SVL_S3RETRIES

Use the SVL_S3RETRIES view to get information about why a data lake query on Amazon S3 that uses Amazon Redshift Spectrum has failed.

SVL_S3RETRIES is visible to all users. Superusers can see all rows; regular users can see only their own data. For more information, see Visibility of data in system tables and views.

RG provisioned clusters

SVL_S3RETRIES is not populated on RG provisioned clusters. The view exists and remains queryable, but returns no rows for queries that ran on RG clusters, because RG uses the cluster's native reader to query Amazon S3 and does not use the Spectrum request retry model.

For Amazon S3 client retry and error details on RG provisioned clusters, use STL_S3CLIENT and STL_S3CLIENT_ERROR.

Table columns

Column name	Data type	Description
query	integer	The query ID.
segment	integer	Segment number. A query consists of multiple segments, and each segment consists of one or more steps. Query segments can run in parallel. Each segment runs in a single process.
node	integer	The node number.
slice	integer	The data slice that a particular segment ran against.
eventtime	timestamp without time zone	Time in UTC that the step started executing.
retries	integer	The number of retries for the query.
successful_fetches	integer	The number of times data was returned.
file_size	bigint	This size of the file in bytes.
location	text	The location of the table.
message	text	The error message.

Sample query

The following example retrieves data about failed S3 queries.

SELECT svl_s3retries.query, svl_s3retries.segment, svl_s3retries.node, svl_s3retries.slice, svl_s3retries.eventtime, svl_s3retries.retries, 
svl_s3retries.successful_fetches, svl_s3retries.file_size, btrim((svl_s3retries."location")::text) AS "location", btrim((svl_s3retries.message)::text)
AS message FROM svl_s3retries;