vertica_configuration - Updates Vertica configuration parameters.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

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

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
cluster	Default: "localhost"	Name of the Vertica cluster.
db		Name of the Vertica database.
login_password		The password used to authenticate with.
login_user	Default: "dbadmin"	The username used to authenticate with.
name required		Name of the parameter to update. aliases: parameter
port	Default: 5433	Vertica cluster port to connect to.
value required		Value of the parameter to be set.

Note

The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the dbadmin account on the host.
This module uses pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC and pyodbc is installed on the host and properly configured.
Configuring unixODBC for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so to be added to the Vertica section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64 and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16 to be added to the Driver section of either /etc/vertica.ini or $HOME/.vertica.ini.

- name: updating load_balance_policy
  vertica_configuration: name=failovertostandbyafter value='8 hours'

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