community.postgresql.postgresql_ping – Check remote PostgreSQL server availability

Note

This plugin is part of the community.postgresql collection (version 1.5.0).

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.

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

Synopsis

  • Simple module to check remote PostgreSQL server availability.

Requirements

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

  • psycopg2

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
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 a database to connect to.

aliases: login_db
login_host
string
Host running the database.
If you have connection issues when using localhost, try to use 127.0.0.1 instead.
login_password
string
The password this module should use to establish its PostgreSQL session.
login_unix_socket
string
Path to a Unix domain socket for local connections.
login_user
string
Default:
"postgres"
The username this module should use to establish its PostgreSQL session.
port
integer
Default:
5432
Database port to connect to.

aliases: login_port
session_role
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.postgresql
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_info

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

Examples

# PostgreSQL ping dbsrv server from the shell:
# ansible dbsrv -m postgresql_ping

# In the example below you need to generate certificates previously.
# See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-ssl.html for more information.
- name: PostgreSQL ping dbsrv server using not default credentials and ssl
  community.postgresql.postgresql_ping:
    db: protected_db
    login_host: dbsrv
    login_user: secret
    login_password: secret_pass
    ca_cert: /root/root.crt
    ssl_mode: verify-full

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
is_available
boolean
always
PostgreSQL server availability.

Sample:
True
server_version
dictionary
always
PostgreSQL server version.

Sample:
{'full': '13.2', 'major': 13, 'minor': 2, 'raw': 'PostgreSQL 13.2 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'}


Authors

  • Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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