Utilities

Utility functions for creating, managing, and querying database objects.

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Create New Relations

create_schema(schema[, raise_error])	Creates a new schema.
create_table(table_name, dtype[, schema, ...])	Creates a new table using the input columns' names and data types.

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Ingest Data

insert_into(table_name, data[, schema, ...])

Inserts the dataset into an existing VAST table.

See other parsers at Parsers.

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Drop Data

drop([name, method, raise_error])

Drops the input relation.

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Database Information

current_session()	Returns the current DB session.
username()	Returns the current DB username.
does_table_exist(table_name, schema)	Checks if the specified table exists.
has_privileges(object_name, object_schema, ...)	Checks if the user has all the privileges on the object_schema.object_name object.

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Table Information

get_data_types([expr, column, table_name, ...])	Returns customized relation columns and the respective data types.
vast_python_dtype(type_name[, display_size, ...])	Takes as input the Trino type information and returns its corresponding data type string.