OBIEE support a Postgres DB as DataSource?

Hello,
We are setting up a reporting projet based on OBIEE 11g solution.
Our want to use a PostgreSQL 9.0 DB as a data source instead of an Oracle DB...
Before to start the developement phase we want to check if PostgreSQL is supported by OBIEE(for example in case of an incident can we rely on the client support option bought by the user).
In the documentation we read that we can use a ODBC connector to connect to any database, but in another document we didn't find Postgres among the database data source supported by OBIEE (DB2,MS SQLserver...)
Kind regards
Edited by: 950686 on 3 août 2012 01:21

Tnanks for answering,
I have checked it!!!! but the answer wasn't so clear; in fact we use an ODBC connector to connect to a postgres DB source to feed our report, in this matrix we find two page that dont see the same thing:
Section name: ERP-Apps and Other Datasources/Table: Other DataSource from Oracle===>in this onglet we see that with ODBC we can connect to any database source......
Section name : Non-Oracle DB Certification ===> the postgres don't appear in the supported database source like DB2,MS SQL server...
So we are very confused our need is just to use a database like postgres to home our reporting data source?
Other Comments:
We precise that in the installation steps we have used a Oracle DB schema to home the OBIEE technical schemas(Prerequisite in the installation steps), the next step is to build reports so for that we need to plug into a Postgres DB with an ODBC connector to develope and feed our reports.

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