Taps isn't reliable for anything but dummy databases. This command invokes the more powerful PGBackups. A side effect is that every time you pull your database locally a backup is also generated on your server.

Better Database Pulling With Heroku

#!/bin/bash

# Best use case is to create a file "update_local_db.sh" in your project folder and then call the command with bash update_local_db
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function LastBackupName () { 
  heroku pgbackups | tail -n 1 | cut -d"|" -f 1
}

# This part assumes you have a low limit on no. of backups allowed
old_backup=$(LastBackupName)
heroku pgbackups:destroy $old_backup 

heroku pgbackups:capture 
new_backup=$(LastBackupName)
curl $(heroku pgbackups:url $new_backup) > temporary_backup.dump
pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_USER -d REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DB_NAME temporary_backup.dump 
rm -f temporary_backup.dump