pvary commented on code in PR #8907:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/8907#discussion_r1447409989


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hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveTableOperations.java:
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@@ -142,9 +143,15 @@ public FileIO io() {
   @Override
   protected void doRefresh() {
     String metadataLocation = null;
+    Table table = null;
+
     try {
-      Table table = metaClients.run(client -> client.getTable(database, 
tableName));
-      HiveOperationsBase.validateTableIsIceberg(table, fullName);
+      table = metaClients.run(client -> client.getTable(database, tableName));
+      HiveOperationsBase.validateTableOrViewIsIceberg(table, fullName);
+
+      if 
(table.getTableType().equalsIgnoreCase(TableType.VIRTUAL_VIEW.name())) {

Review Comment:
   IIRC the decision was to do not use the HMS tableType for this. Shouldn't we 
use `BaseMetastoreTableOperations.TABLE_TYPE_PROP` property instead?



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