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Learning Heroku Postgres

By : Patrick Rafael de Oliveira Espake
Book Image

Learning Heroku Postgres

By: Patrick Rafael de Oliveira Espake

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Heroku Postgres
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Keyword List
Index

Adding the add-on and creating the first database


Heroku Postgres is accessible via any programming language by the connection driver of PostgreSQL; this includes all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku, such as Java, Ruby, Python, Scala, Play, Node.js, and Clojure.

Adding the Heroku Postgres add-on

You can add the Heroku Postgres add-on in two different ways: via the Heroku add-ons gallery or the Heroku client.

Via the Heroku add-ons gallery

Heroku offers a gallery of add-ons for your applications, this gallery is available at https://addons.heroku.com/.

Heroku add-ons gallery

In the Data Stores area, you can find the Heroku Postgres add-on or you can find it at https://addons.heroku.com/heroku-postgresql.

Tip

Before installing the Heroku Postgres add-on, you must log in to Heroku.

As shown in the first chapter, this add-on has many plans that change according to the functionality of the cache size, storage limit, the simultaneous connection limit, high availability, and the ability to...