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vertica_schema - Adds or removes Vertica database schema and roles.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • Adds or removes Vertica database schema and, optionally, roles with schema access privileges.
  • A schema will not be removed until all the objects have been dropped.
  • In such a situation, if the module tries to remove the schema it will fail and only remove roles created for the schema if they have no dependencies.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
cluster
 no localhost
Name of the Vertica cluster.
create_roles
 no
Comma separated list of roles to create and grant usage and create access to the schema.

aliases: create_role
db
 no
Name of the Vertica database.
login_password
 no
The password used to authenticate with.
login_user
 no dbadmin
The username used to authenticate with.
name
 yes
Name of the schema to add or remove.
owner
 no
Name of the user to set as owner of the schema.
port
 no 5433
Vertica cluster port to connect to.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Whether to create present, or drop absent a schema.
usage_roles
 no
Comma separated list of roles to create and grant usage access to the schema.

aliases: usage_role

Examples

- name: creating a new vertica schema
  vertica_schema: name=schema_name db=db_name state=present

- name: creating a new schema with specific schema owner
  vertica_schema: name=schema_name owner=dbowner db=db_name state=present

- name: creating a new schema with roles
  vertica_schema:
    name=schema_name
    create_roles=schema_name_all
    usage_roles=schema_name_ro,schema_name_rw
    db=db_name
    state=present

Notes

Note

  • The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or sudo’ing to the dbadmin account on the host.
  • This module uses pyodbc, a Python ODBC database adapter. You must ensure that unixODBC and pyodbc is installed on the host and properly configured.
  • Configuring unixODBC for Vertica requires Driver = /opt/vertica/lib64/libverticaodbc.so to be added to the Vertica section of either /etc/odbcinst.ini or $HOME/.odbcinst.ini and both ErrorMessagesPath = /opt/vertica/lib64 and DriverManagerEncoding = UTF-16 to be added to the Driver section of either /etc/vertica.ini or $HOME/.vertica.ini.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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