Posted on by Joydip Kumar

Set up a Spring Boot Application With PostgreSQL

In this article, we will see the steps to set up a Spring Boot application with PostgreSQL. We will have a simple CRUD operation in Postgres Database by exposing the application via Rest API. We will use POSTMAN to test the application.

Setting up Postgres Server

  • Download the Postgres server from the link: https://www.postgresql.org/download/
  • Run the installer. It will also ask the password for the superuser: postgres
  • Click on pgAdmin4.exe located inside the PostgreSQL folder inside Program Files.

Setting up Spring Boot Application

Prerequisite:

Have JDK 1.8 installed