diff --git a/src/api_helpers.jl b/src/api_helpers.jl
index 0bb5b3547..69e9b9e28 100644
--- a/src/api_helpers.jl
+++ b/src/api_helpers.jl
@@ -325,6 +325,23 @@ end
 ### Table Interface
 ###
 
+function h5tb_get_table_info(loc_id, table_name)
+    nfields = Ref{hsize_t}()
+    nrecords = Ref{hsize_t}()
+    h5tb_get_table_info(loc_id, table_name, nfields, nrecords)
+    return nfields[], nrecords[]
+end
+
+function h5tb_get_field_info(loc_id, table_name)
+    nfields, = h5tb_get_table_info(loc_id, table_name)
+    field_names = Vector{UInt8}[fill(0x00,255) for i in 1:2]
+    field_sizes = Vector{Csize_t}(undef,nfields)
+    field_offsets = Vector{Csize_t}(undef,nfields)
+    type_size = Ref{Csize_t}()
+    h5tb_get_field_info(loc_id, table_name, field_names, field_sizes, field_offsets, type_size)
+    return field_names, field_sizes, field_offsets, type_size
+end
+
 ###
 ### Filter Interface
 ###
diff --git a/test/dataspace.jl b/test/dataspace.jl
index 6103e0601..8891acb4f 100644
--- a/test/dataspace.jl
+++ b/test/dataspace.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+using HDF5
+using Test
+
 @testset "Dataspaces" begin
     hsize_t = HDF5.hsize_t
     # Reference objects without using high-level API
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index e3fc7806c..4dbc398af 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ include("external.jl")
 include("swmr.jl")
 include("mmap.jl")
 include("properties.jl")
+include("table.jl")
 
 try
     using MPI
diff --git a/test/table.jl b/test/table.jl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d33a10d0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/table.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+using HDF5
+using Test
+
+
+hf = h5open(tempname(), "w")
+
+fv = 3.14
+data = [1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,6.]
+floatsize = sizeof(data[1])
+h5t = datatype(data[1])
+title = "lal"
+name = "mym"
+nfield = 2
+nrec = 3
+recsize = nfield * floatsize
+colname = ["f1", "f2"]
+offset = [0,floatsize]
+tid = [h5t.id, h5t.id]
+chunk = 7
+fillvalue = [3.14, 2.71]
+compress = 1
+
+HDF5.h5tb_make_table(title, hf, name, nfield, nrec, recsize, colname, offset, tid, chunk, fillvalue, compress, data)
+fieldsize = [floatsize, floatsize]
+HDF5.h5tb_append_records(hf, name, nrec, recsize, offset, fieldsize, data)
+HDF5.h5tb_write_records(hf, name, 1, 4, recsize, offset, fieldsize, collect(1:8) .+ 20.0)
+buf = fill(0.0, 100)
+
+HDF5.h5tb_read_table(hf, name, recsize, offset, fieldsize, buf)
+@test buf[1:12] == [1.0, 2.0, 21.0, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0, 25.0, 26.0, 27.0, 28.0, 5.0, 6.0]
+buf .= 0.0
+HDF5.h5tb_read_records(hf, name, 2, 3, recsize, offset, fieldsize, buf)
+@test buf[1:6] == collect(23:28)
+
+h5nfields, h5nrec = HDF5.h5tb_get_table_info(hf, name)
+@test h5nfields == nfield
+@test h5nrec == 6