Get PGAdapter

This page explains how to get the PGAdapter binary. PGAdapter is used with PostgreSQL-dialect databases.

To run the PGAdapter standalone in the JVM, download the latest jar file and a new lib directory that contains the required dependencies.
```
wgethttps://storage.googleapis.com/pgadapter-jar-releases/pgadapter.tar.gz\
 && tar-xzvfpgadapter.tar.gz
```
To run PGAdapter in a Docker container, get the latest version by executing the following command:
```
dockerpullgcr.io/cloud-spanner-pg-adapter/pgadapter
```
Get a previous version by appending the version as a tag.
```
dockerpullgcr.io/cloud-spanner-pg-adapter/pgadapter:v<version-number>
```

To use PGAdapter in a process:

Add google-cloud-spanner-pgadapter as a dependency to your project by adding the following code to your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
 <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
 <artifactId>google-cloud-spanner-pgadapter</artifactId>
 <version>0.51.1</version>
</dependency>

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