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+import { Pool, neonConfig } from '@neondatabase/serverless';
+import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/neon-serverless';
+import ws from "ws";
+import * as schema from "@shared/schema";
+
+neonConfig.webSocketConstructor = ws;
+
+if (!process.env.DATABASE_URL) {
+  throw new Error(
+    "DATABASE_URL must be set. Did you forget to provision a database?",
+  );
+}
+
+export const pool = new Pool({ connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL });
+export const db = drizzle({ client: pool, schema });