/create/catalog

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/create/catalog

Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database.

Input Parameter Description

Name

Type

Description

name

string

Name of the catalog to be created.

table_format

string

Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake)

location

string

Location of the catalog in 'http[s]://[server[:port]]]' format.

type

string

Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue)

credential

string

Name of the credential object to be used in catalog

datasource

string

Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string

options

map of string to strings

Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys)

Parameter Description

access_delegation

Use access delegation for object store. The default value is datasource_credentials. The supported values are:

datasource_credentials
vended_credentials

skip_validation

Bypass validation of connection to remote source. The default value is false. The supported values are:

true
false

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

'create_catalog_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 /create/catalog endpoint:

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Value of input parameter name.
info	map of string to strings	Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.