Preparing PostgreSQL for Heroku

This section is dedicated to actually configuring each of your environments, whether using an IDE or command-line window or terminal. To install and use PostgreSQL, we will need to install it locally and then again in each of our remote environments.

Installing PostgreSQL

This section will guide you through installing the PostgreSQL software needed on your local and remote machines.

Local installation

To use PostgreSQL, we will need to install a suite of software and drivers on each of our machines. In the Heroku dashboards, we will need to include add-ons to get PostgreSQL installed in those environments. To install it on your development machine, you can choose to download the installer for your platform directly from the publisher's website, found here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/. During installation, make note of the port that you set, the password that you create, and whether it asks you to add anything to your environment...