Cognite Postgres Gateway Tables API
View and create foreign **tables** for a given **user**
View and create foreign **tables** for a given **user**
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Cognite Postgres Gateway Tables API
description: '# Introduction
This is the reference documentation for the Cognite API with
an overview of all the available methods.'
version: v1
contact:
name: Cognite Support
url: https://support.cognite.com
email: support@cognite.com
servers:
- url: https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}
description: The URL for the CDF cluster to connect to
variables:
cluster:
enum:
- api
- az-tyo-gp-001
- az-eastus-1
- az-power-no-northeurope
- westeurope-1
- asia-northeast1-1
- gc-dsm-gp-001
default: api
description: The CDF cluster to connect to
project:
default: publicdata
description: The CDF project name.
security:
- oidc-token:
- https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/.default
- oauth2-client-credentials:
- https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/.default
- oauth2-open-industrial-data:
- https://api.cognitedata.com/.default
- oauth2-auth-code:
- https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/.default
tags:
- name: Postgres Gateway Tables
description: View and create foreign **tables** for a given **user**
paths:
/postgresgateway/tables/{username}:
get:
tags:
- Postgres Gateway Tables
operationId: list_tables
x-capability:
- postgresGateway:READ
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/100Limit_'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Cursor'
- in: query
name: includeBuiltIns
description: Determines if API should return built-in tables or not
required: false
schema:
type: boolean
default: false
description: '> **Required capabilities:** `postgresGateway:READ`
List all tables in a given project. If more than `limit` tables exist, a cursor for pagination will be returned with the response.'
responses:
'200':
description: List of tables paginated
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemsWithCursor_Table_'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/400ErrorResponse'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError_'
summary: List tables
x-code-samples:
- lang: Python
label: Python SDK
source: "custom_table_list = client.postgres_gateway.tables.list(\"myUserName\", limit=5)\n\nfor table in client.postgres_gateway.tables:\n table # do something with the custom table\n\nfor table_list in client.postgres_gateway.tables(chunk_size=25):\n table_list # do something with the custom tables\n"
post:
tags:
- Postgres Gateway Tables
operationId: create_tables
x-capability:
- postgresGateway:WRITE
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
description: '> **Required capabilities:** `postgresGateway:WRITE`
Create up to 10 tables.'
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Items_CreateTable_'
description: List of tables to create
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemsWithoutCursor_TableCreated_'
description: List of created tables
'400':
description: Response of a failed request
$ref: '#/components/responses/400ErrorResponse'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError_'
summary: Create tables
x-code-samples:
- lang: Python
label: Python SDK
source: 'from cognite.client.data_classes.data_modeling import ViewId
from cognite.client.data_classes.postgres_gateway import ViewTableWrite
table = ViewTableWrite(tablename="myCustom", options=ViewId(space="mySpace", external_id="myExternalId", version="v1"))
res = client.postgres_gateway.tables.create("myUserName",table)
'
/postgresgateway/tables/{username}/byids:
post:
tags:
- Postgres Gateway Tables
operationId: retrieve_tables
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
x-capability: postgresGateway:READ
description: '> **Required capabilities:** `postgresGateway:READ`
Retreive a list of postgres tables for a user by their table names, optionally ignoring unknown table names'
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemsWithIgnoreUnknown_Tablename_'
responses:
'200':
description: List postgres tables by table names
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemsWithoutCursor_Table_'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/400ErrorResponse'
description: Response of a failed request
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError_'
summary: Retrieve tables
x-code-samples:
- lang: Python
label: Python SDK
source: 'res = client.postgres_gateway.tables.retrieve("myUserName", ''myCustom'')
res = client.postgres_gateway.tables.retrieve("myUserName", ["myCustom", "myCustom2"])
'
/postgresgateway/tables/{username}/delete:
post:
tags:
- Postgres Gateway Tables
operationId: delete_tables
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
x-capability:
- postgresGateway: WRITE
description: '> **Required capabilities:** `[object Object]`
Delete up to 10 tables'
requestBody:
required: true
description: Tables to delete
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ItemsWithIgnoreUnknown_Tablename_'
responses:
'200':
$ref: '#/components/responses/EmptyResponse'
description: Empty response
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/400ErrorResponse'
'422':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError_'
summary: Delete tables
x-code-samples:
- lang: Python
label: Python SDK
source: 'client.postgres_gateway.tables.delete("myUserName", ["myCustom", "myCustom2"])
'
components:
schemas:
TableType:
enum:
- raw_rows
- built_in
- nodes
- edges
type: string
title: TableType
description: The type of table (usually built_in) but could be any of raw_rows, nodes or edges when custom.
CreateFdmTable:
type: object
title: Create Fdm table
additionalProperties: false
required:
- type
- tablename
- options
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateTable_'
- type: object
properties:
type:
enum:
- view
title: Type
type: string
options:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/FdmTableOptions'
discriminator:
propertyName: type
ItemsWithoutCursor_Table_:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
properties:
items:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Table'
title: Items
type: array
required:
- items
Tablename:
type: string
title: Tablename
maxLength: 60
minLength: 1
FdmTableOptions:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
description: Fdm table options
required:
- space
- externalId
properties:
space:
type: string
externalId:
type: string
version:
type: string
ItemsWithoutCursor_TableCreated_:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
properties:
items:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TableCreated'
title: Items
type: array
required:
- items
CreateTable:
type: object
title: Create Table
additionalProperties: false
discriminator:
mapping:
raw_rows: '#/components/schemas/CreateRawTable'
view: '#/components/schemas/CreateFdmTable'
propertyName: type
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateRawTable'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateFdmTable'
ItemsWithIgnoreUnknown_Tablename_:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
title: List of postgres table names
required:
- items
properties:
items:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TablenameWrapper'
title: Items
type: array
maxItems: 10
minItems: 1
ignoreUnknownIds:
type: boolean
title: IgnoreUnknown
description: Ignore table names not found
Column_:
type: object
description: Foreign table columns.
additionalProperties:
type: object
required:
- type
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- TEXT
- VARCHAR
- BOOL
- BIGINT
- DOUBLE PRECISION
- REAL
- TIMESTAMPTZ
- JSON
- TEXT[]
- VARCHAR[]
- BOOL[]
- BIGINT[]
- DOUBLE PRECISION[]
- REAL[]
- JSON[]
- BYTEA
Error:
type: object
required:
- code
- message
description: Cognite API error.
properties:
code:
type: integer
description: HTTP status code.
format: int32
example: 401
message:
type: string
description: Error message.
example: Could not authenticate.
missing:
type: array
description: List of lookup objects that do not match any results.
items:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
duplicated:
type: array
description: List of objects that are not unique.
items:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
CreateTable_:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
required:
- type
- tablename
properties:
type:
enum:
- raw_rows
- view
title: Type
type: string
tablename:
type: string
title: Tablename
maxLength: 60
minLength: 1
description: 'Name of the foreign table.\
__CANNOT__ be any of the the built-in table names found [here](https://docs.cognite.com/cdf/integration/guides/interfaces/ingest_into_raw#create-a-table)
'
ValidationErrorContent_:
type: object
required:
- code
- message
description: Cognite API error.
properties:
code:
type: integer
description: HTTP status code.
format: int32
example: 422
message:
type: string
description: Error message.
example: 'Extra inputs are not permitted: type'
Username:
type: string
title: Username
description: Username to authenticate the user on the DB.
RawTableOptions:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
description: Raw rows options
required:
- database
- table
properties:
database:
type: string
table:
type: string
primaryKey:
type: string
ItemsWithCursor_Table_:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
properties:
items:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Table'
title: Items
type: array
maxItems: 100
minItems: 0
nextCursor:
type: string
title: Next cursor
description: Cursor for pagination
required:
- items
TableOptions:
description: Table options
title: Table Options
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/FdmTableOptions'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/RawTableOptions'
Items_CreateTable_:
additionalProperties: false
required:
- items
properties:
items:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateTable'
title: Items
type: array
minItems: 1
maxItems: 10
EpochTimestamp:
description: The number of milliseconds since 00:00:00 Thursday, 1 January 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), minus leap seconds.
type: integer
minimum: 0
format: int64
example: 1730204346000
Table:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
title: (Custom) Table
description: Foreign tables
required:
- type
- columns
- tablename
properties:
columns:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Column_'
options:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TableOptions'
type:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TableType'
tablename:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tablename'
TableCreated:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
title: Table Created Response
description: Foreign tables
required:
- type
- columns
- tablename
- createdTime
properties:
columns:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Column_'
options:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TableOptions'
createdTime:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EpochTimestamp'
type:
type: string
title: Table Type
enum:
- raw_rows
- view
tablename:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tablename'
TablenameWrapper:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
required:
- tablename
properties:
tablename:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tablename'
CreateRawTable:
type: object
title: Create Raw Table
additionalProperties: false
required:
- type
- options
- columns
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateTable_'
- type: object
properties:
type:
enum:
- raw_rows
title: Type
type: string
options:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/RawTableOptions'
columns:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Column_'
discriminator:
propertyName: type
responses:
EmptyResponse:
description: Empty response.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
ValidationError_:
description: Validation Error
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- error
properties:
error:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationErrorContent_'
400ErrorResponse:
description: The response for a bad request.
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- error
properties:
error:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
example:
error:
code: 400
message: '`null` values aren''t allowed.'
parameters:
Username:
name: username
description: The name of the username (a.k.a. database) to be managed from the API
in: path
required: true
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Username'
Cursor:
name: cursor
description: 'Cursor for paging through results. In general, if a response contains a `nextCursor`
property, it means that there may be more results, and you should pass that value as the
`cursor` parameter in the next request.
Note that the cursor may or may not be encrypted, but either way, it is not intended to be
decoded. Its internal structure is not a part of the public API, and may change without
notice. You should treat it as an opaque string and not attempt to craft your own cursors.
'
in: query
schema:
type: string
example: 4zj0Vy2fo0NtNMb229mI9r1V3YG5NBL752kQz1cKtwo
100Limit_:
name: limit
description: Limits the number of results to be returned. The maximum results returned by the server is 100 even if you specify a higher limit.
in: query
schema:
type: integer
default: 100
minimum: 1
maximum: 100
securitySchemes:
oidc-token:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: OpenID Connect or OAuth2 token
description: Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
oauth2-client-credentials:
type: oauth2
description: Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
flows:
clientCredentials:
tokenUrl: https://your-idps.token.url/
scopes:
default: https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/.default
oauth2-auth-code:
type: oauth2
description: Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: https://your-idps.authorization.url/
tokenUrl: https://your-idps.token.url/
scopes:
default: https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/.default
oauth2-open-industrial-data:
type: oauth2
description: Auth flow for Open Industrial Data. Get your client secret from https://hub.cognite.com/open-industrial-data-211.
flows:
clientCredentials:
tokenUrl: https://login.microsoftonline.com/48d5043c-cf70-4c49-881c-c638f5796997/oauth2/v2.0/token
scopes:
default: https://api.cognitedata.com/.default
org-oidc-token:
type: openIdConnect
openIdConnectUrl: https://auth.cognite.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
description: 'Access token issued by the Cognite authorization server, and valid for the target organization. The token must
be an OpenID Connect token, and it can be obtained by performing an OIDC login flow toward `auth.cognite.com`.
This is a single URL for all CDF organizations.'
x-tagGroups:
- name: Changelog
tags:
- Changelog
- name: Organizations and projects
tags:
- Organizations
- Projects
- name: Identity and access management
tags:
- Principals
- Groups
- Security categories
- Sessions
- Token
- User profiles
- Project Deletion Reporting
- name: Data modeling
tags:
- Data Modeling
- Data models
- Spaces
- Views
- Containers
- Nodes
- Instances
- Statistics
- Streams
- Records
- name: Asset-centric data model
tags:
- Assets
- Time series
- Synthetic Time Series
- Data point subscriptions
- Events
- Files
- Sequences
- Geospatial
- Seismic
- name: 3D
tags:
- 3D Models
- 3D Model Revisions
- 3D Files
- 3D Asset Mapping
- 3D Contextualization
- 3D Jobs
- 3D Migration
- 3D Scenes
- name: Contextualization
tags:
- Entity matching
- Entity matching pipelines
- Engineering diagrams
- Vision
- Advanced joins
- name: Cognite AI
tags:
- Agents
- Skills
- Chat Completions
- Document AI
- Models
- name: Documents
tags:
- Documents
- Document preview
- name: Data ingestion
tags:
- Raw
- Extraction Pipelines
- Extraction Pipelines Runs
- Extraction Pipelines Config
- Extractors
- name: Data organization
tags:
- Data sets
- Data domains
- Data products
- Rule sets
- Labels
- Relationships
- Annotations
- name: Transformations
tags:
- Transformations
- Transformation Jobs
- Transformation Schedules
- Transformation Notifications
- Query
- Schema
- name: Functions
tags:
- Functions
- Function calls
- Function schedules
- name: Hosted Extractors
tags:
- Sources
- Jobs
- Destinations
- Mappings
- name: PostgreSQL Gateway
tags:
- Postgres Gateway Users
- Postgres Gateway Tables
- name: SAP Writeback
tags:
- SAP Instances
- SAP Endpoints
- Schema Mappings
- Writeback Requests
- name: Data workflows
tags:
- Workflows
- Workflow versions
- Workflow executions
- Workflow triggers
- Tasks
- Workers
- name: Simulators
tags:
- Simulators
- Simulator Integrations
- Simulator Models
- Simulator Routines
- Simulation Runs
- Simulator Logs
- name: Units
tags:
- Units
- Unit Systems
- name: ''
tags:
- ''