fix(db): correct misleading error message when DATABASE_REPLICA_URL is malformed (#5023)

* v0.6.29: login improvements, posthog telemetry (#4026)

* feat(posthog): Add tracking on mothership abort (#4023)

Co-authored-by: Theodore Li <theo@sim.ai>

* fix(login): fix captcha headers for manual login  (#4025)

* fix(signup): fix turnstile key loading

* fix(login): fix captcha header passing

* Catch user already exists, remove login form captcha

* fix(db): correct misleading error message when DATABASE_REPLICA_URL is malformed

The error message said reads fall back to the primary when unset, but the
code throws a fatal error instead. The misleading parenthetical contradicted
actual behavior and could waste time during incident response when an operator
sees this message and expects graceful degradation.

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Co-authored-by: Waleed <walif6@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Theodore Li <theodoreqili@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Siddharth Ganesan <33737564+Sg312@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Vikhyath Mondreti <vikhyathvikku@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Theodore Li <theo@sim.ai>

Author: 5 people

packages/db/db.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const db = drizzle(postgresClient, { schema })
 const replicaUrl = process.env.DATABASE_REPLICA_URL
 if (replicaUrl && !/^postgres(ql)?:\/\//.test(replicaUrl)) {
   throw new Error(
-    'DATABASE_REPLICA_URL is set but is not a postgres:// DSN — fix or unset it (reads fall back to the primary when unset)'
+    'DATABASE_REPLICA_URL is set but is not a postgres:// DSN — fix the URL or unset the variable'
   )
 }