Complete Example

postgres:
  user: 'salt'
  pass: 'super_secret_password'
  db: 'salt_db'

ext_pillar:
  - postgres:
      fromdb:
        query: 'SELECT col1,col2,col3,col4,col5,col6,col7
                  FROM some_random_table
                 WHERE minion_pattern LIKE %s'
        depth: 5
        as_list: True
        with_lists: [1,3]

class salt.pillar.postgres.POSTGRESExtPillar

This class receives and processes the database rows from POSTGRES.

extract_queries(args, kwargs)

This function normalizes the config block into a set of queries we can use. The return is a list of consistently laid out dicts.

salt.pillar.postgres.ext_pillar(minion_id, pillar, *args, **kwargs)

Execute queries against POSTGRES, merge and return as a dict