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Catalog

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Catalog - AWS Glue

The catalog object represents a logical grouping of databases in the AWS Glue Data Catalog or a federated source. You can now create a Redshift-federated catalog or a catalog containing resource links to Redshift databases in another account or region.

Contents

Name

The name of the catalog. Cannot be the same as the account ID.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: ^(?!(.*[.\/\\]|aws:)).*$

Required: Yes

CatalogId

The ID of the catalog. To grant access to the default catalog, this field should not be provided.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

CatalogProperties

A CatalogProperties object that specifies data lake access properties and other custom properties.

Type: CatalogPropertiesOutput object

Required: No

CreateDatabaseDefaultPermissions

An array of PrincipalPermissions objects. Creates a set of default permissions on the database(s) for principals. Used by AWS Lake Formation. Not used in the normal course of AWS Glue operations.

Type: Array of PrincipalPermissions objects

Required: No

CreateTableDefaultPermissions

An array of PrincipalPermissions objects. Creates a set of default permissions on the table(s) for principals. Used by AWS Lake Formation. Not used in the normal course of AWS Glue operations.

Type: Array of PrincipalPermissions objects

Required: No

CreateTime

The time at which the catalog was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Description

Description string, not more than 2048 bytes long, matching the URI address multi-line string pattern. A description of the catalog.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

FederatedCatalog

A FederatedCatalog object that points to an entity outside the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

Type: FederatedCatalog object

Required: No

Parameters

A map array of key-value pairs that define parameters and properties of the catalog.

Type: String to string map

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Key Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Value Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512000.

Required: No

ResourceArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) assigned to the catalog resource.

Type: String

Required: No

TargetRedshiftCatalog

A TargetRedshiftCatalog object that describes a target catalog for database resource linking.

Type: TargetRedshiftCatalog object

Required: No

UpdateTime

The time at which the catalog was last updated.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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