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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Once you have babel running in watch mode, you can start making changes to parse
 
 If your pull request introduces a change that may affect the storage or retrieval of objects, you may want to make sure it plays nice with Postgres.
 
-* Run the tests against the postgres database with `PARSE_SERVER_TEST_DB=postgres npm test`. You'll need to have postgres running on your machine and setup [appropriately](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/.travis.yml#L37)
+* Run the tests against the postgres database with `PARSE_SERVER_TEST_DB=postgres npm test`. You'll need to have postgres running on your machine and setup [appropriately](https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/master/.travis.yml#L37) or use [`Docker`](#run-a-parse-postgres-with-docker).
 * The Postgres adapter has a special debugger that traces all the sql commands. You can enable it with setting the environment variable `PARSE_SERVER_LOG_LEVEL=debug`
 * If your feature is intended to only work with MongoDB, you should disable PostgreSQL-specific tests with:
    
@@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ If your pull request introduces a change that may affect the storage or retrieva
   - `it_only_db('mongo')` // will make a test that only runs on mongo
   - `it_exclude_dbs(['postgres'])` // will make a test that runs against all DB's but postgres
 
+#### Run a Parse Postgres with Docker
+
+To launch the compatible Postgres instance, copy and paste the following line into your shell:
+
+```sh
+docker run -d --name parse-postgres -p 5432:5432 -e POSTGRES_USER=$USER --rm mdillon/postgis:11-alpine && sleep 5 && docker exec -it parse-postgres psql -U $USER -c 'create database parse_server_postgres_adapter_test_database;' && docker exec -it parse-postgres psql -U $USER -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;' -d parse_server_postgres_adapter_test_database && docker exec -it parse-postgres psql -U $USER -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;' -d parse_server_postgres_adapter_test_database
+```
+To stop the Postgres instance:
+
+```sh
+docker stop parse-postgres
+```
+
 ### Generate Parse Server Config Definition
 
 If you want to make changes to [Parse Server Configuration][config] add the desired configuration to [src/Options/index.js][config-index] and run `npm run definitions`. This will output [src/Options/Definitions.js][config-def] and [src/Options/docs.js][config-docs].