kbendick commented on a change in pull request #3573:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3573#discussion_r766172126



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File path: 
spark/v3.2/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkCatalog.java
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@@ -370,13 +371,21 @@ public void alterNamespace(String[] namespace, 
NamespaceChange... changes) throw
   }
 
   @Override
-  public boolean dropNamespace(String[] namespace) throws 
NoSuchNamespaceException {
+  // Spark assumes that catalogs CASCADE by default. So we have to eagerly
+  // attempt to drop namespaces and tables, but the CASCADE keyword is still
+  // required to actually drop tables and namespaces.
+  //
+  // TODO - Somehow this got rid of the checked NoSuchNamespaceException.
+  //        I don't think we should check for it and throw if it's not present,
+  //        as we don't know if the user used `if not exists` or not.

Review comment:
       Ok. Got `NoSuchNamespaceException` back in here and can assert on it in 
the tests.




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