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# postgresql_table – Create, drop, or modify a PostgreSQL table

New in version 2.8.

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- See Also
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## 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.

## See Also

See also

postgresql_sequence – Create, drop, or alter a PostgreSQL sequence
  The official documentation on the postgresql_sequence module.
postgresql_info – Gather information about PostgreSQL servers
  The official documentation on the postgresql_info module.
postgresql_tablespace – Add or remove PostgreSQL tablespaces from remote hosts
  The official documentation on the postgresql_tablespace module.
postgresql_owner – Change an owner of PostgreSQL database object
  The official documentation on the postgresql_owner module.
postgresql_privs – Grant or revoke privileges on PostgreSQL database objects
  The official documentation on the postgresql_privs module.
postgresql_copy – Copy data between a file/program and a PostgreSQL table
  The official documentation on the postgresql_copy module.
CREATE TABLE reference
  Complete reference of the CREATE TABLE command documentation.
ALTER TABLE reference
  Complete reference of the ALTER TABLE command documentation.
DROP TABLE reference
  Complete reference of the DROP TABLE command documentation.
PostgreSQL data types
  Complete reference of the PostgreSQL data types documentation.

## 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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