The unique name of the table. Values are of the formprojects/{project}/instances/{instance}/tables/[_a-zA-Z0-9][-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*. Views:NAME_ONLY,SCHEMA_VIEW,REPLICATION_VIEW,STATS_VIEW,FULL
Required. The list of fields to update. A mask specifying which fields (e.g.changeStreamConfig) in thetablefield should be updated. This mask is relative to thetablefield, not to the request message. The wildcard (*) path is currently not supported. Currently tables.patch is only supported for the following fields:
changeStreamConfig
changeStreamConfig.retention_period
deletionProtection
automatedBackupPolicy
automatedBackupPolicy.retention_period
automatedBackupPolicy.frequency
rowKeySchema
IfcolumnFamiliesis set inupdateMask, it will return an UNIMPLEMENTED error.
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example:"user.displayName,photo".
ignoreWarnings
boolean
Optional. If true, ignore safety checks when updating the table.
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