Tool: update_database_schema
Update schema for a given database.
The following sample demonstrate how to use curl
to invoke the update_database_schema
MCP tool.
| Curl Request |
|---|
curl --location 'https://spanner.googleapis.com/mcp' \ --header 'content-type: application/json' \ --header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \ --data '{ "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "update_database_schema", "arguments": { // provide these details according to the tool' s MCP specification } } , "jsonrpc" : "2.0" , "id" : 1 } ' |
Input Schema
Enqueues the given DDL statements to be applied, in order but not necessarily all at once, to the database schema at some point (or points) in the future. The server checks that the statements are executable (syntactically valid, name tables that exist, etc.) before enqueueing them, but they may still fail upon later execution (for example, if a statement from another batch of statements is applied first and it conflicts in some way, or if there is some data-related problem like a NULL
value in a column to which NOT NULL
would be added). If a statement fails, all subsequent statements in the batch are automatically cancelled.
Each batch of statements is assigned a name which can be used with the Operations
API to monitor progress. See the operation_id
field for more details.
UpdateDatabaseDdlRequest
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "database" : string , "statements" : [ string ] , "operationId" : string , "protoDescriptors" : string } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
database
|
Required. The database to update. |
statements[]
|
Required. DDL statements to be applied to the database. |
operationId
|
If empty, the new update request is assigned an automatically-generated operation ID. Otherwise, Specifying an explicit operation ID simplifies determining whether the statements were executed in the event that the |
protoDescriptors
|
Optional. Proto descriptors used by CREATE/ALTER PROTO BUNDLE statements. Contains a protobuf-serialized google.protobuf.FileDescriptorSet
. To generate it, install
and run
For more details, see protobuffer self description . A base64-encoded string. |
Output Schema
This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call.
Operation
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "name" : string , "metadata" : { "@type" : string , field1 : ... , ... } , "done" : boolean , // Union field |
name
string
The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the name
should be a resource name ending with operations/{unique_id}
.
metadata
object
Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.
An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type"
contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }
.
done
boolean
If the value is false
, it means the operation is still in progress. If true
, the operation is completed, and either error
or response
is available.
result
. The operation result, which can be either an error
or a valid response
. If done
== false
, neither error
nor response
is set. If done
== true
, exactly one of error
or response
can be set. Some services might not provide the result. result
can be only one of the following:error
object (
Status
)
The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.
response
object
The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete
, the response is google.protobuf.Empty
. If the original method is standard Get
/ Create
/ Update
, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type XxxResponse
, where Xxx
is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is TakeSnapshot()
, the inferred response type is TakeSnapshotResponse
.
An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type"
contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }
.
Any
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "typeUrl" : string , "value" : string } |
typeUrl
string
A URL/resource name that uniquely identifies the type of the serialized protocol buffer message. This string must contain at least one "/" character. The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully qualified name of the type (as in path/google.protobuf.Duration
). The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is not accepted).
In practice, teams usually precompile into the binary all types that they expect it to use in the context of Any. However, for URLs which use the scheme http
, https
, or no scheme, one can optionally set up a type server that maps type URLs to message definitions as follows:
- If no scheme is provided,
httpsis assumed. - An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a
google.protobuf.Typevalue in binary format, or produce an error. - Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage breaking changes.)
Note: this functionality is not currently available in the official protobuf release, and it is not used for type URLs beginning with type.googleapis.com. As of May 2023, there are no widely used type server implementations and no plans to implement one.
Schemes other than http
, https
(or the empty scheme) might be used with implementation specific semantics.
value
string ( bytes
format)
Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.
A base64-encoded string.
Status
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "code" : integer , "message" : string , "details" : [ { "@type" : string , field1 : ... , ... } ] } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
code
|
The status code, which should be an enum value of |
message
|
A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the |
details[]
|
A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use. An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field |
Tool Annotations
Destructive Hint: ✅ | Idempotent Hint: ❌ | Read Only Hint: ❌ | Open World Hint: ❌

