PostgreSQL

For context on getting started with ingestion, check out our metadata ingestion guide.

Setup

To install this plugin, run pip install 'acryl-datahub[postgres]'.

Capabilities

This plugin extracts the following:

Metadata for databases, schemas, views, and tables
Column types associated with each table
Also supports PostGIS extensions
database_alias (optional) can be used to change the name of database to be ingested

Quickstart recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
  type: postgres
  config:
    # Coordinates
    host_port: localhost:5432
    database: DemoDatabase

    # Credentials
    username: user
    password: pass

    # Options
    database_alias: DatabaseNameToBeIngested

sink:
  # sink configs

Config details

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

Field	Required	Default	Description
`username`			PostgreSQL username.
`password`			PostgreSQL password.
`host_port`	✅		PostgreSQL host URL.
`database`			PostgreSQL database.
`database_alias`			Alias to apply to database when ingesting.
`env`		`"PROD"`	Environment to use in namespace when constructing URNs.
`options.<option>`			Any options specified here will be passed to SQLAlchemy's `create_engine` as kwargs. See https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/engines.html#sqlalchemy.create_engine for details.
`table_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for tables to include in ingestion.
`table_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for tables to exclude from ingestion.
`table_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
`schema_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for schemas to include in ingestion.
`schema_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for schemas to exclude from ingestion.
`schema_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
`view_pattern.allow`			List of regex patterns for views to include in ingestion.
`view_pattern.deny`			List of regex patterns for views to exclude from ingestion.
`view_pattern.ignoreCase`		`True`	Whether to ignore case sensitivity during pattern matching.
`include_tables`		`True`	Whether tables should be ingested.
`include_views`		`True`	Whether views should be ingested.

Compatibility

Coming soon!

Questions

If you've got any questions on configuring this source, feel free to ping us on our Slack!

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