community.postgresql.postgresql_table module – Create, drop, or modify a PostgreSQL table

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_table.

Synopsis

• Allows to create, drop, truncate a table, or change some table attributes.

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.
cascade boolean	Automatically drop objects that depend on the table (such as views). Used with state=absent only. Choices: false ← (default) true
columns list / elements=string	Columns that are needed.
connect_params dictionary added in community.postgresql 2.3.0	Any additional parameters to be passed to libpg. These parameters take precedence. Default: {}
including string	Keywords that are used with like parameter, may be DEFAULTS, CONSTRAINTS, INDEXES, STORAGE, COMMENTS or ALL. Needs like specified. Mutually exclusive with columns, rename, and truncate.
like string	Create a table like another table (with similar DDL). Mutually exclusive with columns, rename, and truncate.
login_db aliases: db string	Name of database to connect and where the table will be created. The db alias is deprecated and will be removed in version 5.0.0. Default: ""
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"
owner string	Set a table owner.
port aliases: login_port integer	Database port to connect to. Default: 5432
rename string	DEPRECATED (see the discussion). This option will be removed in version 5.0.0. To rename a table, use the community.postgresql.postgresql_query module. New table name. Mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, truncate, and storage_params.
session_role string	Switch to session_role after connecting. The specified session_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"
state string	The table state. state=absent is mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, truncate, storage_params and, rename. Choices: "absent" "present" ← (default)
storage_params list / elements=string	Storage parameters like fillfactor, autovacuum_vacuum_treshold, etc. Mutually exclusive with rename and truncate.
table aliases: name string / required	Table name.
tablespace string	Set a tablespace for the table.
truncate boolean	Truncate a table. Mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, rename, and storage_params. Choices: false ← (default) true
trust_input boolean added in community.postgresql 0.2.0	If false, check whether values of parameters are potentially dangerous. It makes sense to use false only when SQL injections are possible. Choices: false true ← (default)
unlogged boolean	Create an unlogged table. Choices: false ← (default) true

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

Notes

Note

• If you do not pass db parameter, tables will be created in the database named postgres.

• PostgreSQL allows to create columnless table, so columns param is optional.

• Unlogged tables are available from PostgreSQL server version 9.1.

• If the table already exists and columns are specified they will be ignored. Columns can not be altered on an existing table.

• 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_sequence

Create, drop, or alter a PostgreSQL sequence.

community.postgresql.postgresql_idx

Create or drop indexes from a PostgreSQL database.

community.postgresql.postgresql_info

Gather information about PostgreSQL servers.

community.postgresql.postgresql_tablespace

Add or remove PostgreSQL tablespaces from remote hosts.

community.postgresql.postgresql_owner

Change an owner of PostgreSQL database object.

community.postgresql.postgresql_privs

Grant or revoke privileges on PostgreSQL database objects.

community.postgresql.postgresql_copy

Copy data between a file/program and a PostgreSQL table.

CREATE TABLE reference

Complete reference of the CREATE TABLE command documentation.

ALTER TABLE reference

Complete reference of the ALTER TABLE command documentation.

DROP TABLE reference

Complete reference of the DROP TABLE command documentation.

PostgreSQL data types

Complete reference of the PostgreSQL data types documentation.

Examples

- name: Create tbl2 in the acme database with the DDL like tbl1 with testuser as an owner
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    login_db: acme
    name: tbl2
    like: tbl1
    owner: testuser

- name: Create tbl2 in the acme database and tablespace ssd with the DDL like tbl1 including comments and indexes
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    login_db: acme
    table: tbl2
    like: tbl1
    including: comments, indexes
    tablespace: ssd

- name: Create test_table with several columns in ssd tablespace with fillfactor=10 and autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: test_table
    columns:
    - id bigserial primary key
    - num bigint
    - stories text
    tablespace: ssd
    storage_params:
    - fillfactor=10
    - autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1

- name: Create an unlogged table in schema acme
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: acme.useless_data
    columns: waste_id int
    unlogged: true

- name: Set owner to someuser
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    owner: someuser

- name: Change tablespace of foo table to new_tablespace and set owner to new_user
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    tablespace: new_tablespace
    owner: new_user

- name: Truncate table foo
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    truncate: true

- name: Drop table foo from schema acme
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: acme.foo
    state: absent

- name: Drop table bar cascade
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: bar
    state: absent
    cascade: true

- name: Create table with composite primary key
  community.postgresql.postgresql_table:
    name: composite_pk_table
    columns:
    - id bigserial
    - num bigint
    - primary key (id, num)

Return Values

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

Key	Description
owner string	Table owner. Returned: success Sample: "postgres"
queries string	List of executed queries. Returned: success Sample: "['CREATE TABLE \"test_table\" (id bigint)']"
state string	Table state. Returned: success Sample: "present"
storage_params list / elements=string	Storage parameters. Returned: success Sample: ["fillfactor=100", "autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1"]
table string	Name of a table. Returned: success Sample: "foo"
tablespace string	Tablespace. Returned: success Sample: "ssd_tablespace"

Authors

• Andrei Klychkov (@Andersson007)

Collection links

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