Connect Soda to PostgreSQL

Last modified on 02-May-25

For Soda to run quality scans on your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source.
To learn how to set up Soda and configure it to connect to your data sources, see Get started.

Connection configuration reference

Install package: soda-postgres

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: postgres
  host: db
  port: "5432"
  username: soda
  password: secret
  database: postgres
  schema: public
  sslmode: prefer

Property	Required	Notes
type	required	Identify the type of data source for Soda.
host	required	Provide a host identifier.
port	required	Provide a port identifier.
username	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
password	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
database	required	Provide an identifier for your database.
schema	optional	Provide an identifier for the schema in which your dataset exists.
sslmode	optional	Provide a value to indicate the type of SSL support: `prefer` `require` `allow` `diable` Default value is `prefer`.

Test the data source connection

To confirm that you have correctly configured the connection details for the data source(s) in your configuration YAML file, use the test-connection command. If you wish, add a -V option to the command to returns results in verbose mode in the CLI.

soda test-connection -d my_datasource -c configuration.yml -V

Supported data types

Category	Data type
text	CHARACTER VARYING, CHARACTER, CHAR, TEXT
number	SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DECIMAL, NUMERIC, VARIABLE, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, SMALLSERIAL, SERIAL, BIGSERIAL
time	TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, TIME WITH TIME ZONE, TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE

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Last modified on 02-May-25