szehon-ho commented on a change in pull request #4255:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4255#discussion_r828419326
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File path: docs/spark/spark-queries.md
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@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ To inspect a table's history, snapshots, and other
metadata, Iceberg supports me
Metadata tables are identified by adding the metadata table name after the
original table name. For example, history for `db.table` is read using
`db.table.history`.
{{< hint info >}}
-As of Spark 3.0, the format of the table name for inspection
(`catalog.database.table.metadata`) doesn't work with Spark's default catalog
(`spark_catalog`). If you've replaced the default catalog, you may want to use
`DataFrameReader` API to inspect the table.
+For Spark 2.4, use the `DataFrameReader` API to [inspect
tables](#inspecting-with-dataframes).
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+For Spark 3, prior to 3.2, the Spark [session
catalog](../spark-configuration#replacing-the-session-catalog) does not support
table names with multipart identifiers such as
`catalog.database.table.metadata`. As a workaround, configure a catalog that
uses `org.apache.iceberg.spark.SparkCatalog`, or use the Spark
`DataFrameReader` API.
Review comment:
Yea that works (can we change it to 'a' as org.apache... does not start
with a vowel?). I see what you mean, but I guess confusion to me was , 'a
catalog using the class org.apache.iceberg.spark.SparkCatalog', seemed to
indicate another catalog that uses this internally.
OK I hope so about the link.
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