community.postgresql.postgresql_membership module – Add or remove PostgreSQL roles from groups

Note

This module is part of the community.postgresql collection (version 3.9.0).

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_membership.

Synopsis

• Adds or removes PostgreSQL roles from groups (other roles).

• Users are roles with login privilege.

• Groups are PostgreSQL roles usually without LOGIN privilege.

• Common use case:

• 1. add a new group (groups) by community.postgresql.postgresql_user module with role_attr_flags=NOLOGIN

• 2. grant them desired privileges by community.postgresql.postgresql_privs module

• 3. add desired PostgreSQL users to the new group (groups) by this module

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: {}
db aliases: login_db string	Name of database to connect to.
fail_on_role boolean	If true, fail when group or target_role doesn’t exist. If false, just warn and continue. Choices: false true ← (default)
groups aliases: group, source_role, source_roles list / elements=string / required	The list of groups (roles) that need to be granted to or revoked from target_roles.
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"
port aliases: login_port integer	Database port to connect to. Default: 5432
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	Membership state. state=present implies the groupsmust be granted to target_roles. state=absent implies the groups must be revoked from target_roles. state=exact implies that target_roles will be members of only the groups (available since community.postgresql 2.2.0). Any other groups will be revoked from target_roles. Choices: "absent" "exact" "present" ← (default)
target_roles aliases: target_role, users, user list / elements=string / required	The list of target roles (groups will be granted to them).
trust_input boolean added in community.postgresql 0.2.0	If false, check whether values of parameters groups, target_roles, session_role are potentially dangerous. It makes sense to use false only when SQL injections via the parameters are possible. Choices: false true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	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_user

Create, alter, or remove a user (role) from a PostgreSQL server instance.

community.postgresql.postgresql_privs

Grant or revoke privileges on PostgreSQL database objects.

community.postgresql.postgresql_owner

Change an owner of PostgreSQL database object.

PostgreSQL role membership reference

Complete reference of the PostgreSQL role membership documentation.

PostgreSQL role attributes reference

Complete reference of the PostgreSQL role attributes documentation.

Examples

- name: Grant role read_only to alice and bob
  community.postgresql.postgresql_membership:
    group: read_only
    target_roles:
    - alice
    - bob
    state: present

# you can also use target_roles: alice,bob,etc to pass the role list

- name: Revoke role read_only and exec_func from bob. Ignore if roles don't exist
  community.postgresql.postgresql_membership:
    groups:
    - read_only
    - exec_func
    target_role: bob
    fail_on_role: false
    state: absent

- name: >
    Make sure alice and bob are members only of marketing and sales.
    If they are members of other groups, they will be removed from those groups
  community.postgresql.postgresql_membership:
    group:
    - marketing
    - sales
    target_roles:
    - alice
    - bob
    state: exact

- name: Make sure alice and bob do not belong to any groups
  community.postgresql.postgresql_membership:
    group: []
    target_roles:
    - alice
    - bob
    state: exact

Return Values

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

Key	Description
granted dictionary	Dict of granted groups and roles. Returned: if state=present Sample: {"ro_group": ["alice", "bob"]}
queries string	List of executed queries. Returned: success Sample: "['GRANT \"user_ro\" TO \"alice\"']"
revoked dictionary	Dict of revoked groups and roles. Returned: if state=absent Sample: {"ro_group": ["alice", "bob"]}
state string	Membership state that tried to be set. Returned: success Sample: "present"

Authors

• Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

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