Amazon Relational Database Service

Describes the properties of specific major versions of DB engines.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

client.describe_db_major_engine_versions(
    Engine='string',
    MajorEngineVersion='string',
    Marker='string',
    MaxRecords=123
)

type Engine:

string

param Engine:

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

type MajorEngineVersion:

string

param MajorEngineVersion:

A specific database major engine version to return details for.

Example: 8.4

type Marker:

string

param Marker:

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.

type MaxRecords:

integer

param MaxRecords:

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

rtype:

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 and open-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.