szehon-ho commented on code in PR #6591: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6591#discussion_r1084375766
########## hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveTableOperations.java: ########## @@ -268,10 +268,8 @@ protected void doRefresh() { @SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:CyclomaticComplexity") @Override protected void doCommit(TableMetadata base, TableMetadata metadata) { - String newMetadataLocation = - base == null && metadata.metadataFileLocation() != null - ? metadata.metadataFileLocation() - : writeNewMetadata(metadata, currentVersion() + 1); + boolean newTable = base == null; Review Comment: Thanks, I didn't see this. It's unrelated but now its possible, do you mind changing the condition on line 297 to use this boolean as well? ########## core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/BaseMetastoreTableOperations.java: ########## @@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ protected void disableRefresh() { this.shouldRefresh = false; } + protected String writeNewMetadataIfRequired(boolean isCreateTable, TableMetadata metadata) { Review Comment: Thanks, didn't see it. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org