diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_ping.py b/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_ping.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f1af0366552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/database/postgresql/postgresql_ping.py
@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright: (c) 2018, Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007) <aaklychkov@mail.ru>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+ANSIBLE_METADATA = {
+    'metadata_version': '1.1',
+    'status': ['preview'],
+    'supported_by': 'community'
+}
+
+DOCUMENTATION = r'''
+---
+module: postgresql_ping
+short_description: Check remote PostgreSQL server availability
+description:
+- Simple module to check remote PostgreSQL server availability.
+version_added: "2.8"
+options:
+  db:
+    description:
+    - Name of database to connect.
+    type: str
+  port:
+    description:
+    - Database port to connect.
+    type: int
+    default: 5432
+  login_user:
+    description:
+    - User (role) used to authenticate with PostgreSQL.
+    type: str
+    default: postgres
+  login_password:
+    description:
+    - Password used to authenticate with PostgreSQL.
+    type: str
+  login_host:
+    description:
+    - Host running PostgreSQL.
+    type: str
+  login_unix_socket:
+    description:
+    - Path to a Unix domain socket for local connections.
+    type: str
+  ssl_mode:
+    description:
+    - Determines whether or with what priority a secure SSL TCP/IP connection
+      will be negotiated with the server.
+    - See U(https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-ssl.html) for
+      more information on the modes.
+    - Default of C(prefer) matches libpq default.
+    type: str
+    choices: [ allow, disable, prefer, require, verify-ca, verify-full ]
+    default: prefer
+  ssl_rootcert:
+    description:
+    - 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.
+    type: str
+notes:
+- The default authentication assumes that you are either logging in as or
+  sudo'ing to the postgres account on the host.
+- 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.
+requirements: [ psycopg2 ]
+author:
+- Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = r'''
+# PostgreSQL ping dbsrv server from the shell:
+# ansible dbsrv -m postgresql_ping
+
+# In the example below you need to generate sertificates previously.
+# See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-ssl.html for more information.
+- name: PostgreSQL ping dbsrv server using not default credentials and ssl
+  postgresql_ping:
+    db: protected_db
+    login_host: dbsrv
+    login_user: secret
+    login_password: secret_pass
+    ssl_rootcert: /root/root.crt
+    ssl_mode: verify-full
+'''
+
+RETURN = r'''
+is_available:
+  description: PostgreSQL server availability.
+  returned: always
+  type: bool
+  sample: true
+server_version:
+  description: PostgreSQL server version.
+  returned: always
+  type: dict
+  sample: { major: 10, minor: 1 }
+'''
+
+
+try:
+    import psycopg2
+    HAS_PSYCOPG2 = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_PSYCOPG2 = False
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.database import SQLParseError
+from ansible.module_utils.postgres import postgres_common_argument_spec
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
+from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
+
+
+# ===========================================
+# PostgreSQL module specific support methods.
+#
+
+
+class PgPing(object):
+    def __init__(self, module, cursor):
+        self.module = module
+        self.cursor = cursor
+        self.is_available = False
+        self.version = {}
+
+    def do(self):
+        self.get_pg_version()
+        return (self.is_available, self.version)
+
+    def get_pg_version(self):
+        query = "SELECT version()"
+        raw = self.__exec_sql(query)[0][0]
+        if raw:
+            self.is_available = True
+            raw = raw.split()[1].split('.')
+            self.version = dict(
+                major=int(raw[0]),
+                minor=int(raw[1]),
+            )
+
+    def __exec_sql(self, query):
+        try:
+            self.cursor.execute(query)
+            res = self.cursor.fetchall()
+            if res:
+                return res
+        except SQLParseError as e:
+            self.module.fail_json(msg=to_native(e))
+            self.cursor.close()
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.module.warn("PostgreSQL server is unavailable: %s" % to_native(e))
+
+        return False
+
+# ===========================================
+# Module execution.
+#
+
+
+def main():
+    argument_spec = postgres_common_argument_spec()
+    argument_spec.update(
+        db=dict(type='str'),
+        ssl_mode=dict(type='str', default='prefer', choices=['allow', 'disable', 'prefer', 'require', 'verify-ca', 'verify-full']),
+        ssl_rootcert=dict(type='str'),
+    )
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=argument_spec,
+        supports_check_mode=True,
+    )
+
+    if not HAS_PSYCOPG2:
+        module.fail_json(msg="The python psycopg2 module is required")
+
+    sslrootcert = module.params["ssl_rootcert"]
+
+    # To use defaults values, keyword arguments must be absent, so
+    # check which values are empty and don't include in the **kw
+    # dictionary
+    params_map = {
+        "login_host": "host",
+        "login_user": "user",
+        "login_password": "password",
+        "port": "port",
+        "db": "database",
+        "ssl_mode": "sslmode",
+        "ssl_rootcert": "sslrootcert"
+    }
+    kw = dict((params_map[k], v) for (k, v) in iteritems(module.params)
+              if k in params_map and v != "" and v is not None)
+
+    # If a login_unix_socket is specified, incorporate it here.
+    is_localhost = "host" not in kw or kw["host"] is None or kw["host"] == "localhost"
+    if is_localhost and module.params["login_unix_socket"] != "":
+        kw["host"] = module.params["login_unix_socket"]
+
+    if psycopg2.__version__ < '2.4.3' and sslrootcert is not None:
+        module.fail_json(msg='psycopg2 must be at least 2.4.3 in order '
+                             'to user the ssl_rootcert parameter')
+
+    # Set some default values:
+    cursor = False
+    db_connection = False
+    result = dict(
+        changed=False,
+        is_available=False,
+        server_version=dict(),
+    )
+
+    try:
+        db_connection = psycopg2.connect(**kw)
+        cursor = db_connection.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)
+    except TypeError as e:
+        if 'sslrootcert' in e.args[0]:
+            module.fail_json(msg='Postgresql server must be at least '
+                                 'version 8.4 to support sslrootcert')
+        module.fail_json(msg="unable to connect to database: %s" % to_native(e))
+    except Exception as e:
+        module.warn("PostgreSQL server is unavailable: %s" % to_native(e))
+
+    # Do job:
+    pg_ping = PgPing(module, cursor)
+    if cursor:
+        # If connection established:
+        result["is_available"], result["server_version"] = pg_ping.do()
+        db_connection.rollback()
+
+    module.exit_json(**result)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/postgresql/defaults/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/defaults/main.yml
index af5a5fbe4da..339a76e72d3 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/postgresql/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/defaults/main.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ db_name: 'ansible_db'
 db_user1: 'ansible_db_user1'
 db_user2: 'ansible_db_user2'
 db_user3: 'ansible_db_user3'
+db_default: 'postgres'
 
 tmp_dir: '/tmp'
 db_session_role1: 'session_role1'
-db_session_role2: 'session_role2'
\ No newline at end of file
+db_session_role2: 'session_role2'
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/main.yml
index 3f35d44ee82..e8036335688 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/main.yml
@@ -771,6 +771,9 @@
 # Test postgresql_query module
 - include: postgresql_query.yml
 
+# Verify postgresql_ping module
+- include: postgresql_ping.yml db_name_nonexist=fake_db
+
 # dump/restore tests per format
 # ============================================================
 - include: state_dump_restore.yml test_fixture=user file=dbdata.sql
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/postgresql_ping.yml b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/postgresql_ping.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eb9e75aa836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/targets/postgresql/tasks/postgresql_ping.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Test code for the postgresql_ping module
+# Copyright: (c) 2019, Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007) <aaklychkov@mail.ru>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+- name: postgresql_ping - test return values
+  become_user: "{{ pg_user }}"
+  become: yes
+  postgresql_ping:
+    db: "{{ db_default }}"
+    login_user: "{{ pg_user }}"
+  register: result
+  ignore_errors: yes
+
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - result.is_available == true
+      - result.server_version != {}
+      - result.server_version.major != false
+      - result.server_version.minor != false
+      - result.changed == false
+
+- name: postgresql_ping - check ping of non-existing database doesn't return anything
+  become_user: "{{ pg_user }}"
+  become: yes
+  postgresql_ping:
+    db: "{{ db_name_nonexist }}"
+    login_user: "{{ pg_user }}"
+  register: result
+  ignore_errors: yes
+
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - result.is_available == false
+      - result.server_version == {}
+      - result.changed == false