86. cdist-type__postgres_role(7)¶

86.1. DESCRIPTION¶

This cdist type allows you to create or drop postgres roles.

86.2. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

state

Either “present” or “absent”, defaults to “present”

All other parameters map directly to the corresponding postgres createrole parameters.

password

86.3. BOOLEAN PARAMETERS¶

All parameter map directly to the corresponding postgres createrole parameters.

login createdb createrole superuser inherit

86.4. EXAMPLES¶

__postgres_role myrole

__postgres_role myrole --password 'secret'

__postgres_role admin --password 'very-secret' --superuser

__postgres_role dbcustomer --password 'bla' --createdb

86.5. SEE ALSO¶

• cdist-type(7)
• cdist-type__postgres_database(7)
• http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createrole.html

86.6. COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2011 Steven Armstrong. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).