On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Peter van Eck <pe...@vaneckzone.net> wrote:
> > > Hi, We are looking into setting up a PostgreSQL environment for an > application that inputs JSON through via http rest calls. > > Now that we havent been using Postgres for these kind of setups I was > wondering what the course of action is in setting this up. > > The development team is coding this in srpingboot with an embedded mongodb > version. Do we have to configure pgrest for instance to enable postgres for > processing JSON rest calls via HTTP or is that not necessary ? > Again just puzzling in how to approach this... > PostgreSQL doesn't speak HTTP so you will need some piece of software/middleware that is capable of speaking both HTTP and PostgreSQL. You already have eas access to a HTTP understanding container in Spring/Java and a JDBC driver but there may be some extensions and/or applications out there - like this pgrest you speak of though its GitHub page shows little recent activity - that can provide an abstraction layer for you. I'll leave it to your favorite search engine and others to provide recommendations in this area. David J.
