---
title: "Postgres Queries, Deploy from Subdir, Healthy Start Error"
date: 2021-10-22T14:00:00.000-07:00
number: 0052
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2021-10-22
---

# Postgres Queries, Deploy from Subdir, Healthy Start Error

There are 52 weeks in a year, this is the 52nd changelog... which means we have shipped public updates for a whole year. We don't know where the days go, but we wouldn't want to do anything else.

Now lets get to the changelog.

## Raw SQL queries

We've provided a basic user interface with both our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for a while now but often our users would need to use an external application to take some more custom actions.

Starting today, we provide an option to run raw queries against your SQL databases with context-aware autocompletion.

[Video: Raw SQL queries]

## Deploy from Subdirectory

As mentioned in a previous Changelog, we're working our way to implementing monorepos and this is a key step. When deploying from GitHub, you can now specify a "root directory" to deploy from. When building your code we deploy from this directory rather than from the root. However, you will not be able to access any code in a parent directory.

[Image: Deploy from Subdirectory]

## Bad Start Command Errors

We admit it, our errors were vague if you didn't provide a proper start command. To help with the debugging process- we implemented improved colorization of deployment logs and surface more specific errors.


[Image: A failed deployment screen with new text colorization]

## Improvements and Fixes

- Changing a variable will redeploy the latest deploy if it failed (rather than only if it was successful)
- Made improvements to the blog on how it pulls content. Fixed issues where the blog would not update properly in time.
- The Railway Raycast extension has been published to the store. Install it by first [enabling extensions](https://developers.raycast.com/basics/getting-started), opening Raycast and searching "Store" and then "Railway".