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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