community.postgresql.postgresql_script module – Run PostgreSQL statements from a file

Note

This module is part of the community.postgresql collection (version 3.14.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.postgresql. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.postgresql.postgresql_script.

New in community.postgresql 2.1.0

Synopsis

• Runs arbitrary PostgreSQL statements from a file.

• The module always reports that the state has changed.

• Do NOT run the module against files generated by pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore and other PostgreSQL utilities.

• Use community.postgresql.postgresql_db with state=restore to run queries from files generated by pg_dump/pg_dumpall.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• psycopg2 >= 2.5.1

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
ca_cert aliases: ssl_rootcert string	Specifies the name of a file containing SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate(s). If the file exists, the server’s certificate will be verified to be signed by one of these authorities.
connect_params dictionary added in community.postgresql 2.3.0	Any additional parameters to be passed to libpg. These parameters take precedence. Default: {}
encoding string	Set the client encoding for the current session (e.g. UTF-8). The default is the encoding defined by the database.
login_db aliases: db string	Name of database to connect to and run queries against. The db alias is deprecated and will be removed in version 5.0.0.
login_host aliases: host string	Host running the database. If you have connection issues when using localhost, try to use 127.0.0.1 instead. Default: ""
login_password string	The password this module should use to establish its PostgreSQL session. Default: ""
login_unix_socket aliases: unix_socket string	Path to a Unix domain socket for local connections. Default: ""
login_user aliases: login string	The username this module should use to establish its PostgreSQL session. Default: "postgres"
named_args dictionary	Dictionary of key-value arguments to substitute variable placeholders within the file content. When the value is a list, it will be converted to PostgreSQL array. Mutually exclusive with positional_args.
path path	Path to a SQL script on the target machine. To upload dumps, the preferable way is to use the community.postgresql.postgresql_db module with state=restore.
port aliases: login_port integer	Database port to connect to. Default: 5432
positional_args list / elements=any	List of values to substitute variable placeholders within the file content. When the value is a list, it will be converted to PostgreSQL array. Mutually exclusive with named_args.
search_path list / elements=string	Overrides the list of schemas to search for db objects in.
session_role string	Switch to session_role after connecting. The specified role must be a role that the current login_user is a member of. Permissions checking for SQL commands is carried out as though the session_role were the one that had logged in originally.
ssl_cert path added in community.postgresql 2.4.0	Specifies the file name of the client SSL certificate.
ssl_key path added in community.postgresql 2.4.0	Specifies the location for the secret key used for the client certificate.
ssl_mode string	Determines whether or with what priority a secure SSL TCP/IP connection will be negotiated with the server. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-ssl.html for more information on the modes. Default of prefer matches libpq default. Choices: "allow" "disable" "prefer" ← (default) "require" "verify-ca" "verify-full"
trust_input boolean	If false, check whether a value of session_role is potentially dangerous. It makes sense to use false only when SQL injections via session_role are possible. Choices: false true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: none	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

Notes

Note

• The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the postgres account on the host.

• To avoid “Peer authentication failed for user postgres” error, use postgres user as a become_user.

• This module uses psycopg, a Python PostgreSQL database adapter. You must ensure that psycopg2 >= 2.5.1 or psycopg3 >= 3.1.8 is installed on the host before using this module.

• If the remote host is the PostgreSQL server (which is the default case), then PostgreSQL must also be installed on the remote host.

• For Ubuntu-based systems, install the postgresql, libpq-dev, and python3-psycopg2 packages on the remote host before using this module.

See Also

See also

community.postgresql.postgresql_db

Add or remove PostgreSQL databases from a remote host.

community.postgresql.postgresql_query

Run PostgreSQL queries.

PostgreSQL Schema reference

Complete reference of the PostgreSQL schema documentation.

Examples

# Assuming that the file contains
# SELECT * FROM id_talbe WHERE id = %s,
# '%s' will be substituted with 1
- name: Run query from SQL script using UTF-8 client encoding for session and positional args
  community.postgresql.postgresql_script:
    login_db: test_db
    path: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
    positional_args:
      - 1
    encoding: UTF-8

# Assuming that the file contains
# SELECT * FROM test WHERE id = %(id_val)s AND story = %(story_val)s,
# %-values will be substituted with 1 and 'test'
- name: Select query to test_db with named_args
  community.postgresql.postgresql_script:
    login_db: test_db
    path: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
    named_args:
      id_val: 1
      story_val: test

- block:
  # Assuming that the the file contains
  # SELECT * FROM test_array_table WHERE arr_col1 = %s AND arr_col2 = %s
  # Pass list and string vars as positional_args
  - name: Set vars
    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
      my_list:
      - 1
      - 2
      - 3
      my_arr: '{1, 2, 3}'
  - name: Passing positional_args as arrays
    community.postgresql.postgresql_script:
      path: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
      positional_args:
        - '{{ my_list }}'
        - '{{ my_arr|string }}'

# Assuming that the the file contains
# SELECT * FROM test_table,
# look into app1 schema first, then,
# if the schema doesn't exist or the table hasn't been found there,
# try to find it in the schema public
- name: Select from test using search_path
  community.postgresql.postgresql_script:
    path: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
    search_path:
    - app1
    - public

- block:
    # If you use a variable in positional_args/named_args that can
    # be undefined and you wish to set it as NULL, constructions like
    # "{{ my_var if (my_var is defined) else none | default(none) }}"
    # will not work as expected substituting an empty string instead of NULL.
    # If possible, we suggest using Ansible's DEFAULT_JINJA2_NATIVE configuration
    # (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#default-jinja2-native).
    # Enabling it fixes this problem. If you cannot enable it, the following workaround
    # can be used.
    # You should precheck such a value and define it as NULL when undefined.
    # For example:
    - name: When undefined, set to NULL
      set_fact:
        my_var: NULL
      when: my_var is undefined

    # Then, assuming that the file contains
    # INSERT INTO test_table (col1) VALUES (%s)
    - name: Insert a value using positional arguments
      community.postgresql.postgresql_script:
        path: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
        positional_args:
          - '{{ my_var }}'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
query string	Executed query. When the positional_args or named_args options are used, the query contains all variables that were substituted inside the database connector. Returned: success Sample: "SELECT * FROM bar"
query_result list / elements=dictionary	List of dictionaries in the column:value form representing returned rows. When there are several statements in the script, returns result of the last statement. Returned: success Sample: [{"Column": "Value1"}, {"Column": "Value2"}]
rowcount integer	Number of produced or affected rows. When there are several statements in the script, returns a number of rows affected by the last statement. Returned: changed Sample: 5
statusmessage string	Attribute containing the message returned by the database connector after executing the script content. When there are several statements in the script, returns a message related to the last statement. Returned: success Sample: "INSERT 0 1"

Authors

• Douglas J Hunley (@hunleyd)

• 1. Hart (@jtelcontar)

• Daniel Scharon (@DanScharon)

• Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

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