Connecting to pgEdge Cloud

Your pgEdge account type determines the type of connections you can establish with pgEdge Cloud:

• Enterprise Edition accounts can connect to pgEdge Cloud clusters with SSH (port 22), a PostgreSQL client (port 5432), or via https (port 443).
• Developer Edition accounts can use a PostgreSQL client to connect to their database on port 5432.

Any client that can negotiate a connection using libpq can connect to the PostgreSQL server (port 5432) on a pgEdge Cloud database; this applies to custom clients as well. All authenticating clients must:

• require an SSL connection.
• disable GSS encoding (gssencmode (opens in a new tab)).
• use an SSH key when connecting.

Additionally, you must open ports for connection when creating your cluster.

Connecting to a Cluster

You can connect to a pgEdge Cloud cluster with SSH. IP addresses for each node in your cluster are displayed on the Nodes tab of the Cluster information dialog.

For detailed information about using SSH to connect to a node, see Connecting with ssh.

Connecting to a Database

You can use any PostgreSQL client that meets the connection criteria detailed above to connect to a PostgreSQL database. In this guide, we'll walk you through connecting with the psql or pgAdmin clients.