A step-by-step guide for adding Slack webhook notifications to a GitHub Actions workflow that runs nightly pg_dump and restore jobs from AWS RDS to Neon Postgres. Covers creating a Slack app and webhook, updating the GitHub Actions YAML to capture job metadata (database name, size, start/end times), and writing JavaScript scripts to post formatted success and failure messages to a dedicated Slack channel.

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