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postgresql_table – Create, drop, or modify a PostgreSQL table

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
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Examples
Return Values
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Synopsis

Allows to create, drop, rename, truncate a table, or change some table attributes.

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
cascade boolean added in 2.9	Choices: no ← yes	Automatically drop objects that depend on the table (such as views). Used with state=absent only.
columns list / elements=string		Columns that are needed.
db string		Name of database to connect and where the table will be created. aliases: login_db
including string		Keywords that are used with like parameter, may be DEFAULTS, CONSTRAINTS, INDEXES, STORAGE, COMMENTS or ALL. Needs like specified. Mutually exclusive with columns, rename, and truncate.
like string		Create a table like another table (with similar DDL). Mutually exclusive with columns, rename, and truncate.
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.
owner string		Set a table owner.
port integer	Default: 5432	Database port to connect to. aliases: login_port
rename string		New table name. Mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, truncate, and storage_params.
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.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	The table state. state=absent is mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, truncate, storage_params and, rename.
storage_params list / elements=string		Storage parameters like fillfactor, autovacuum_vacuum_treshold, etc. Mutually exclusive with rename and truncate.
table string / required		Table name. aliases: name
tablespace string		Set a tablespace for the table.
truncate boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Truncate a table. Mutually exclusive with tablespace, owner, unlogged, like, including, columns, rename, and storage_params.
unlogged boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Create an unlogged table.

Notes

Note

If you do not pass db parameter, tables will be created in the database named postgres.
PostgreSQL allows to create columnless table, so columns param is optional.
Unlogged tables are available from PostgreSQL server version 9.1.
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.

Examples

- name: Create tbl2 in the acme database with the DDL like tbl1 with testuser as an owner
  postgresql_table:
    db: acme
    name: tbl2
    like: tbl1
    owner: testuser

- name: Create tbl2 in the acme database and tablespace ssd with the DDL like tbl1 including comments and indexes
  postgresql_table:
    db: acme
    table: tbl2
    like: tbl1
    including: comments, indexes
    tablespace: ssd

- name: Create test_table with several columns in ssd tablespace with fillfactor=10 and autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1
  postgresql_table:
    name: test_table
    columns:
    - id bigserial primary key
    - num bigint
    - stories text
    tablespace: ssd
    storage_params:
    - fillfactor=10
    - autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1

- name: Create an unlogged table in schema acme
  postgresql_table:
    name: acme.useless_data
    columns: waste_id int
    unlogged: true

- name: Rename table foo to bar
  postgresql_table:
    table: foo
    rename: bar

- name: Rename table foo from schema acme to bar
  postgresql_table:
    name: acme.foo
    rename: bar

- name: Set owner to someuser
  postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    owner: someuser

- name: Change tablespace of foo table to new_tablespace and set owner to new_user
  postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    tablespace: new_tablespace
    owner: new_user

- name: Truncate table foo
  postgresql_table:
    name: foo
    truncate: yes

- name: Drop table foo from schema acme
  postgresql_table:
    name: acme.foo
    state: absent

- name: Drop table bar cascade
  postgresql_table:
    name: bar
    state: absent
    cascade: yes

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
owner string	always	Table owner. Sample: postgres
queries string	always	List of executed queries. Sample: ['CREATE TABLE "test_table" (id bigint)']
state string	always	Table state. Sample: present
storage_params list	always	Storage parameters. Sample: ['fillfactor=100', 'autovacuum_analyze_threshold=1']
table string	always	Name of a table. Sample: foo
tablespace string	always	Tablespace. Sample: ssd_tablespace

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

Andrei Klychkov (@Andersson007)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/postgresql_table_module.html