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# admin_show_shards

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.admin_show_shards"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">admin\_show\_shards</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L15562"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Show the mapping of shards to the corresponding rank and tom. The response message contains list of 16384 (total number of shards in the system) Rank and TOM numbers corresponding to each shard.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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              <p>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">version (<span className="em">long</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Current shard array version number.</p>
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              <p>Array of ranks indexed by the shard number.</p>
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              <p>Array of toms to which the corresponding shard belongs.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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