title: Is it possible to have a Heroku Postgres DB replicate down to a slave DB on my laptop?
body: <p>I'd like to have my master Postgres DB, which is is hosted on Heroku, replicate down to a slave DB on my laptop.  Is this possible?</p>
  
  <p>Heroku's documentation talks about both master and slave hosted within Heroku:
  <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-follower-databases" rel="noreferrer">https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-follower-databases</a></p>
  
  <p>Someone else asked whether it's possible to have the master outside Heroku and a slave inside Heroku (it's not):
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12182899/follow-external-database-from-heroku">Follow external database from Heroku</a></p>
  
  <p>I haven't seen an answer for the reverse -- having the master in Heroku and the slave outside.</p>
  
  <p>Why do I want this?  To speed up development.  With my app running locally and the DB in the cloud, the round-trip is long so data access is slow.  Most data access is read-only.  If I could have a local slave, it would speed things up significantly.</p>
  
  <p>Related: what if my laptop is disconnected for a while?  Would that cause problems for the master?</p>