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# gpudb::ShowTableMetadataRequest

> gpudb::ShowTableMetadataRequest — Kinetica C++ API

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    <p>A set of parameters for <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/classgpudb_1_1GPUdb#a8011e9d5df312e8f50583cc4b153dde8">GPUdb::showTableMetadata</a>. <a href="#details">More...</a></p>
    <p><code>#include \<<a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">gpudb/protocol/show\_table\_metadata.h</a>></code></p>

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        <td className="mdescRight">Constructs a <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1ShowTableMetadataRequest" title="A set of parameters for GPUdb::showTableMetadata.">ShowTableMetadataRequest</a> object with default parameters. <br /></td>
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        <td className="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a className="el" href="#a3820d52176cc6d1446b6c87432a47b32">ShowTableMetadataRequest</a> (const std::vector\< std::string > \&tableNames\_, const std::map\< std::string, std::string > \&options\_)</td>
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        <td className="mdescRight">Constructs a <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1ShowTableMetadataRequest" title="A set of parameters for GPUdb::showTableMetadata.">ShowTableMetadataRequest</a> object with the specified parameters. <br /></td>
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      <p>A set of parameters for <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/classgpudb_1_1GPUdb#a8011e9d5df312e8f50583cc4b153dde8">GPUdb::showTableMetadata</a>. </p>
      <p>Retrieves the user provided metadata for the specified tables. </p>
      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source#l00018">18</a> of file <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">show\_table\_metadata.h</a>.</p>
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        <p>Constructs a <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1ShowTableMetadataRequest" title="A set of parameters for GPUdb::showTableMetadata.">ShowTableMetadataRequest</a> object with default parameters. </p>
        <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source#l00024">24</a> of file <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">show\_table\_metadata.h</a>.</p>
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                <td>Names of tables whose metadata will be fetched, in \[schema\_name.]table\_name format, using standard <a href="/content/concepts/tables/#table-name-resolution" target="_top">name resolution rules</a>. All provided tables must exist, or an error is returned. </td>
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        <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source#l00044">44</a> of file <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">show\_table\_metadata.h</a>.</p>
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        <p>Optional parameters. </p>
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        <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source#l00062">62</a> of file <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">show\_table\_metadata.h</a>.</p>
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        <p>Names of tables whose metadata will be fetched, in \[ schema\_name. </p>
        <p>\ ]table\_name format, using standard <a href="/content/concepts/tables/#table-name-resolution" target="_top">name resolution rules</a>. All provided tables must exist, or an error is returned. </p>
        <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source#l00057">57</a> of file <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/show__table__metadata_8h_source">show\_table\_metadata.h</a>.</p>
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