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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/insert/records
Adds multiple records to the specified table. The operation is synchronous, meaning that a response will not be returned until all the records are fully inserted and available. The response payload provides the counts of the number of records actually inserted and/or updated, and can provide the unique identifier of each added record. The input parameter options parameter can be used to customize this function’s behavior. The update_on_existing_pk option specifies the record collision policy for inserting into a table with a primary key, but is ignored if no primary key exists. The return_record_ids option indicates that the database should return the unique identifiers of inserted records.

Input Parameter Description

table_name
string
Name of table to which the records are to be added, in [schema_name.]table_name format, using standard name resolution rules. Must be an existing table.
list
array of bytes
An array of binary-encoded data for the records to be added. All records must be of the same type as that of the table. Empty array if input parameter list_encoding is json.
list_str
array of strings
An array of JSON encoded data for the records to be added. All records must be of the same type as that of the table. Empty array if input parameter list_encoding is binary.
list_encoding
string
The encoding of the records to be inserted.The default value is binary.The supported values are:
  • binary
  • json
options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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