terraform/website/source/docs/providers/postgresql/r/postgresql_role.html.markdown

layout	page_title	sidebar_current	description
postgresql	PostgreSQL: postgresql_role	docs-postgresql-resource-postgresql_role	Creates and manages a role on a PostgreSQL server.

postgresql_role

The postgresql_role resource creates and manages a role on a PostgreSQL server.

Usage

resource "postgresql_role" "my_role" {
  name = "my_role"
  login = true
  password = "mypass"
}

resource "postgresql_role" "my_replication_role" {
  name = "replication_role"
  replication = true
  login = true
  connection_limit = 5
  password = "md5c98cbfeb6a347a47eb8e96cfb4c4b890"
}

Argument Reference

• name - (Required) The name of the role. Must be unique on the PostgreSQL server instance where it is configured.

• superuser - (Optional) Defines whether the role is a "superuser", and therefore can override all access restrictions within the database. Default value is false.

• create_database - (Optional) Defines a role's ability to execute CREATE DATABASE. Default value is false.

• create_role - (Optional) Defines a role's ability to execute CREATE ROLE. A role with this privilege can also alter and drop other roles. Default value is false.

• inherit - (Optional) Defines whether a role "inherits" the privileges of roles it is a member of. Default value is true.

• login - (Optional) Defines whether role is allowed to log in. Roles without this attribute are useful for managing database privileges, but are not users in the usual sense of the word. Default value is false.

• replication - (Optional) Defines whether a role is allowed to initiate streaming replication or put the system in and out of backup mode. Default value is false

• bypass_row_level_security - (Optional) Defines whether a role bypasses every row-level security (RLS) policy. Default value is false.

• connection_limit - (Optional) If this role can log in, this specifies how many concurrent connections the role can establish. -1 (the default) means no limit.

• encrypted_password - (Optional) Defines whether the password is stored encrypted in the system catalogs. Default value is true. NOTE: this value is always set (to the conservative and safe value), but may interfere with the behavior of PostgreSQL's password_encryption setting.

• password - (Optional) Sets the role's password. (A password is only of use for roles having the login attribute set to true, but you can nonetheless define one for roles without it.) Roles without a password explicitly set are left alone. If the password is set to the magic value NULL, the password will be always be cleared.

• valid_until - (Optional) Defines the date and time after which the role's password is no longer valid. Established connections past this valid_time will have to be manually terminated. This value corresponds to a PostgreSQL datetime. If omitted or the magic value NULL is used, valid_until will be set to infinity. Default is NULL, therefore infinity.

Import Example

postgresql_role supports importing resources. Supposing the following Terraform:

provider "postgresql" {
  alias = "admindb"
}

resource "postgresql_role" "replication_role" {
  provider = "postgresql.admindb"

  name = "replication_name"
}

It is possible to import a postgresql_role resource with the following command:

$ terraform import postgresql_role.replication_role replication_name

Where replication_name is the name of the role to import and postgresql_role.replication_role is the name of the resource whose state will be populated as a result of the command.