Knowledge Base

From an empty platform to a connectable Postgres database in five minutes.

A tour of the web console — connect, dashboard, project pages, and what each control does.

What a project is, what gets seeded when you create one, and project lifecycle.

Branches are full copies of your database — including point-in-time forks — with their own compute and endpoints.

Pooled vs direct vs read-only endpoints, and the session-state caveats that decide which your app needs.

Where to find your connection string, why it's masked, and how the audited reveal works.

Managing Postgres roles and databases on a branch, and the reveal-once password rules.

How branches suspend when idle, wake on the first connection, and how to tune or disable it.

CU bounds, live vertical resize, and how autoscaling uses them.

Add a read-only endpoint backed by a hot standby to scale reads and isolate heavy queries.

Continuous WAL archiving, retention windows, and how to actually recover data.

Move a database from Neon, Supabase, RDS, Azure, or any Postgres — dump/restore or near-zero-downtime live sync.

Creating, scoping, rotating, and revoking zdb_ API keys.

The tenancy model, member roles, and how to manage your team.

Every state-changing action is recorded — what's in an entry and how to use it.

The conventions every Zale DB API call shares.

The most common errors and what actually fixes them.