community.general.postgresql_query – Run PostgreSQL queries¶

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.postgresql_query.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
See Also
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis ¶

Runs arbitrary PostgreSQL queries.
Can run queries from SQL script files.
Does not run against backup files. Use community.general.postgresql_db with state=restore to run queries on files made by pg_dump/pg_dumpall utilities.

Requirements ¶

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

psycopg2

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
autocommit boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Execute in autocommit mode when the query can't be run inside a transaction block (e.g., VACUUM). Mutually exclusive with check_mode.
ca_cert 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. aliases: ssl_rootcert
db string		Name of database to connect to and run queries against. aliases: login_db
encoding string added in 0.2.0 of community.general		Set the client encoding for the current session (e.g. `UTF-8`). The default is the encoding defined by the database.
login_host string		Host running the database.
login_password string		The password used to authenticate with.
login_unix_socket string		Path to a Unix domain socket for local connections.
login_user string	Default: "postgres"	The username used to authenticate with.
named_args dictionary		Dictionary of key-value arguments to pass to the query. When the value is a list, it will be converted to PostgreSQL array. Mutually exclusive with positional_args.
path_to_script path		Path to a SQL script on the target machine. If the script contains several queries, they must be semicolon-separated. Mutually exclusive with query.
port integer	Default: 5432	Database port to connect to. aliases: login_port
positional_args list / elements=raw		List of values to be passed as positional arguments to the query. When the value is a list, it will be converted to PostgreSQL array. Mutually exclusive with named_args.
query string		SQL query to run. Variables can be escaped with psycopg2 syntax http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/usage.html.
search_path list / elements=string added in 1.0.0 of community.general		List of schema names to look in.
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_mode string	Choices: allow disable prefer ← require verify-ca verify-full	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.
trust_input boolean added in 0.2.0 of community.general	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, check whether a value of session_role is potentially dangerous. It makes sense to use `no` only when SQL injections via session_role are possible.

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 psycopg2, a Python PostgreSQL database adapter. You must ensure that psycopg2 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 python-psycopg2 packages on the remote host before using this module.
The ca_cert parameter requires at least Postgres version 8.4 and psycopg2 version 2.4.3.

Examples ¶

- name: Simple select query to acme db
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: acme
    query: SELECT version()

- name: Select query to db acme with positional arguments and non-default credentials
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: acme
    login_user: django
    login_password: mysecretpass
    query: SELECT * FROM acme WHERE id = %s AND story = %s
    positional_args:
    - 1
    - test

- name: Select query to test_db with named_args
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    query: SELECT * FROM test WHERE id = %(id_val)s AND story = %(story_val)s
    named_args:
      id_val: 1
      story_val: test

- name: Insert query to test_table in db test_db
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    query: INSERT INTO test_table (id, story) VALUES (2, 'my_long_story')

- name: Run queries from SQL script using UTF-8 client encoding for session
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    path_to_script: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
    positional_args:
    - 1
    encoding: UTF-8

- name: Example of using autocommit parameter
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    query: VACUUM
    autocommit: yes

- name: >
    Insert data to the column of array type using positional_args.
    Note that we use quotes here, the same as for passing JSON, etc.
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    query: INSERT INTO test_table (array_column) VALUES (%s)
    positional_args:
    - '{1,2,3}'

# 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: Select from test table by passing positional_args as arrays
  community.general.postgresql_query:
    query: SELECT * FROM test_array_table WHERE arr_col1 = %s AND arr_col2 = %s
    positional_args:
    - '{{ my_list }}'
    - '{{ my_arr|string }}'

# Select from test table looking 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.general.postgresql_query:
    query: SELECT * FROM test_array_table
    search_path:
    - app1
    - public

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
query string	always	Executed query. When reading several queries from a file, it contains only the last one. Sample: SELECT * FROM bar
query_all_results list / elements=list	always	List containing results of all queries executed (one sublist for every query). Useful when reading several queries from a file. Sample: [[{'Column': 'Value1'}, {'Column': 'Value2'}], [{'Column': 'Value1'}, {'Column': 'Value2'}]]
query_list list / elements=string	always	List of executed queries. Useful when reading several queries from a file. Sample: ['SELECT * FROM foo', 'SELECT * FROM bar']
query_result list / elements=dictionary	always	List of dictionaries in column:value form representing returned rows. When running queries from a file, returns result of the last query. Sample: [{'Column': 'Value1'}, {'Column': 'Value2'}]
rowcount integer	changed	Number of produced or affected rows. When using a script with multiple queries, it contains a total number of produced or affected rows. Sample: 5
statusmessage string	always	Attribute containing the message returned by the command. When reading several queries from a file, it contains a message of the last one. Sample: INSERT 0 1

Authors¶

Felix Archambault (@archf)
Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)
Will Rouesnel (@wrouesnel)

community.general.postgresql_query – Run PostgreSQL queries¶

Synopsis¶

Requirements¶

Parameters¶

Notes¶

See Also¶

Examples¶

Return Values¶