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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/create/catalog
Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database.

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Input Parameter Description

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name
string
Name of the catalog to be created.
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table_format
string
Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake).
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location
string
Location of the catalog in ‘http[s]://[server[:port]]]’ format.
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type
string
Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue).
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credential
string
Name of the credential object to be used in catalog.
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datasource
string
Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string.
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options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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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:
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status
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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message
String
Empty if success or an error message
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data_type
String
‘create_catalog_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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data
String
Empty string
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data_str
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /create/catalog endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.