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====== Data Home (XDG_DATA_HOME) Connection ======


===== About =====

''data home'' is [[built-in|built-in connection]] that points to the [[https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/|xdg-data-home]] [[docs:resource:directory|directory]] of the [[docs:system:local|local file system]].

===== Usage =====

It's where application data is stored by default.

For instance, in a pipeline, data resources with [[:docs:flow:error_handling#parking|errors are parked]] in this location.




===== Modification =====
On Linux, you can change this directory by setting the ''XDG_DATA_HOME'' [[:docs:conf:os|env]]
===== Info =====
With the [[docs:tabul:connection:info|connection info]] command
<unit>
<code bash>
tabul connection info data-home
</code>
<console>
Information about the connection (data-home)
Attribute                    Value                                                Description
--------------------------   --------------------------------------------------   --------------------------------------------------------------------
BOOLEAN_DATA_TYPE            Native                                               Boolean data type used to store boolean values
CHAR_DEFAULT_PRECISION       1                                                    Default CHAR precision
COMMENT                      The data home directory (Default storage for data)   A connection description
DATE_DATA_TYPE               NATIVE                                               Date data type used to store date values
HOST                                                                              Host Server
MAX_CONCURRENT_THREAD                                                             The maximum number of threads that can be created against the system
MAX_NAME_IN_PATH                                                                  The maximum number of names in a path
NAME                         data-home                                            The name of the connection
NATIVES                                                                           Native Driver attributes (jdbc properties, ...)
NCHAR_DEFAULT_PRECISION      1                                                    Default NCHAR precision
NVARCHAR_DEFAULT_PRECISION   0                                                    Default NVARCHAR precision
ORIGIN                       BUILT_IN                                             The origin of the connection
PASSWORD                                                                          The user password
PORT                                                                              Host Port
TABULAR_FILE_TYPE            text/csv                                             The default media type when downloading tabular data
TIMESTAMP_DATA_TYPE          NATIVE                                               Timestamp data type used to store timestamp values
TIME_DATA_TYPE               NATIVE                                               Time format data type to store time values
URI                          file:///home/admin/.local/share/tabul/               The uri of the connection
USER                                                                              The user name
VARCHAR_DEFAULT_PRECISION    0                                                    Default VARCHAR precision
WORKING_PATH                 /home/admin/.local/share/tabul                       The working path (Schema for database, directory for file system)
</console>
</unit>