Hi Eric Thanks for the heads up and the fix on namespaces.
I agree that it should be also fixed for tables, for consistency. And I think we can consider this as a "bug". I will test on both namespaces and tables, also evaluating the "impacts" for users. Regards JB On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM Eric Maynard <eric.w.mayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi team, > > I recently filed PR#2422 <https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2422> and > there was an ask there about creating a mailing list thread for discussion. > > The tl;dr of this change is that Polaris currently allows the creation of > namespaces & tables outside of a catalog allowed-locations. The PR fixes > this behavior for namespaces, which in turn should also fix at least some > scenarios where tables can be created outside of allows-locations as well. > There will be some followup work to fix the behavior for tables more > generally, but the PR is scoped just to namespace locations. > > This does represent a small behavior change OOTB, as namespaces that were > previously OK to create in a given (potentially unsafe) location will now > not be able to be created. > > If you're interested in this change or the related investigation please > feel free to comment here, on the PR, or on the issue linked to the PR. > > Cheers, > > Eric M.
