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Retrieves the user provided metadata for the specified tables.

Input Parameter Description

array of strings
Names of tables whose metadata will be fetched, in [schema_name.]table_name format, using standard name resolution rules. All provided tables must exist, or an error is returned.
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica 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:
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
String
Empty if success or an error message
String
‘show_table_metadata_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
String
Empty string
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/table/metadata endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.