RDS / Client / describe_db_major_engine_versions
describe_db_major_engine_versions¶
- RDS.Client.describe_db_major_engine_versions(**kwargs)¶
Describes the properties of specific major versions of DB engines.
See also: AWS API Documentation
Request Syntax
response = client.describe_db_major_engine_versions( Engine='string', MajorEngineVersion='string', Marker='string', MaxRecords=123 )
- Parameters:
Engine (string) –
The database engine to return major version details for.
Valid Values:
aurora-mysql
aurora-postgresql
custom-sqlserver-ee
custom-sqlserver-se
custom-sqlserver-web
db2-ae
db2-se
mariadb
mysql
oracle-ee
oracle-ee-cdb
oracle-se2
oracle-se2-cdb
postgres
sqlserver-ee
sqlserver-se
sqlserver-ex
sqlserver-web
MajorEngineVersion (string) –
A specific database major engine version to return details for.
Example:
8.4
Marker (string) – An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by
MaxRecords
.MaxRecords (integer) –
The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more than the
MaxRecords
value is available, a pagination token called a marker is included in the response so you can retrieve the remaining results.Default: 100
- Return type:
dict
- Returns:
Response Syntax
{ 'DBMajorEngineVersions': [ { 'Engine': 'string', 'MajorEngineVersion': 'string', 'SupportedEngineLifecycles': [ { 'LifecycleSupportName': 'open-source-rds-standard-support'|'open-source-rds-extended-support', 'LifecycleSupportStartDate': datetime(2015, 1, 1), 'LifecycleSupportEndDate': datetime(2015, 1, 1) }, ] }, ], 'Marker': 'string' }
Response Structure
(dict) –
DBMajorEngineVersions (list) –
A list of
DBMajorEngineVersion
elements.(dict) –
This data type is used as a response element in the operation
DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions
.Engine (string) –
The name of the database engine.
MajorEngineVersion (string) –
The major version number of the database engine.
SupportedEngineLifecycles (list) –
A list of the lifecycles supported by this engine for the
DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions
operation.(dict) –
This data type is used as a response element in the operation
DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions
.You can use the information that this data type returns to plan for upgrades.
This data type only returns information for the open source engines Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL.
LifecycleSupportName (string) –
The type of lifecycle support that the engine version is in.
This parameter returns the following values:
open-source-rds-standard-support
- Indicates RDS standard support or Aurora standard support.open-source-rds-extended-support
- Indicates Amazon RDS Extended Support.
For Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL, this parameter returns both
open-source-rds-standard-support
andopen-source-rds-extended-support
.For Amazon RDS for MariaDB, this parameter only returns the value
open-source-rds-standard-support
.For information about Amazon RDS Extended Support, see Amazon RDS Extended Support with Amazon RDS in the Amazon RDS User Guide and Amazon RDS Extended Support with Amazon Aurora in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.
LifecycleSupportStartDate (datetime) –
The start date for the type of support returned by
LifecycleSupportName
.LifecycleSupportEndDate (datetime) –
The end date for the type of support returned by
LifecycleSupportName
.
Marker (string) –
An optional pagination token provided by a previous request. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by
MaxRecords
.