Downgrading Heroku PG database

Accidentally I’ve provisioned paid plan for PG database. To downgrade such a database you need to:

# safety measures
heroku maintenance:on

# create a new database, new url will be given, for me it was: HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ORANGE_URL
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev 

 # copy current db to ORANGE db
heroku pg:copy DATABASE_URL HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ORANGE_URL

# make new database active
heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ORANGE_URL

# ... and we are back
heroku maintenance:off

After promotion old database was renamed to PINK then I removed it from heroku panel.

There is also other strategy for downgrade but it does not work for free plan: docs

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