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@payloadcms/db-postgres
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Official Postgres adapter for Payload.
npm install @payloadcms/db-postgres
import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { postgresAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-postgres'
export default buildConfig({
db: postgresAdapter({
pool: {
connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
},
}),
// ...rest of config
})
More detailed usage can be found in the Payload Docs.
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The officially supported Postgres database adapter for Payload
The npm package @payloadcms/db-postgres receives a total of 59,971 weekly downloads. As such, @payloadcms/db-postgres popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @payloadcms/db-postgres demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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