented, Feb 2, 2022

Hi @smoothdvd

Thanks for the report!

I can confirm this is a regression, we are working on a fix and are planning a patch release later today 🚢

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