Generic Postgres
Configuring your generic Postgres destination.
Prerequisites
- If your Postgres database is protected by security groups or other firewall settings, you will need to have the data syncing service's static IP available to complete Step 1.
Step 1: Allow access
Create a rule in a security group or firewall settings to whitelist:
- incoming connections to your host and port (usually
5432
) from the static IP. - outgoing connections from ports
1024
to65535
to the static IP.
Step 2: Create writer user
Create a database user to perform the writing of the source data.
- Open a connection to your PostgreSQL database.
- Create a user for the data transfer by executing the following SQL command.
CREATE USER <username> PASSWORD '<some-password>';
- Grant user
create
andtemporary
privileges on the database.create
allows the service to create new schemas andtemporary
allows the service to create temporary tables.
GRANT CREATE, TEMPORARY ON DATABASE <database> TO <username>;
If the
schema
already existsBy default, the service creates a new schema based on the destination configuration (in the next step). If you prefer to create the schema yourself before connecting the destination, you must ensure that the writer user has the proper permissions on the schema, using
GRANT ALL ON schema <schema> TO <username>;
Step 3: Add your destination
Securely share your host name, database name, port, your chosen schema name, username, and password with us to complete the connection.
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