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PartitionIndexDescriptor - AWS Glue

PartitionIndexDescriptor

A descriptor for a partition index in a table.

Contents

IndexName

The name of the partition index.

Type: String

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

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

Required: Yes

IndexStatus

The status of the partition index.

The possible statuses are:

  • CREATING: The index is being created. When an index is in a CREATING state, the index or its table cannot be deleted.

  • ACTIVE: The index creation succeeds.

  • FAILED: The index creation fails.

  • DELETING: The index is deleted from the list of indexes.

Type: String

Valid Values: CREATING | ACTIVE | DELETING | FAILED

Required: Yes

Keys

A list of one or more keys, as KeySchemaElement structures, for the partition index.

Type: Array of KeySchemaElement objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.

Required: Yes

BackfillErrors

A list of errors that can occur when registering partition indexes for an existing table.

Type: Array of BackfillError objects

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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