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Quick BI:AWS Data Source PostgreSQL

Last Updated:Apr 28, 2024

This topic describes how to create an AWS data source of the PostgreSQL type.

Prerequisites

  • An AWS PostgreSQL database is created.

  • You have obtained the user name and password for the AWS PostgreSQL database.

Limits

PostgreSQL 8.2 or later is supported.

Procedure

  1. Add the elastic IP address (EIP) of the exclusive resource group for Data Integration or the CIDR block of the vSwitch with which the resource group is associated to the IP address whitelist of the data source that the resource group needs to access.

    Before connecting to AWS PostgreSQL, you need to add the Quick BI IP address to the whitelist of AWS PostgreSQL.

  2. Add a Hologres data source and verify that the data source can be connected.

    1. After you log on to the Quick BI console.

    2. Follow the instructions in the following figure to add a data source

      1. Go to the Create Data Source page.

      2. Select PostgreSQL Data Source.

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      3. Select AWS for Data Source Type.

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  3. In the Configure Connection dialog box, configure the following settings based on your business requirements.

    Feature

    Description

    Name

    The name of the data source. The name is displayed in the data source list.

    The name cannot contain special characters or start or end with spaces.

    Database Address and Port Number

    The public endpoint of the PostgreSQL database. Log on to the Amazon RDS console and obtain the public endpoint in the instance details. Example: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.rds.amazonaws.com.

    Instance

    The name of the database to which you want to connect.

    Schema

    The schema name of the PostgreSQL database.

    Username and Password

    The username and password that are used to log on to the PostgreSQL database.

    SSL

    If SSL is configured for the destination data source, you can select SSL to protect data security.

  4. Click Test Connection to verify that the data source can be connected.

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  5. Click OK.

What to do next

After you add a data source, you can create a dataset and analyze data.