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juanca
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9 years ago
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PostgreSQL connection through On-premise Data Gateway

Hi everyone,

I need to connect my app.powerbi.com to a PostgreSQL database. I have an on-premise data gateway installed on my computer (the computer where I have my PowerBI Desktop and my report design, etc.).

The issue is that when I try to set the PostgreSQL origin in the Gateway Configuration in app.powerbi.com, the specific option for this database doesn't exist.

Could I set the PostgreSQL origin through another origin (i.e. SQL Server or MySQL) ? If this is not possible, which is the alternative?

Thanks a lot,
Kind regards.

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  • martina's avatar
    martina
    9 years ago

    Hello,

    for ODBC connection to postgres you need to get installed ODBC driver for postgres;i am using PostgresSQL Unicode(x64).

    After that you have 2 options:

    1) create user DSN via ODBC data source administrator (C:\Windows\System32\odbcad32.exe). In that case the connection string for ODBC data source is "dsn=dsn_name" where dsn_name represents the user dsn created via tool above

    2) alternative option for connection string is: driver={PostgreSQL Unicode(x64)};server=server_name;port=5432;database=db_name

    where server_name represents a server name or its IP, db_name is name of database.

    For using on-premise gateway you need to use ODBC connection to postgress on power bi desktop. Then you need to configure data sources using ODBC the same way on on-premise gateway.

     

    I am using above approach for connection to multiple different postgres databases.

    I hope it helps.

     

    Kind regards

    M

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  • martina's avatar
    martina
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    9 years ago

    Hi,

    you need to use ODBC. ODBC must be used also on power bi desktop to ensure that data sources would match.

    • juanca's avatar
      juanca
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      9 years ago

      Hello,


      Thanks for your reply.


      I'm not finding anything about how to do that in the Documentation, could you give some advice? For example, I don't know how to build the "connection string" for the ODBC connection.

       

      Thank you,
      Kind regards.

      • martina's avatar
        martina
        Icon for Advocate I rankAdvocate I
        9 years ago

        Hello,

        for ODBC connection to postgres you need to get installed ODBC driver for postgres;i am using PostgresSQL Unicode(x64).

        After that you have 2 options:

        1) create user DSN via ODBC data source administrator (C:\Windows\System32\odbcad32.exe). In that case the connection string for ODBC data source is "dsn=dsn_name" where dsn_name represents the user dsn created via tool above

        2) alternative option for connection string is: driver={PostgreSQL Unicode(x64)};server=server_name;port=5432;database=db_name

        where server_name represents a server name or its IP, db_name is name of database.

        For using on-premise gateway you need to use ODBC connection to postgress on power bi desktop. Then you need to configure data sources using ODBC the same way on on-premise gateway.

         

        I am using above approach for connection to multiple different postgres databases.

        I hope it helps.

         

        Kind regards

        M