PostgresSQL Connection

The Postgres connection type provides connection to a Postgres database.

Configuring the Connection

Host (required)

The host to connect to.

Schema (optional)

Specify the schema name to be used in the database.

Login (required)

Specify the user name to connect.

Password (required)

Specify the password to connect.

Extra (optional)

Specify the extra parameters (as json dictionary) that can be used in postgres connection. The following parameters out of the standard python parameters are supported:

  • sslmode - This option determines whether or with what priority a secure SSL TCP/IP connection will be negotiated with the server. There are six modes: ‘disable’, ‘allow’, ‘prefer’, ‘require’, ‘verify-ca’, ‘verify-full’.

  • sslcert - This parameter specifies the file name of the client SSL certificate, replacing the default.

  • sslkey - This parameter specifies the file name of the client SSL key, replacing the default.

  • sslrootcert - This parameter specifies the name of a file containing SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate(s).

  • sslcrl - This parameter specifies the file name of the SSL certificate revocation list (CRL).

  • application_name - Specifies a value for the application_name configuration parameter.

  • keepalives_idle - Controls the number of seconds of inactivity after which TCP should send a keepalive message to the server.

More details on all Postgres parameters supported can be found in Postgres documentation.

Example “extras” field:

{
   "sslmode": "verify-ca",
   "sslcert": "/tmp/client-cert.pem",
   "sslca": "/tmp/server-ca.pem",
   "sslkey": "/tmp/client-key.pem"
}

When specifying the connection as URI (in AIRFLOW_CONN_* variable) you should specify it following the standard syntax of DB connections, where extras are passed as parameters of the URI (note that all components of the URI should be URL-encoded).

For example:

postgresql://postgres_user:XXXXXXXXXXXX@1.1.1.1:5432/postgresdb?sslmode=verify-ca&sslcert=%2Ftmp%2Fclient-cert.pem&sslkey=%2Ftmp%2Fclient-key.pem&sslrootcert=%2Ftmp%2Fserver-ca.pem