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/has/table

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/has/table

Checks for the existence of a table with the given name.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
table_name	string	Name of the table to check for existence, in [schema_name.]table_name format, using standard name resolution rules.
options	map of string to strings	Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name

Type

Description

status

String

'OK' or 'ERROR'

message

String

Empty if success or an error message

data_type

String

'has_table_response' or 'none' in case of an error

data

String

Empty string

data_str

JSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /has/table endpoint:

Name

Type

Description

table_name

string

Value of input parameter table_name

table_exists

boolean

Indicates whether the table exists or not. Possible values are:

true
false

info

map of string to strings

Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.