RussellSpitzer commented on a change in pull request #1784:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/1784#discussion_r526401342



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File path: spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/BaseSparkAction.java
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@@ -137,7 +138,19 @@
     }
     // Try catalog based name based resolution
     try {
-      return spark.table(tableName + "." + type);
+      if (tableName.startsWith("spark_catalog")) {
+        // Do to the design of Spark, we cannot pass multi element namespaces 
to the session catalog
+        // We also don't know whether the Catalog is Hive or Hadoop Based, so 
we will try to load it
+        // in the hive manner first, then fall back and try the location if we 
have completely run out of options
+        // TODO remove this when we have Spark workaround for multipart 
identifiers in SparkSessionCatalog
+        try {
+          return 
noCatalogReader.load(tableName.replaceFirst("spark_catalog\\.", "") + "." + 
type);

Review comment:
       One huge drawback to this is we can't actually use any Catalog Options 
that have been specified, so if we have options in the future than alter the 
way a Metadata table is read we won't have them here.




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