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Partition - AWS Glue

Partition

Represents a slice of table data.

Contents

CatalogId

The ID of the Data Catalog in which the partition resides.

Type: String

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

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

Required: No

CreationTime

The time at which the partition was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

DatabaseName

The name of the catalog database in which to create the partition.

Type: String

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

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

Required: No

LastAccessTime

The last time at which the partition was accessed.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

LastAnalyzedTime

The last time at which column statistics were computed for this partition.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Parameters

These key-value pairs define partition parameters.

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

StorageDescriptor

Provides information about the physical location where the partition is stored.

Type: StorageDescriptor object

Required: No

TableName

The name of the database table in which to create the partition.

Type: String

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

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

Required: No

Values

The values of the partition.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

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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