postgresql_query – Run PostgreSQL queries

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Runs arbitrary PostgreSQL queries.

  • Can run queries from SQL script files.

  • Does not run against backup files. Use 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
added in 2.9
    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
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 SQL script on the remote host.
Returns result of the last query in the script.
Mutually exclusive with query.
port
integer
Default:
5432
Database port to connect to.

aliases: login_port
positional_args
list
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.
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.
Default of prefer matches libpq default.

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.

See Also

See also

postgresql_db – Add or remove PostgreSQL databases from a remote host

The official documentation on the postgresql_db module.

Examples

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

- name: Select query to db acme with positional arguments and non-default credentials
  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
  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
  postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    query: INSERT INTO test_table (id, story) VALUES (2, 'my_long_story')

- name: Run queries from SQL script
  postgresql_query:
    db: test_db
    path_to_script: /var/lib/pgsql/test.sql
    positional_args:
    - 1

- name: Example of using autocommit parameter
  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.
  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
  set_fact:
    my_list:
    - 1
    - 2
    - 3
    my_arr: '{1, 2, 3}'

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

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
query
string
always
Query that was tried to be executed.

Sample:
SELECT * FROM bar
query_result
list
changed
List of dictionaries in column:value form representing returned rows.

Sample:
[{'Column': 'Value1'}, {'Column': 'Value2'}]
rowcount
integer
changed
Number of affected rows.

Sample:
5
statusmessage
string
always
Attribute containing the message returned by the command.

Sample:
INSERT 0 1


Status

Authors

  • Felix Archambault (@archf)

  • Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

  • Will Rouesnel (@wrouesnel)

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