rdblue commented on a change in pull request #3861:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3861#discussion_r781562623



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File path: 
spark/v3.0/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/BaseCatalog.java
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@@ -45,4 +45,17 @@ public Procedure loadProcedure(Identifier ident) throws 
NoSuchProcedureException
 
     throw new NoSuchProcedureException(ident);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Invalidate cached table metadata from current catalog.
+   * <p>
+   * If the table is already loaded or cached, drop cached data. If the table 
does not exist or is
+   * not cached, do nothing.
+   *
+   * @param ident a table identifier
+   * @return true if the table is cached, false otherwise
+   */
+  public boolean invalidateTableIfCached(Identifier ident) {

Review comment:
       I don't think that we need this method. We only need to check whether 
the Iceberg cache had the table. No need to change the Spark catalog methods.




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