S3 Data Lake – List tables action

The List tables action retrieves all tables from a specified database in your AWS Glue Data catalog.

S3 Data Lake – List tables action

Input fields

Input field	Description
Database name	Select the name of the database to retrieve tables from.
Catalog	Select the data catalog. If left blank, the AWS account ID is used by default.
Expression	Provide a pattern to filter table names using a regular expression.
Max results	Set the maximum number of tables to return in the response. The minimum value is 1, and the maximum value is 100.
Transaction ID	Specify the transaction ID at which to read the table contents.
Query as of time	Provide a timestamp to query table contents as of a specific time.
Include status details	Choose whether to include AWS Glue view creation or update status.
Attributes to get	Select which table fields to include in the result.

Output fields

Output field	Description
Tables	List of tables returned from the database.
Catalog ID	AWS Glue catalog ID used in the query.
Database name	Name of the database the tables belong to.
Is registered with lake formation	Indicates if the table is managed by Lake Formation.
Is row filtering enabled	Indicates if row-level filtering is enabled.
Name	Name of each table in the result.
Retention	Retention setting for each table.
Table type	Table type.
List size	Total number of results in the list.
List index	Position of each result in the returned list.