pvary commented on a change in pull request #1612:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/1612#discussion_r530252141



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File path: mr/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/mr/hive/HiveIcebergSerDe.java
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@@ -56,10 +61,28 @@ public void initialize(@Nullable Configuration 
configuration, Properties serDePr
     } else if (serDeProperties.get(InputFormatConfig.TABLE_SCHEMA) != null) {
       tableSchema = SchemaParser.fromJson((String) 
serDeProperties.get(InputFormatConfig.TABLE_SCHEMA));
     } else {
-      try {
-        tableSchema = Catalogs.loadTable(configuration, 
serDeProperties).schema();
-      } catch (NoSuchTableException nte) {
-        throw new SerDeException("Please provide an existing table or a valid 
schema", nte);
+      if (Catalogs.hiveCatalog(configuration)) {

Review comment:
       Thought better of it.
   Keep it simple and general. And branch only if we can have a clean benefit 
in the final solution.




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