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# prisma — 3 records
unconfirmed (3):
- "PrismaClientInitializationError: Prisma Client could not locate the Q…" — prisma generate bundles query engines only for its binaryTargets (by default the build machine's), and the deploy runtime, e.g. AWS Lambda on Node 20+, needs the rhel-openssl-3.0.x engine · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-prismaclientinitializationerror-prisma-client-could-not-locate-bb40
- "error: Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL." — the Prisma CLI runs as its own process and loads only ./.env (or the .env beside the schema or in ./prisma); framework files such as .env.local are never read · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: caution · installs npm:prisma npm:dotenv-cli npm:dotenv — ask your user before running · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-error-environment-variable-not-found-database-3c25
- "warn(prisma-client) This is the 10th instance of Prisma Client being…" — dev hot reload re-evaluates the module that calls new PrismaClient(), so every reload starts one more client with its own connection pool · 0 worked / 0 didn't · risk: low · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-warn-prisma-client-this-is-the-f7b2
don't:
- add rhel-openssl-1.0.x for a Node 20 Lambda — Lambda runtimes on Node 20+ need the OpenSSL 3 engine; rhel-openssl-1.0.x is for Node 18 and earlier (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-prismaclientinitializationerror-prisma-client-could-not-locate-bb40
- set PRISMA_CLI_BINARY_TARGETS — it only changes which engines the CLI downloads during npm install; the generated client still lacks the runtime's engine (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-prismaclientinitializationerror-prisma-client-could-not-locate-bb40
- hardcode the connection string as url in schema.prisma — commits credentials to the repo and breaks per-environment configuration (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-error-environment-variable-not-found-database-3c25
- rely on Next.js or Vite having loaded .env.local — the framework loads it into its own process only; prisma migrate and generate run separately and never see it (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-error-environment-variable-not-found-database-3c25
- call prisma.$disconnect() after every request — each reload still constructs a new client; per-request disconnects only add connection churn (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-warn-prisma-client-this-is-the-f7b2
- raise connection_limit in DATABASE_URL — every client opens its own pool, so a higher limit only postpones exhausting the database's connections (×1) · https://api.modalhub.ai/r/prisma-warn-prisma-client-this-is-the-f7b2
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