CopyCommand - Amazon Data Firehose

CopyCommand

Describes a COPY command for Amazon Redshift.

Contents

DataTableName

The name of the target table. The table must already exist in the database.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: .*

Required: Yes

CopyOptions

Optional parameters to use with the Amazon Redshift COPY command. For more information, see the "Optional Parameters" section of Amazon Redshift COPY command. Some possible examples that would apply to Firehose are as follows:

delimiter '\t' lzop; - fields are delimited with "\t" (TAB character) and compressed using lzop.

delimiter '|' - fields are delimited with "|" (this is the default delimiter).

delimiter '|' escape - the delimiter should be escaped.

fixedwidth 'venueid:3,venuename:25,venuecity:12,venuestate:2,venueseats:6' - fields are fixed width in the source, with each width specified after every column in the table.

JSON 's3://mybucket/jsonpaths.txt' - data is in JSON format, and the path specified is the format of the data.

For more examples, see Amazon Redshift COPY command examples.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 204800.

Pattern: .*

Required: No

DataTableColumns

A comma-separated list of column names.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 204800.

Pattern: .*

Required: No

See Also

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