community.postgresql.postgresql_query – Run PostgreSQL queries

Note

This plugin is part of the community.postgresql collection (version 1.2.0).

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

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

Synopsis

  • Runs arbitrary PostgreSQL queries.

  • Can run queries from SQL script files.

  • Does not run against backup files. Use community.postgresql.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
as_single_query
boolean
added in 1.1.0 of community.postgresql
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If yes, when reading from the path_to_script file, executes its whole content in a single query.
When yes, the query_all_results return value contains only the result of the last statement.
Whether the state is reported as changed or not is determined by the last statement of the file.
Used only when path_to_script is specified, otherwise ignored.
If set to no, the script can contain only semicolon-separated queries. (see the path_to_script option documentation).
The default value is no.
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.postgresql
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.
To run scripts containing objects with semicolons (for example, function and procedure definitions), use as_single_query=yes.
To upload dumps or to execute other complex scripts, the preferable way is to use the community.postgresql.postgresql_db module with state=restore.
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.postgresql
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.
Default of prefer matches libpq default.
trust_input
boolean
added in 0.2.0 of community.postgresql
    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

  • Supports check_mode.

  • 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

community.postgresql.postgresql_db

The official documentation on the community.postgresql.postgresql_db module.

PostgreSQL Schema reference

Complete reference of the PostgreSQL schema documentation.

Examples

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

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

# If your script contains semicolons as parts of separate objects
# like functions, procedures, and so on, use "as_single_query: yes"
- name: Run queries from SQL script using UTF-8 client encoding for session
  community.postgresql.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.postgresql.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.postgresql.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.postgresql.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.postgresql.postgresql_query:
    query: SELECT * FROM test_array_table
    search_path:
    - app1
    - public

# If you use a variable in positional_args / named_args that can
# be undefined and you wish to set it as NULL, the 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 to use 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:
- name: Insert a value using positional arguments
  community.postgresql.postgresql_query:
    query: INSERT INTO test_table (col1) VALUES (%s)
    positional_args:
    - '{{ my_var }}'

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)