Getting Started with PostgreSQL on Windows

A Step by Step Guide to Installing and Setting up Postgres on your Windows Machine.

So what is Postgres huh?😏

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system, emphasizing extensibility and technical standards compliance. It is designed to handle a range of workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users. Basically, Postgres has superpowers; capable of handling very large datasets as though it was smashing peanuts.

Enough said, Who uses it?😒

Now, you are wondering who could possibly need all that. Well, thanks to its superpowers, a lot of firms use it. Including top-rank companies like Netflix, Uber, Spotify and etc.

Let’s get down to it!😎

I was on a project, that I needed to scale, and part of the business requirement was Postgres. It was super frustrating to get it started on a Windows machine, due to lack of efficient tutorials and knowledge-base even the official site and documentation were not forthcoming.
To avoid the same stress I went through, and therefore make life relatively easier for you, follow the steps without missing/jumping any. …