Milvus Metadata Management (2) Fields in the Metadata Table
Dec 27, 2019Yihua Mo

Summary
This post details the fields within Milvus's metadata tables (`Tables` and `TableFiles`) for versions 0.5.0 and 0.6.0. It explains the purpose and data types of fields related to table configuration (e.g., dimension, index type, metric type), state, and file management (e.g., file size, row count, file type). It also introduces new fields added in 0.6.0 for partition management, such as `owner_table` and `partition_tag`.
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