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# /admin/repair/table

```
URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/admin/repair/table
```

Manually repair a corrupted table. Returns information about affected tables.

## Input Parameter Description

<ParamField body="table_names" type="array of strings">
  List of tables to query. An asterisk returns all tables.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="table_types" type="map of string to strings">
  ID of the type per table.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="options" type="map of string to strings">
  Optional parameters.

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

  <Expandable title="options">
    <ParamField body="repair_policy">
      Corrective action to take.

      * **delete\_chunks**: Deletes any corrupted chunks.
      * **shrink\_columns**: Shrinks corrupted chunks to the shortest column.
      * **replay\_wal**: Manually invokes write-ahead log (WAL) replay on the table.
      * **alter\_table**: Reset columns modification after incomplete alter column.
    </ParamField>

    <ParamField body="verify_all">
      If *false* only table chunk data already known to be corrupted will be repaired. Otherwise the database will perform a full table scan to check for correctness.

      The default value is `false`.

      The supported values are:

      * true
      * false
    </ParamField>
  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## 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:

<ResponseField name="status" type="String">
  'OK' or 'ERROR'
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="message" type="String">
  Empty if success or an error message
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_type" type="String">
  'admin\_repair\_table\_response' or 'none' in case of an error
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data" type="String">
  Empty string
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_str" type="JSON or String">
  This embedded JSON represents the result of the /admin/repair/table endpoint:

  <Expandable title="data_str">
    <ResponseField name="table_names" type="array of strings">
      List of repaired tables.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="repair_status" type="array of strings">
      List of repair status by table.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="info" type="map of string to strings">
      Additional information.
    </ResponseField>
  </Expandable>

  Empty string in case of an error.
</ResponseField>