postgresql

Table of Contents

1. Overview - What is the PostgreSQL module?
2. Module Description - What does the module do?
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with PostgreSQL module
4. Usage - How to use the module for various tasks
5. Upgrading - Guide for upgrading from older revisions of this module
6. Reference - The classes, defines,functions and facts available in this module
7. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
8. Development - Guide for contributing to the module
9. Disclaimer - Licensing information
10. Transfer Notice - Notice of authorship change
11. Contributors - List of module contributors

Overview

The PostgreSQL module allows you to easily manage postgres databases with Puppet.

Module Description

PostgreSQL is a high-performance, free, open-source relational database server. The postgresql module allows you to manage PostgreSQL packages and services on several operating systems, while also supporting basic management of PostgreSQL databases and users. The module offers support for managing firewall for postgres ports on RedHat-based distros, as well as support for basic management of common security settings.

Setup

What puppetlabs-PostgreSQL affects:

• package/service/configuration files for PostgreSQL
• listened-to ports
• system firewall (optional)
• IP and mask (optional)

Introductory Questions

The postgresql module offers many security configuration settings. Before getting started, you will want to consider:

• Do you want/need to allow remote connections?
  • If yes, what about TCP connections?
• Would you prefer to work around your current firewall settings or overwrite some of them?
• How restrictive do you want the database superuser's permissions to be?

Your answers to these questions will determine which of the module's parameters you'll want to specify values for.

###Configuring the server

The main configuration you'll need to do will be around the postgresql::server class. The default parameters are reasonable, but fairly restrictive regarding permissions for who can connect and from where. To manage a PostgreSQL server with sane defaults:

class { 'postgresql::server': }

For a more customized configuration:

class { 'postgresql::server':
  ip_mask_deny_postgres_user => '0.0.0.0/32',
  ip_mask_allow_all_users    => '0.0.0.0/0',
  listen_addresses           => '*',
  ipv4acls                   => ['hostssl all johndoe 192.168.0.0/24 cert'],
  manage_firewall            => true,
  postgres_password          => 'TPSrep0rt!',
}

Once you've completed your configuration of postgresql::server, you can test out your settings from the command line:

$ psql -h localhost -U postgres
$ psql -h my.postgres.server -U

If you get an error message from these commands, it means that your permissions are set in a way that restricts access from where you're trying to connect. That might be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your goals.

For more details about server configuration parameters consult the PostgreSQL Runtime Configuration docs.

Usage

###Creating a database

There are many ways to set up a postgres database using the postgresql::server::db class. For instance, to set up a database for PuppetDB:

class { 'postgresql::server': }

postgresql::server::db { 'mydatabasename':
  user     => 'mydatabaseuser',
  password => postgresql_password('mypassword', 'mydatabasename'),
}

###Managing users, roles and permissions

To manage users, roles and permissions:

class { 'postgresql::server': }

postgresql::server::role { 'marmot':
  password_hash => postgresql_password('foo', 'mydb'),
}

postgresql::server::database_grant { 'test1':
  privilege => 'ALL',
  db        => 'test1',
  role      => 'marmot',
}

postgresql::server::table_grant { 'my_table of test2':
  privilege => 'ALL',
  table     => 'my_table',
  db        => 'test2',
  role      => 'marmot',
}

In this example, you would grant ALL privileges on the test1 database and on the my_table table of the test2 database to the user or group specified by dan.

At this point, you would just need to plunk these database name/username/password values into your PuppetDB config files, and you are good to go.

Upgrading

###Upgrading from 2.x to version 3

Note: if you are upgrading for 2.x, you must read this, as just about everything has changed.

Version 3 was a major rewrite to fix some internal dependency issues, and to make the new Public API more clear. As a consequence a lot of things have changed for version 3 and older revisions that we will try to outline here.

####Server specific objects now moved under postgresql::server:: namespace

To restructure server specific elements under the postgresql::server:: namespaces the following objects were renamed as such:

• postgresql::database -> postgresql::server::database
• postgresql::database_grant -> postgresql::server::database_grant
• postgresql::db -> postgresql::server::db
• postgresql::grant -> postgresql::server::grant
• postgresql::pg_hba_rule -> postgresql::server::pg_hba_rule
• postgresql::plperl -> postgresql::server::plperl
• postgresql::contrib -> postgresql::server::contrib
• postgresql::role -> postgresql::server::role
• postgresql::table_grant -> postgresql::server::table_grant
• postgresql::tablespace -> postgresql::server::tablespace

####New postgresql::server::config_entry resource for managing configuration

Previously we used the file_line resource to modify postgresql.conf. This new revision now adds a new resource named postgresql::server::config_entry for managing this file. For example:

postgresql::server::config_entry { 'check_function_bodies':
  value => 'off',
}

If you were using file_line for this purpose, you should change to this new methodology.

####postgresql_puppet_extras.conf has been removed

Now that we have a methodology for managing postgresql.conf, and due to concerns over the file management methodology using an exec { 'touch ...': } as a way to create an empty file the existing postgresql_puppet_extras.conf file is no longer managed by this module.

If you wish to recreate this methodology yourself, use this pattern:

class { 'postgresql::server': }

$extras = "/tmp/include.conf"

file { $extras:
  content => 'max_connections = 123',
  notify  => Class['postgresql::server::service'],
}->
postgresql::server::config_entry { 'include':
  value   => $extras,
}

####All uses of the parameter charset changed to encoding

Since PostgreSQL uses the terminology encoding not charset the parameter has been made consisent across all classes and resources.

####The postgresql base class is no longer how you set globals

The old global override pattern was less then optimal so it has been fixed, however we decided to demark this properly by specifying these overrides in the class postgresql::global. Consult the documentation for this class now to see what options are available.

Also, some parameter elements have been moved between this and the postgresql::server class where it made sense.

####config_hash parameter collapsed for the postgresql::server class

Because the config_hash was really passing data through to what was in effect an internal class (postgresql::config). And since we don't want this kind of internal exposure the parameters were collapsed up into the postgresql::server class directly.

####Lots of changes to 'private' or 'undocumented' classes

If you were using these before, these have changed names. You should only use what is documented in this README.md, and if you don't have what you need you should raise a patch to add that feature to a public API. All internal classes now have a comment at the top indicating them as private to make sure the message is clear that they are not supported as Public API.

####pg_hba_conf_defaults parameter included to turn off default pg_hba rules

The defaults should be good enough for most cases (if not raise a bug) but if you simply need an escape hatch, this setting will turn off the defaults. If you want to do this, it may affect the rest of the module so make sure you replace the rules with something that continues operation.

####postgresql::database_user has now been removed

Use postgresql::server::role instead.

####postgresql::psql resource has now been removed

Use postgresql_psql instead. In the future we may recreate this as a wrapper to add extra capability, but it will not match the old behaviour.

####postgresql_default_version fact has now been removed

It didn't make sense to have this logic in a fact any more, the logic has been moved into postgresql::params.

####ripienaar/concat is no longer used, instead we use puppetlabs/concat

The older concat module is now deprecated and moved into the puppetlabs/concat namespace. Functionality is more or less identical, but you may need to intervene during the installing of this package - as both use the same concat namespace.

Reference

The postgresql module comes with many options for configuring the server. While you are unlikely to use all of the below settings, they allow you a decent amount of control over your security settings.

Classes:

• postgresql::client
• postgresql::globals
• postgresql::lib::devel
• postgresql::lib::java
• postgresql::lib::python
• postgresql::server
• postgresql::server::plperl
• postgresql::server::contrib

Resources:

• postgresql::server::config_entry
• postgresql::server::db
• postgresql::server::database
• postgresql::server::database_grant
• postgresql::server::pg_hba_rule
• postgresql::server::role
• postgresql::server::table_grant
• postgresql::server::tablespace
• postgresql::validate_db_connection

Functions:

• postgresql_password
• postgresql_acls_to_resources_hash

###Class: postgresql::globals Note: most server specific defaults should be overriden in the postgresql::server class. This class should only be used if you are using a non-standard OS or if you are changing elements such as version or manage_package_repo that can only be changed here.

This class allows you to configure the main settings for this module in a global way, to be used by the other classes and defined resources. On its own it does nothing.

For example, if you wanted to overwrite the default locale and encoding for all classes you could use the following combination:

class { 'postgresql::global':
  encoding => 'UTF8',
  locale   => 'en_NG',
}->
class { 'postgresql::server':
}

That would make the encoding and locale the default for all classes and defined resources in this module.

If you want to use the upstream PostgreSQL packaging, and be specific about the version you wish to download, you could use something like this:

class { 'postgresql::globals':
  manage_package_repo => true,
  version             => '9.2',
}
class { 'postgresql::server': }

####client_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql client package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####server_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql server package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####contrib_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql contrib package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####devel_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql devel package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####java_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql java package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####plperl_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql PL/perl package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####python_package_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql Python package name. If not specified, the module will use whatever package name is the default for your OS distro.

####service_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql service name. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####service_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql service provider. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####service_status This setting can be used to override the default status check command for your PostgreSQL service. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####inidb_path Path to the initdb command.

####createdb_path Path to the createdb command.

####psql_path Path to the psql command.

####pg_hba_conf_path Path to your pg\_hba.conf file.

####postgresql_conf_path Path to your postgresql.conf file.

####pg_hba_conf_defaults If false, disables the defaults supplied with the module for pg\_hba.conf. This is useful if you disagree with the defaults and wish to override them yourself. Be sure that your changes of course align with the rest of the module, as some access is required to perform basic psql operations for example.

####datadir This setting can be used to override the default postgresql data directory for the target platform. If not specified, the module will use whatever directory is the default for your OS distro.

####confdir This setting can be used to override the default postgresql configuration directory for the target platform. If not specified, the module will use whatever directory is the default for your OS distro.

####bindir This setting can be used to override the default postgresql binaries directory for the target platform. If not specified, the module will use whatever directory is the default for your OS distro.

####user This setting can be used to override the default postgresql super user and owner of postgresql related files in the file system. If not specified, the module will use the user name 'postgres'.

####group This setting can be used to override the default postgresql user group to be used for related files in the file system. If not specified, the module will use the group name 'postgres'.

####version The version of PostgreSQL to install/manage. This is a simple way of providing a specific version such as '9.2' or '8.4' for example.

Defaults to your operating system default.

####needs_initdb This setting can be used to explicitly call the initdb operation after server package is installed and before the postgresql service is started. If not specified, the module will decide whether to call initdb or not depending on your OS distro.

####encoding This will set the default encoding encoding for all databases created with this module. On certain operating systems this will be used during the template1 initialization as well so it becomes a default outside of the module as well. Defaults to the operating system default.

####locale This will set the default database locale for all databases created with this module. On certain operating systems this will be used during the template1 initialization as well so it becomes a default outside of the module as well. Defaults to undef which is effectively C.

####firewall_supported This allows you to override the automated detection to see if your OS supports the firewall module.

####manage_package_repo If true this will setup the official PostgreSQL repositories on your host. Defaults to false.

###Class: postgresql::server The following list are options that you can set in the config_hash parameter of postgresql::server.

####ensure This value default to present. When set to absent it will remove all packages, configuration and data so use this with extreme caution.

####version This will set the version of the PostgreSQL software to install. Defaults to your operating systems default.

####postgres_password This value defaults to undef, meaning the super user account in the postgres database is a user called postgres and this account does not have a password. If you provide this setting, the module will set the password for the postgres user to your specified value.

####package_name The name of the package to use for installing the server software. Defaults to the default for your OS distro.

####package_ensure Value to pass through to the package resource when creating the server instance. Defaults to undef.

####plperl_package_name This sets the default package name for the PL/Perl extension. Defaults to utilising the operating system default.

####service_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql service name. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####service_name This setting can be used to override the default postgresql service provider. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####service_status This setting can be used to override the default status check command for your PostgreSQL service. If not specified, the module will use whatever service name is the default for your OS distro.

####listen_addresses This value defaults to localhost, meaning the postgres server will only accept connections from localhost. If you'd like to be able to connect to postgres from remote machines, you can override this setting. A value of * will tell postgres to accept connections from any remote machine. Alternately, you can specify a comma-separated list of hostnames or IP addresses. (For more info, have a look at the postgresql.conf file from your system's postgres package).

####ip_mask_deny_postgres_user This value defaults to 0.0.0.0/0. Sometimes it can be useful to block the superuser account from remote connections if you are allowing other database users to connect remotely. Set this to an IP and mask for which you want to deny connections by the postgres superuser account. So, e.g., the default value of 0.0.0.0/0 will match any remote IP and deny access, so the postgres user won't be able to connect remotely at all. Conversely, a value of 0.0.0.0/32 would not match any remote IP, and thus the deny rule will not be applied and the postgres user will be allowed to connect.

####ip_mask_allow_all_users This value defaults to 127.0.0.1/32. By default, Postgres does not allow any database user accounts to connect via TCP from remote machines. If you'd like to allow them to, you can override this setting. You might set it to 0.0.0.0/0 to allow database users to connect from any remote machine, or 192.168.0.0/16 to allow connections from any machine on your local 192.168 subnet.

####ipv4acls List of strings for access control for connection method, users, databases, IPv4 addresses; see postgresql documentation about pg_hba.conf for information (please note that the link will take you to documentation for the most recent version of Postgres, however links for earlier versions can be found on that page).

####ipv6acls List of strings for access control for connection method, users, databases, IPv6 addresses; see postgresql documentation about pg_hba.conf for information (please note that the link will take you to documentation for the most recent version of Postgres, however links for earlier versions can be found on that page).

####inidb_path Path to the initdb command.

####createdb_path Path to the createdb command.

####psql_path Path to the psql command.

####pg_hba_conf_path Path to your pg\_hba.conf file.

####postgresql_conf_path Path to your postgresql.conf file.

####pg_hba_conf_defaults If false, disables the defaults supplied with the module for pg\_hba.conf. This is useful if you di sagree with the defaults and wish to override them yourself. Be sure that your changes of course alig n with the rest of the module, as some access is required to perform basic psql operations for exam ple.

####user This setting can be used to override the default postgresql super user and owner of postgresql related files in the file system. If not specified, the module will use the user name 'postgres'.

####group This setting can be used to override the default postgresql user group to be used for related files in the file system. If not specified, the module will use the group name 'postgres'.

####needs_initdb This setting can be used to explicitly call the initdb operation after server package is installed and before the postgresql service is started. If not specified, the module will decide whether to call initdb or not depending on your OS distro.

####encoding This will set the default encoding encoding for all databases created with this module. On certain operating systems this will be used during the template1 initialization as well so it becomes a default outside of the module as well. Defaults to the operating system default.

####locale This will set the default database locale for all databases created with this module. On certain operating systems this will be used during the template1 initialization as well so it becomes a default outside of the module as well. Defaults to undef which is effectively C.

####manage_firewall This value defaults to false. Many distros ship with a fairly restrictive firewall configuration which will block the port that postgres tries to listen on. If you'd like for the puppet module to open this port for you (using the puppetlabs-firewall module), change this value to true. Check the documentation for puppetlabs/firewall to ensure the rest of the global setup is applied, to ensure things like persistence and global rules are set correctly.

###Class: postgresql::client

This class installs postgresql client software. Alter the following parameters if you have a custom version you would like to install (Note: don't forget to make sure to add any necessary yum or apt repositories if specifying a custom version):

####package_name The name of the postgresql client package.

####package_ensure The ensure parameter passed on to postgresql client package resource.

###Class: postgresql::server::contrib Installs the postgresql contrib package.

####package_name The name of the postgresql client package.

####package_ensure The ensure parameter passed on to postgresql contrib package resource.

###Class: postgresql::lib::devel Installs the packages containing the development libraries for PostgreSQL.

####package_ensure Override for the ensure parameter during package installation. Defaults to present.

####package_name Overrides the default package name for the distribution you are installing to. Defaults to postgresql-devel or postgresql<version>-devel depending on your distro.

###Class: postgresql::lib::java This class installs postgresql bindings for Java (JDBC). Alter the following parameters if you have a custom version you would like to install (Note: don't forget to make sure to add any necessary yum or apt repositories if specifying a custom version):

####package_name The name of the postgresql java package.

####package_ensure The ensure parameter passed on to postgresql java package resource.

###Class: postgresql::lib::python This class installs the postgresql Python libraries. For customer requirements you can customise the following parameters:

####package_name The name of the postgresql python package.

####package_ensure The ensure parameter passed on to postgresql python package resource.

###Class: postgresql::server::plperl This class installs the PL/Perl procedural language for postgresql.

####package_name The name of the postgresql PL/Perl package.

####package_ensure The ensure parameter passed on to postgresql PL/Perl package resource.

###Resource: postgresql::server::config_entry This resource can be used to modify your postgresql.conf configuration file.

Each resource maps to a line inside your postgresql.conf file, for example:

postgresql::server::config_entry { 'check_function_bodies':
  value => 'off',
}

####namevar Name of the setting to change.

####ensure Set to absent to remove an entry.

####value Value for the setting.

###Resource: postgresql::server::db This is a convenience resource that creates a database, user and assigns necessary permissions in one go.

For example, to create a database called test1 with a corresponding user of the same name, you can use:

postgresql::server::db { 'test1':
  user     => 'test1',
  password => 'test1',
}

####namevar The namevar for the resource designates the name of the database.

####user User to create and assign access to the database upon creation. Mandatory.

####password Password for the created user. Mandatory.

####encoding Override the character set during creation of the database. Defaults to the default defined during installation.

####locale Override the locale during creation of the database. Defaults to the default defined during installation.

####grant Grant permissions during creation. Defaults to ALL.

####tablespace The name of the tablespace to allocate this database to. If not specifies, it defaults to the PostgreSQL default.

####istemplate Define database as a template. Defaults to false.

###Resource: postgresql::server::database This defined type can be used to create a database with no users and no permissions, which is a rare use case.

####namevar The name of the database to create.

####dbname The name of the database, defaults to the namevar.

####owner Name of the database user who should be set as the owner of the database. Defaults to the $user variable set in postgresql::server or postgresql::globals.

####tablespace Tablespace for where to create this database. Defaults to the defaults defined during PostgreSQL installation.

####encoding Override the character set during creation of the database. Defaults to the default defined during installation.

####locale Override the locale during creation of the database. Defaults to the default defined during installation.

####istemplate Define database as a template. Defaults to false.

###Resource: postgresql::server::database_grant This defined type manages grant based access privileges for users, wrapping the postgresql::server::database_grant for database specific permissions. Consult the PostgreSQL documentation for grant for more information.

####namevar Used to uniquely identify this resource, but functionality not used during grant.

####privilege Can be one of SELECT, TEMPORARY, TEMP, CONNECT. ALL is used as a synonym for CREATE. If you need to add multiple privileges, a space delimited string can be used.

####db Database to grant access to.

####role Role or user whom you are granting access for.

####psql_db Database to execute the grant against. This should not ordinarily be changed from the default, which is postgres.

####psql_user OS user for running psql. Defaults to the default user for the module, usually postgres.

###Resource: postgresql::server::pg_hba_rule This defined type allows you to create an access rule for pg_hba.conf. For more details see the PostgreSQL documentation.

For example:

postgresql::server::pg_hba_rule { 'allow application network to access app database':
  description => "Open up postgresql for access from 200.1.2.0/24",
  type => 'host',
  database => 'app',
  user => 'app',
  address => '200.1.2.0/24',
  auth_method => 'md5',
}

This would create a ruleset in pg_hba.conf similar to:

# Rule Name: allow application network to access app database
# Description: Open up postgresql for access from 200.1.2.0/24
# Order: 150
host  app  app  200.1.2.0/24  md5

####namevar A unique identifier or short description for this rule. The namevar doesn't provide any functional usage, but it is stored in the comments of the produced pg_hba.conf so the originating resource can be identified.

####description A longer description for this rule if required. Defaults to none. This description is placed in the comments above the rule in pg_hba.conf.

####type The type of rule, this is usually one of: local, host, hostssl or hostnossl.

####database A comma separated list of databases that this rule matches.

####user A comma separated list of database users that this rule matches.

####address If the type is not 'local' you can provide a CIDR based address here for rule matching.

####auth_method The auth_method is described further in the pg_hba.conf documentation, but it provides the method that is used for authentication for the connection that this rule matches.

####auth_option For certain auth_method settings there are extra options that can be passed. Consult the PostgreSQL pg_hba.conf documentation for further details.

####order An order for placing the rule in pg_hba.conf. Defaults to 150.

####target This provides the target for the rule, and is generally an internal only property. Use with caution.

###Resource: postgresql::server::role This resource creates a role or user in PostgreSQL.

####namevar The role name to create.

####password_hash The hash to use during password creation. If the password is not already pre-encrypted in a format that PostgreSQL supports, use the postgresql_password function to provide an MD5 hash here, for example:

postgresql::role { "myusername":
  password_hash => postgresql_password('mypassword'),
}

####createdb Whether to grant the ability to create new databases with this role. Defaults to false.

####createrole Whether to grant the ability to create new roles with this role. Defaults to false.

####login Whether to grant login capability for the new role. Defaults to false.

####superuser Whether to grant super user capability for the new role. Defaults to false.

####replication If true provides replication capabilities for this role. Defaults to false.

####connection_limit Specifies how many concurrent connections the role can make. Defaults to -1 meaning no limit.

####username The username of the role to create, defaults to namevar.

###Resource: postgresql::server::table_grant This defined type manages grant based access privileges for users. Consult the PostgreSQL documentation for grant for more information.

####namevar Used to uniquely identify this resource, but functionality not used during grant.

####privilege Can be one of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, REFERENCES. ALL is used as a synonym for CREATE. If you need to add multiple privileges, a space delimited string can be used.

####table Table to grant access on.

####db Database of table.

####role Role or user whom you are granting access for.

####psql_db Database to execute the grant against. This should not ordinarily be changed from the default, which is postgres.

####psql_user OS user for running psql. Defaults to the default user for the module, usually postgres.

###Resource: postgresql::server::tablespace This defined type can be used to create a tablespace. For example:

postgresql::tablespace { 'tablespace1':
  location => '/srv/space1',
}

It will create the location if necessary, assigning it the same permissions as your PostgreSQL server.

####namevar The tablespace name to create.

####location The path to locate this tablespace.

####owner The default owner of the tablespace.

####spcname Name of the tablespace. Defaults to namevar.

###Resource: postgresql::validate_db_connection This resource can be utilised inside composite manifests to validate that a client has a valid connection with a remote PostgreSQL database. It can be ran from any node where the PostgreSQL client software is installed to validate connectivity before commencing other dependent tasks in your Puppet manifests, so it is often used when chained to other tasks such as: starting an application server, performing a database migration.

Example usage:

postgresql::validate_db_connection { 'validate my postgres connection':
  database_host           => 'my.postgres.host',
  database_username       => 'mydbuser',
  database_password       => 'mydbpassword',
  database_name           => 'mydbname',
}->
exec { 'rake db:migrate':
  cwd => '/opt/myrubyapp',
}

####namevar Uniquely identify this resource, but functionally does nothing.

####database_host The hostname of the database you wish to test.

####database_port Port to use when connecting.

####database_name The name of the database you wish to test.

####database_username Username to connect with.

####database_password Password to connect with. Can be left blank, but that is not recommended.

###Function: postgresql_password If you need to generate a postgres encrypted password, use postgresql_password. You can call it from your production manifests if you don't mind them containing the clear text versions of your passwords, or you can call it from the command line and then copy and paste the encrypted password into your manifest:

$ puppet apply --execute 'notify { "test": message => postgresql_password("username", "password") }'

###Function: postgresql_acls_to_resources_hash(acl_array, id, order_offset) This internal function converts a list of pg_hba.conf based acls (passed in as an array of strings) to a format compatible with the postgresql::pg_hba_rule resource.

This function should only be used internally by the module.

Limitations

Works with versions of PostgreSQL from 8.1 through 9.2.

Current it is only actively tested with the following operating systems:

• Debian 6.x and 7.x
• Centos 5.x and 6.x
• Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04

Although patches are welcome for making it work with other OS distros, it is considered best effort.

Development

Puppet Labs modules on the Puppet Forge are open projects, and community contributions are essential for keeping them great. We can't access the huge number of platforms and myriad of hardware, software, and deployment configurations that Puppet is intended to serve.

We want to keep it as easy as possible to contribute changes so that our modules work in your environment. There are a few guidelines that we need contributors to follow so that we can have a chance of keeping on top of things.

You can read the complete module contribution guide on the Puppet Labs wiki.

Tests

There are two types of tests distributed with the module. Unit tests with rspec-puppet and system tests using rspec-system.

For unit testing, make sure you have:

• rake
• bundler

Install the necessary gems:

bundle install --path=vendor

And then run the unit tests:

bundle exec rake spec

The unit tests are ran in Travis-CI as well, if you want to see the results of your own tests regsiter the service hook through Travis-CI via the accounts section for your Github clone of this project.

If you want to run the system tests, make sure you also have:

• vagrant > 1.2.x
• Virtualbox > 4.2.10

Then run the tests using:

bundle exec rake spec:system

To run the tests on different operating systems, see the sets available in .nodeset.yml and run the specific set with the following syntax:

RSPEC_SET=debian-607-x64 bundle exec rake spec:system

Transfer Notice

This Puppet module was originally authored by Inkling Systems. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Labs take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance as Puppet Labs is using it in the PuppetDB module. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of Inkling.

Previously: https://github.com/inkling/puppet-postgresql

Contributors

• Andrew Moon
• Kenn Knowles (@kennknowles)
• Adrien Thebo
• Albert Koch
• Andreas Ntaflos
• Brett Porter
• Chris Price
• dharwood
• Etienne Pelletier
• Florin Broasca
• Henrik
• Hunter Haugen
• Jari Bakken
• Jordi Boggiano
• Ken Barber
• nzakaria
• Richard Arends
• Spenser Gilliland
• stormcrow
• William Van Hevelingen

2013-10-01 - Version 3.0.0

Summary:

Version 3 was a major rewrite to fix some internal dependency issues, and to make the new Public API more clear. As a consequence a lot of things have changed for version 3 and older revisions that we will try to outline here.

(NOTE: The format of this CHANGELOG differs to normal in an attempt to explain the scope of changes)

• Server specific objects now moved under postgresql::server:: namespace:

To restructure server specific elements under the postgresql::server:: namespaces the following objects were renamed as such:

postgresql::database -> postgresql::server::database postgresql::database_grant -> postgresql::server::database_grant postgresql::db -> postgresql::server::db postgresql::grant -> postgresql::server::grant postgresql::pg_hba_rule -> postgresql::server::pg_hba_rule postgresql::plperl -> postgresql::server::plperl postgresql::contrib -> postgresql::server::contrib postgresql::role -> postgresql::server::role postgresql::table_grant -> postgresql::server::table_grant postgresql::tablespace -> postgresql::server::tablespace

• New postgresql::server::config_entry resource for managing configuration:

Previously we used the file_line resource to modify postgresql.conf. This new revision now adds a new resource named postgresql::server::config_entry for managing this file. For example:

    postgresql::server::config_entry { 'check_function_bodies':
      value => 'off',
    }

If you were using file_line for this purpose, you should change to this new methodology.

• postgresql_puppet_extras.conf has been removed:

Now that we have a methodology for managing postgresql.conf, and due to concerns over the file management methodology using an exec { 'touch ...': } as a way to create an empty file the existing postgresql_puppet_extras.conf file is no longer managed by this module.

If you wish to recreate this methodology yourself, use this pattern:

    class { 'postgresql::server': }

    $extras = "/tmp/include.conf"

    file { $extras:
      content => 'max_connections = 123',
      notify  => Class['postgresql::server::service'],
    }->
    postgresql::server::config_entry { 'include':
      value   => $extras,
    }

• All uses of the parameter charset changed to encoding:

Since PostgreSQL uses the terminology encoding not charset the parameter has been made consisent across all classes and resources.

• The postgresql base class is no longer how you set globals:

The old global override pattern was less then optimal so it has been fixed, however we decided to demark this properly by specifying these overrides in the class postgresql::global. Consult the documentation for this class now to see what options are available.

Also, some parameter elements have been moved between this and the postgresql::server class where it made sense.

• config_hash parameter collapsed for the postgresql::server class:

Because the config_hash was really passing data through to what was in effect an internal class (postgresql::config). And since we don't want this kind of internal exposure the parameters were collapsed up into the postgresql::server class directly.

• Lots of changes to 'private' or 'undocumented' classes:

If you were using these before, these have changed names. You should only use what is documented in this README.md, and if you don't have what you need you should raise a patch to add that feature to a public API. All internal classes now have a comment at the top indicating them as private to make sure the message is clear that they are not supported as Public API.

• pg_hba_conf_defaults parameter included to turn off default pg_hba rules:

The defaults should be good enough for most cases (if not raise a bug) but if you simply need an escape hatch, this setting will turn off the defaults. If you want to do this, it may affect the rest of the module so make sure you replace the rules with something that continues operation.

• postgresql::database_user has now been removed:

Use postgresql::server::role instead.

• postgresql::psql resource has now been removed:

Use postgresql_psql instead. In the future we may recreate this as a wrapper to add extra capability, but it will not match the old behaviour.

• postgresql_default_version fact has now been removed:

It didn't make sense to have this logic in a fact any more, the logic has been moved into postgresql::params.

• ripienaar/concat is no longer used, instead we use puppetlabs/concat:

The older concat module is now deprecated and moved into the puppetlabs/concat namespace. Functionality is more or less identical, but you may need to intervene during the installing of this package - as both use the same concat namespace.

2013-09-09 Release 2.5.0

Summary

The focus of this release is primarily to capture the fixes done to the types and providers to make sure refreshonly works properly and to set the stage for the large scale refactoring work of 3.0.0.

Features

Bugfixes

• Use boolean for refreshonly.
• Fix postgresql::plperl documentation.
• Add two missing parameters to config::beforeservice
• Style fixes

2013-08-01 Release 2.4.1

Summary

This minor bugfix release solves an idempotency issue when using plain text passwords for the password_hash parameter for the postgresql::role defined type. Without this, users would continually see resource changes everytime your run Puppet.

Bugfixes

• Alter role call not idempotent with cleartext passwords (Ken Barber)

2013-07-19 Release 2.4.0

Summary

This updates adds the ability to change permissions on tables, create template databases from normal databases, manage PL-Perl's postgres package, and disable the management of pg_hba.conf.

Features

• Add postgresql::table_grant defined resource
• Add postgresql::plperl class
• Add manage_pg_hba_conf parameter to the postgresql::config class
• Add istemplate parameter to the postgresql::database define

Bugfixes

• Update postgresql::role class to be able to update roles when modified instead of only on creation.
• Update tests
• Fix documentation of postgresql::database_grant

2.3.0

This feature release includes the following changes:

• Add a new parameter owner to the database type. This can be used to grant ownership of a new database to a specific user. (Bruno Harbulot)
• Add support for operating systems other than Debian/RedHat, as long as the user supplies custom values for all of the required paths, package names, etc. (Chris Price)
• Improved integration testing (Ken Barber)

2.2.1

This release fixes a bug whereby one of our shell commands (psql) were not ran from a globally accessible directory. This was causing permission denied errors when the command attempted to change user without changing directory.

Users of previous versions might have seen this error:

Error: Error executing SQL; psql returned 256: 'could not change directory to "/root"

This patch should correct that.

Detail Changes

• Set /tmp as default CWD for postgresql_psql

2.2.0

This feature release introduces a number of new features and bug fixes.

First of all it includes a new class named postgresql::python which provides you with a convenient way of install the python Postgresql client libraries.

class { 'postgresql::python':
}

You are now able to use postgresql::database_user without having to specify a password_hash, useful for different authentication mechanisms that do not need passwords (ie. cert, local etc.).

We've also provided a lot more advanced custom parameters now for greater control of your Postgresql installation. Consult the class documentation for PuppetDB in the README.

This release in particular has largely been contributed by the community members below, a big thanks to one and all.

Detailed Changes

• Add support for psycopg installation (Flaper Fesp and Dan Prince)
• Added default PostgreSQL version for Ubuntu 13.04 (Kamil Szymanski)
• Add ability to create users without a password (Bruno Harbulot)
• Three Puppet 2.6 fixes (Dominic Cleal)
• Add explicit call to concat::setup when creating concat file (Dominic Cleal)
• Fix readme typo (Jordi Boggiano)
• Update postgres_default_version for Ubuntu (Kamil Szymanski)
• Allow to set connection for noew role (Kamil Szymanski)
• Fix pg_hba_rule for postgres local access (Kamil Szymanski)
• Fix versions for travis-ci (Ken Barber)
• Add replication support (Jordi Boggiano)
• Cleaned up and added unit tests (Ken Barber)
• Generalization to provide more flexability in postgresql configuration (Karel Brezina)
• Create dependent directory for sudoers so tests work on Centos 5 (Ken Barber)
• Allow SQL commands to be run against a specific DB (Carlos Villela)
• Drop trailing comma to support Puppet 2.6 (Michael Arnold)

2.1.1

This release provides a bug fix for RHEL 5 and Centos 5 systems, or specifically systems using PostgreSQL 8.1 or older. On those systems one would have received the error:

Error: Could not start Service[postgresqld]: Execution of ‘/sbin/service postgresql start’ returned 1:

And the postgresql log entry:

FATAL: unrecognized configuration parameter "include"

This bug is due to a new feature we had added in 2.1.0, whereby the include directive in postgresql.conf was not compatible. As a work-around we have added checks in our code to make sure systems running PostgreSQL 8.1 or older do not have this directive added.

Detailed Changes

2013-01-21 - Ken Barber ken@bob.sh

• Only install include directive and included file on PostgreSQL >= 8.2
• Add system tests for Centos 5

2.1.0

This release is primarily a feature release, introducing some new helpful constructs to the module.

For starters, we've added the line include 'postgresql_conf_extras.conf' by default so extra parameters not managed by the module can be added by other tooling or by Puppet itself. This provides a useful escape-hatch for managing settings that are not currently managed by the module today.

We've added a new defined resource for managing your tablespace, so you can now create new tablespaces using the syntax:

postgresql::tablespace { 'dbspace':
  location => '/srv/dbspace',
}

We've added a locale parameter to the postgresql class, to provide a default. Also the parameter has been added to the postgresql::database and postgresql::db defined resources for changing the locale per database:

postgresql::db { 'mydatabase':
  user     => 'myuser',
  password => 'mypassword',
  encoding => 'UTF8',
  locale   => 'en_NG',
}

There is a new class for installing the necessary packages to provide the PostgreSQL JDBC client jars:

class { 'postgresql::java': }

And we have a brand new defined resource for managing fine-grained rule sets within your pg_hba.conf access lists:

postgresql::pg_hba { 'Open up postgresql for access from 200.1.2.0/24':
  type => 'host',
  database => 'app',
  user => 'app',
  address => '200.1.2.0/24',
  auth_method => 'md5',
}

Finally, we've also added Travis-CI support and unit tests to help us iterate faster with tests to reduce regression. The current URL for these tests is here: https://travis-ci.org/puppetlabs/puppet-postgresql. Instructions on how to run the unit tests available are provided in the README for the module.

A big thanks to all those listed below who made this feature release possible :-).

Detailed Changes

2013-01-18 - Simão Fontes simaofontes@gmail.com & Flaper Fesp flaper87@gmail.com

• Remove trailing commas from params.pp property definition for Puppet 2.6.0 compatibility

2013-01-18 - Lauren Rother lauren.rother@puppetlabs.com

• Updated README.md to conform with best practices template

2013-01-09 - Adrien Thebo git@somethingsinistral.net

• Update postgresql_default_version to 9.1 for Debian 7.0

2013-01-28 - Karel Brezina karel.brezina@gmail.com

• Add support for tablespaces

2013-01-16 - Chris Price chris@puppetlabs.com & Karel Brezina karel.brezina@gmail.com

• Provide support for an 'include' config file 'postgresql_conf_extras.conf' that users can modify manually or outside of the module.

2013-01-31 - jv jeff@jeffvier.com

• Fix typo in README.pp for postgresql::db example

2013-02-03 - Ken Barber ken@bob.sh

• Add unit tests and travis-ci support

2013-02-02 - Ken Barber ken@bob.sh

• Add locale parameter support to the 'postgresql' class

2013-01-21 - Michael Arnold github@razorsedge.org

• Add a class for install the packages containing the PostgreSQL JDBC jar

2013-02-06 - fhrbek filip.hbrek@gmail.com

• Coding style fixes to reduce warnings in puppet-lint and Geppetto

2013-02-10 - Ken Barber ken@bob.sh

• Provide new defined resource for managing pg_hba.conf

2013-02-11 - Ken Barber ken@bob.sh

• Fix bug with reload of Postgresql on Redhat/Centos

2013-02-15 - Erik Dalén dalen@spotify.com

• Fix more style issues to reduce warnings in puppet-lint and Geppetto

2013-02-15 - Erik Dalén dalen@spotify.com

• Fix case whereby we were modifying a hash after creation

2.0.1

Minor bugfix release.

2013-01-16 - Chris Price chris@puppetlabs.com

• Fix revoke command in database.pp to support postgres 8.1 (43ded42)

2013-01-15 - Jordi Boggiano j.boggiano@seld.be

• Add support for ubuntu 12.10 status (3504405)

2.0.0

Many thanks to the following people who contributed patches to this release:

• Adrien Thebo
• Albert Koch
• Andreas Ntaflos
• Brett Porter
• Chris Price
• dharwood
• Etienne Pelletier
• Florin Broasca
• Henrik
• Hunter Haugen
• Jari Bakken
• Jordi Boggiano
• Ken Barber
• nzakaria
• Richard Arends
• Spenser Gilliland
• stormcrow
• William Van Hevelingen

Notable features:

• Add support for versions of postgres other than the system default version (which varies depending on OS distro). This includes optional support for automatically managing the package repo for the "official" postgres yum/apt repos. (Major thanks to Etienne Pelletier epelletier@maestrodev.com and Ken Barber ken@bob.sh for their tireless efforts and patience on this feature set!) For example usage see tests/official-postgresql-repos.pp.

• Add some support for Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Quantal

• Add new postgres_psql type with a Ruby provider, to replace the old exec-based psql type. This gives us much more flexibility around executing SQL statements and controlling their logging / reports output.

• Major refactor of the "spec" tests--which are actually more like acceptance tests. We now support testing against multiple OS distros via vagrant, and the framework is in place to allow us to very easily add more distros. Currently testing against Cent6 and Ubuntu 10.04.

• Fixed a bug that was preventing multiple databases from being owned by the same user (9adcd182f820101f5e4891b9f2ff6278dfad495c - Etienne Pelletier epelletier@maestrodev.com)

• Add support for ACLs for finer-grained control of user/interface access (b8389d19ad78b4fb66024897097b4ed7db241930 - dharwood harwoodd@cat.pdx.edu)

• Many other bug fixes and improvements!

1.0.0

2012-09-17 - Version 0.3.0 released

2012-09-14 - Chris Price chris@puppetlabs.com

• Add a type for validating a postgres connection (ce4a049)

2012-08-25 - Jari Bakken jari.bakken@gmail.com

• Remove trailing commas. (e6af5e5)

2012-08-16 - Version 0.2.0 released