Prepare the Environment to Support the Database

Learn about the Postgres add-on and how to use it.

Heroku add-ons

Although Heroku supports a wide range of databases, they make Postgres the easiest to use. 

To add a Postgres database, we use the Heroku add-on capability. To see which add-ons are already created for the application, use heroku addons:

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