Glossary

This chapter defines design-specific terms used in the architecture documentation.

General project terms are defined in System Requirements.

Desired State

The requested end state of a managed Exasol object. state=present means that the object should exist, while state=absent means that the object should not exist.

Check-Mode No-Action Prediction

A check-mode result indicating that the current object state already matches the desired state. The runtime reports changed=false, preserves the observed exists value, and reports no state-changing statements in executed_queries. Metadata queries used to observe the current state may still execute.

The equivalent scenarios are:

Current object state	Desired state	Equivalent scenario wording
Object exists	state=present	Check mode predicts no action when object exists
Object does not exist	state=absent	Check mode predicts no action when object does not exist