title: Starting database on program start
body: <p>I'm writing a small application that connects to a Postgres database. </p>
  
  <p>Does eclipse or maven support startup scripts that would allow me to check to see if the database is running and start it if not when I start the program? I think it might be bad programming practice since servers would never do this in a production environment however It would really make development much easier to me. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance!</p>