> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kinetica.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# show_table_metadata

<div className="kinetica-pydoc">
  <div className="dl py method">
    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.show_table_metadata"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">show\_table\_metadata</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">table\_names</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></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#L40199"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

    <div className="dd">
      <p>Retrieves the user provided metadata for the specified tables.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

      <div className="blockquote">
        <div>
          <div className="dl simple">
            <div className="dt">table\_names (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>Names of tables whose metadata will be fetched, in \[schema\_name.]table\_name format, using standard <a className="reference external" href="/content/concepts/tables/#table-name-resolution">name resolution rules</a>. All provided tables must exist, or an error is returned. The user can provide a single element (which will be automatically promoted to a list internally) or a list.</p>
            </div>

            <div className="dt">options (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>

      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

      <div className="blockquote">
        <div>
          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

          <div className="dl simple">
            <div className="dt">table\_names (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>Value of input parameter <span className="em">table\_names</span>.</p>
            </div>

            <div className="dt">metadata\_maps (<span className="em">list of dicts of str to str</span>) –</div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>A list of maps which contain the metadata of the tables in the order the tables are listed in input parameter <span className="em">table\_names</span>. Each map has (metadata attribute name, metadata attribute value) pairs.</p>
            </div>

            <div className="dt">info (<span className="em">dict of str to str</span>) –</div>

            <div className="dd">
              <p>Additional information.</p>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>