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Anonymous
6 years agoNot applicable
postgresql odbc authentication error
Hi everyone: I've been having trouble connecting to PostgreSQL by ODBC. The aplication responds with an error: "password authentication failed for user 'postgres'". I try this credentials with ot...
Anonymous
6 years agoNot applicable
Hi:
I try to restart DSN and power bi connection (detele all permitions and restar de connection), but still not working.
Thank you!
mathoucds
6 years agoFrequent Visitor
Hi Anonymous , do you have '%' in your password? If it's the case, you can try to replace '%' by '%25'
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Issues/PostgreSQL-ODBC-to-PowerBI-Password/idi-p/874849
- Amicci3 years agoFrequent Visitor
spent the past 4 ours trying to make this damnmed thing work and this is the solution.
the werid thing is that in the ODBC local instance it accepts the % normally however when authenticating trough PBI it does not.