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juanca · ‎01-19-2017

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.

martina · ‎01-19-2017

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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