Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions

Describes the properties of specific major versions of DB engines.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

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: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50.

Required: No

MajorEngineVersion

A specific database major engine version to return details for.

Example: 8.4

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50.

Required: No

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: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 340.

Required: No

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

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 20. Maximum value of 100.

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

DBMajorEngineVersions.DBMajorEngineVersion.N

A list of DBMajorEngineVersion elements.

Type: Array of DBMajorEngineVersion objects

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: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions.

Sample Request


https://rds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=DescribeDBMajorEngineVersions
   &MaxRecords=100 
   &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 
   &SignatureVersion=4
   &Version=2014-10-31
   &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
   &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20140421/us-west-2/rds/aws4_request
   &X-Amz-Date=20140421T194732Z
   &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date
   &X-Amz-Signature=4772d17a4c43bcd209ff42a0778dd23e73f8434253effd7ac53b89ade3dad45f

Sample Response


<DescribeDBMajorEngineVersionsResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/">
  <DescribeDBMajorEngineVersionsResult>
    <DBMajorEngineVersions>
      <DBMajorEngineVersion>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <MajorEngineVersion>8.0</MajorEngineVersion>
      </DBMajorEngineVersion>
      <DBMajorEngineVersion>
        <Engine>mysql</Engine>
        <MajorEngineVersion>8.0</MajorEngineVersion>
        <SupportedEngineLifecycles>
          <LifecycleSupportName>open-source-rds-standard-support</LifecycleSupportName>
          <LifecycleSupportStartDate>2021-08-26T00:00:00+00:00</LifecycleSupportStartDate>
          <LifecycleSupportEndDate>2026-02-28T23:59:59.999000+00:00</LifecycleSupportEndDate>
        </SupportedEngineLifecycles>
      </DBMajorEngineVersion>
  </DescribeDBMajorEngineVersionsResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>b74d2635-b98c-11d3-fbc7-5c0aad74da7c</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeDBMajorEngineVersionsResponse>