PostgreSQL connector#



To connect to PostgreSQL, you need:

  • PostgreSQL 9.6 or higher.

  • Network access from the Trino coordinator and workers to PostgreSQL. Port 5432 is the default port.


The connector can query a database on a PostgreSQL server. Create a catalog properties file that specifies the PostgreSQL connector by setting the to postgresql.

For example, to access a database as the postgresqlsdb catalog, create the file etc/catalog/ Replace the connection properties as appropriate for your setup:

The connection-url defines the connection information and parameters to pass to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver. The parameters for the URL are available in the PostgreSQL JDBC driver documentation. Some parameters can have adverse effects on the connector behavior or not work with the connector.

The connection-user and connection-password are typically required and determine the user credentials for the connection, often a service user. You can use secrets to avoid actual values in the catalog properties files.

Multiple PostgreSQL databases or servers#


To add another catalog, simply add another properties file to etc/catalog with a different name, making sure it ends in .properties. For example, if you name the property file, Trino creates a catalog named sales using the configured connector.

Type mapping#

Decimal type handling#

DECIMAL types with precision larger than 38 can be mapped to a Trino DECIMAL by setting the decimal-mapping configuration property or the decimal_mapping session property to allow_overflow. The scale of the resulting type is controlled via the decimal-default-scale configuration property or the decimal-rounding-mode session property. The precision is always 38.

By default, values that require rounding or truncation to fit will cause a failure at runtime. This behavior is controlled via the decimal-rounding-mode configuration property or the decimal_rounding_mode session property, which can be set to UNNECESSARY (the default), UP, DOWN, CEILING, FLOOR, HALF_UP, HALF_DOWN, or HALF_EVEN (see RoundingMode).

Array type handling#

The PostgreSQL array implementation does not support fixed dimensions whereas Trino support only arrays with fixed dimensions. You can configure how the PostgreSQL connector handles arrays with the postgresql.array-mapping configuration property in your catalog file or the array_mapping session property. The following values are accepted for this property:

  • DISABLED (default): array columns are skipped.

  • AS_ARRAY: array columns are interpreted as Trino ARRAY type, for array columns with fixed dimensions.

  • AS_JSON: array columns are interpreted as Trino JSON type, with no constraint on dimensions.

General configuration properties#

The following properties can be used to configure how data types from the connected data source are mapped to Trino data types and how the metadata is cached in Trino.

Property name


Default value


Configure how unsupported column data types are handled:

  • IGNORE, column is not accessible.

  • CONVERT_TO_VARCHAR, column is converted to unbounded VARCHAR.

The respective catalog session property is unsupported_type_handling.



Allow forced mapping of comma separated lists of data types to convert to unbounded VARCHAR


Support case insensitive database and collection names



1 minute


Duration for which metadata, including table and column statistics, is cached

0 (disabled caching)


Cache the fact that metadata, including table and column statistics, is not available


Querying PostgreSQL#




SHOW TABLES FROM postgresql.web;


DESCRIBE postgresql.web.clicks;
SHOW COLUMNS FROM postgresql.web.clicks;


SELECT * FROM postgresql.web.clicks;



The connector supports pushdown for a number of operations:

Aggregate pushdown for the following functions:


The following SQL statements are not yet supported: