postgresql_ping – Check remote PostgreSQL server availability

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postgresql_ping – Check remote PostgreSQL server availability

New in version 2.8.


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.

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.

port

integer

Default:

5432

Database port to connect to.


aliases: login_port

ssl_mode

string

  • 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_info – Gather information about PostgreSQL servers
The official documentation on the 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
  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:

{'major': 10, 'minor': 1}




Status

Authors

  • Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

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