Springboot postgres Failed to determine a suitable driver class

Question

I am trying to develop web application using SpringBoot and Postgres Database. However, on connecting to the application, I am getting error \"Failed to determine a suitable

Answer 1

For me the error was

Failed to configure a DataSource: 'url' attribute is not specified and no embedded datasource could be configured. Reason: Failed to determine a suitable driver class

Action: Consider the following: If you want an embedded database (H2, HSQL or Derby), please put it on the classpath. If you have database settings to be loaded from a particular profile you may need to activate it (no profiles are currently active).

and the issue was missing profile so I added the following in the classpath and it worked

spring.profiles.active=dev