Trying to use postgresql as backend for airflow (v1.10.5) on centos7 machine (following this article: https://www.ryanmerlin.com/2019/07/apache-airflow-installation-on-ubuntu-18-04-18-10/) and seeing error
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "airflow" My settings on the machine are... [airflow@airflowetl airflow]$ psql airflow psql (9.2.24) Type "help" for help. airflow=> \du List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of -----------+------------------------------------------------+----------- airflow | | {} postgres | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication | {} airflow-> \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- airflow | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =Tc/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres+ | | | | | airflow=CTc/postgres postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres airflow=> \c airflow You are now connected to database "airflow" as user "airflow". airflow=> \dt No relations found. [root@airflowetl airflow]# cat /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf ....# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections onlylocal all all peer# IPv4 local connections:#host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident host all all 0.0.0.0/0 trust# IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 ident# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the# replication privilege.#local replication postgres peer#host replication postgres 127.0.0.1/32 ident#host replication postgres ::1/128 ident [root@airflowetl airflow]# cat /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf ....# — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — # CONNECTIONS AND AUTHENTICATION# — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — # — Connection Settings -#listen_addresses = ‘localhost’ # what IP address(es) to listen on; listen_addresses = ‘*’ # for Airflow connection [airflow@airflowetl airflow]$ cat airflow.cfg .... [core] ....# The executor class that airflow should use. Choices include# SequentialExecutor, LocalExecutor, CeleryExecutor, DaskExecutor, KubernetesExecutor#executor = SequentialExecutor executor = LocalExecutor # The SqlAlchemy connection string to the metadata database.# SqlAlchemy supports many different database engine, more information# their website#sql_alchemy_conn = sqlite:////home/airflow/airflow/airflow.db sql_alchemy_conn = postgresql+psycopg2://airflow:mypassword@localhost:5432/airflow and not quite sure what could be going wrong here. Using the password from the sql_alchemy_conn string, I am able to do "psql -U airflow --password" and login successfully, so not sure what the auth faiure is for. Anyone have any further debugging suggestions or can see the error here? -- This electronic message is intended only for the named recipient, and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above, and delete and destroy all copies of this message. Thank you.