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Authentication

This provider requires authentication.

  • username: Postgres username (required: True, sensitive: False)
  • password: Postgres password (required: True, sensitive: True)
  • host: Postgres hostname (required: True, sensitive: False)
  • database: Postgres database name (required: False, sensitive: False)
  • port: Postgres port (required: False, sensitive: False)

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In workflows

This provider can be used in workflows.

As “step” to query data, example:

steps:
    - name: Query postgres
      provider: postgres
      config: "{{ provider.my_provider_name }}"
      with:
        query: {value}

As “action” to make changes or update data, example:

actions:
    - name: Query postgres
      provider: postgres
      config: "{{ provider.my_provider_name }}"
      with:
        query: {value}

Check the following workflow example:

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Connecting with the Provider

In order to connect to the Postgres database, you will need to create a new user with the required permissions. Here’s how you can do this:

  1. Connect to the Postgresql server as a user with sufficient privileges to create a new user.
  2. Run the following command to create a new user: CREATE USER '<username>' WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '<password>';
  3. Run the following command to create a database: CREATE DATABASE '<yourdbname>';;
  4. Grant the necessary permissions to the new user by running the following command: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <database>.* TO '<username>';

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Notes