Docs for connecting to mongo or postgres are unclear

[jesstelford]

Context: I'm a new user who has heard Keystone now supports Postgres.

I head to the docs and type in "Postgres". I see this:

Clicking the first option takes me here which describes installing & connecting to postgres itself, but not how I use postgres in Keystone.

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Similarly for Mongo:

I head to the docs and type in "Mongo". I see:

There's no "Mongo" results. Feeling adventurous, I click the "Mongoose" option which takes me to this page. Unfortunately it's light on details and only mentions Mongoose, which I'm not using.

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In both cases, I have no idea how to setup Keystone to connect to either a Postgres or Mongo DB.

_This issue inspired by this reddit post_

[xtechgamer735]

If you are creating a new project, it gives you the option to create with mongo or psql and set's it up nicely. What that does is define the connector (lines 8 - 19 in index.js). You then need to update this with a connection string for your psql server, which is done when you generate the project or edit line 11. You then need to run a create tables command, documented here: https://www.keystonejs.com/quick-start/

As far as management of the database goes, the ORM of Keystone abstracts this and does this for you. I only started using Keystone a few hours ago (and I'm a mongo man) so I'm unsure at this point how migrations work but I assume there's a command.

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