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Postgres To Google Cloud Storage Operator

The Google Cloud Storage <https://cloud.google.com/storage/>__ (GCS) service is used to store large data from various applications. This page shows how to copy data from Postgres to GCS.

Prerequisite Tasks ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. include:: /operators/_partials/prerequisite_tasks.rst

.. _howto/operator:PostgresToGCSOperator:

PostgresToGCSOperator

:class:`~airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.postgres_to_gcs.PostgresToGCSOperator` allows you to upload
data from Postgres database to GCS.

When you use this operator, you can optionally compress the data being uploaded to gzip format.

Below is an example of using this operator to upload data to GCS.

.. exampleinclude:: /../../google/tests/system/google/cloud/transfers/example_postgres_to_gcs.py
    :language: python
    :dedent: 0
    :start-after: [START howto_operator_postgres_to_gcs]
    :end-before: [END howto_operator_postgres_to_gcs]


Reference
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For further information, look at:

* `Google Cloud Storage Documentation <https://cloud.google.com/storage/>`__