From 7ce01dff0baf43166252bc2353179ce8da3c0c36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kasun <kasun.jayatilaka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 04:38:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] changed hibernate schema creation for test db

---
 backend/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml b/backend/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
index b415c9d..553dff6 100644
--- a/backend/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
+++ b/backend/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 spring:
   datasource:
-    url : ${DB_TEST_URL}
+    url: ${DB_TEST_URL}
     username: ${DB_USERNAME}
     password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
     driver-class-name: ${PG_DRIVER_CLASS_NAME}
   jpa:
     hibernate:
-      ddl-auto: create-drop
\ No newline at end of file
+      ddl-auto: update
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From 856fa9e166c5f5dabd7145ae04e39a81d207f6d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kasun <kasun.jayatilaka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 04:39:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] updated local postgresql database and updated doc for
 pgvector db creation

---
 docs/02-Preparation/02-Spring-Boot-setup.md | 55 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/02-Preparation/02-Spring-Boot-setup.md b/docs/02-Preparation/02-Spring-Boot-setup.md
index 90cb819..9659c0e 100644
--- a/docs/02-Preparation/02-Spring-Boot-setup.md
+++ b/docs/02-Preparation/02-Spring-Boot-setup.md
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ spring:
 
 ```
 
-Note that I'm using my own locally hosted PostgreSQL instances for the main and test database. The Docker Compose file will look something like this:
+The Docker Compose file for code-server will look something like this:
 
 ```
 ---
@@ -163,26 +163,43 @@ services:
       - 8124:8080
       - 5173:5173
     restart: unless-stopped
+```
 
-  vaessl-db:
-    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18
-    container_name: vaessl-db
-    environment:
-      - POSTGRES_DB=vaessl
-      - POSTGRES_USER=user
-      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pw
-    ports:
-      - 5433:5432
+Note that I'm using my own locally hosted PostgreSQL instances for the main and test database. Just add databases via SQL or PgAdmin and install the pgvector extension to each database manually. There is an offical ready-made pgvector docker image but if you already host a PostGreSQL database you need to add the extension yourself.
 
-  vassal-test-db:
-    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18
-    container_name: vassal-test-db
-    environment:
-      - POSTGRES_DB=vassal_test
-      - POSTGRES_USER=user
-      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pw
-    ports:
-      - 5434:5432
+Check the name of your PostGreSQL container:
+```
+docker ps
+```
+
+Enter your container via bash:
+
+```
+docker exec -it 876fb382969f bash
+```
+Before working on your database backup your databases:
+```
+su - postgres -c "pg_dumpall > /tmp/backup200526.sql"
+
+#exit the container and copy the backup file to local file system 
+docker cp 876fb382969f:/tmp/backup200526.sql .
+```
+
+Install dependencies, build and install pgvector:
+apt-get update
+apt-get install -y build-essential git postgresql-server-dev-all
+```
+git clone https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector.git
+cd pgvector
+make
+make install
+docker restart 876fb382969f 
+```
+Enter PostGreSQL container and create pgvector extension for each databse:
+```
+docker exec -it <container-name> psql -h localhost -U <db-user> -d <db-name>
+
+CREATE EXTENSION vector;
 ```
 
 # Appendix: Additional config for developing in Code-Server
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