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# postgresql_query – Run PostgreSQL queries

New in version 2.8.

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- See Also

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## 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. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-ssl.html for more information on the modes. 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

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Felix Archambault (@archf)

- Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

- Will Rouesnel (@wrouesnel)

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