szehon-ho commented on code in PR #6570:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6570#discussion_r1159183494


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hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/MetastoreUtil.java:
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@@ -48,14 +50,28 @@ public class MetastoreUtil {
   private MetastoreUtil() {}
 
   /**
-   * Calls alter_table method using the metastore client. If possible, an 
environmental context will
-   * be used that turns off stats updates to avoid recursive listing.
+   * Calls alter_table method using the metastore client. If the HMS supports 
then, environmental
+   * context with will be set in a way that turns off stats updates to avoid 
recursive file listing.
    */
   public static void alterTable(
       IMetaStoreClient client, String databaseName, String tblName, Table 
table) {
-    EnvironmentContext envContext =
-        new EnvironmentContext(
-            ImmutableMap.of(StatsSetupConst.DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS, 
StatsSetupConst.TRUE));
-    ALTER_TABLE.invoke(client, databaseName, tblName, table, envContext);
+    alterTable(client, databaseName, tblName, table, ImmutableMap.of());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Calls alter_table method using the metastore client. If the HMS supports 
then, environmental
+   * context with will be set in a way that turns off stats updates to avoid 
recursive file listing.
+   */
+  public static void alterTable(
+      IMetaStoreClient client,
+      String databaseName,
+      String tblName,
+      Table table,
+      Map<String, String> extraEnv) {
+    Map<String, String> env = Maps.newHashMapWithExpectedSize(extraEnv.size() 
+ 1);
+    env.putAll(extraEnv);
+    env.put(StatsSetupConst.DO_NOT_UPDATE_STATS, StatsSetupConst.TRUE);
+

Review Comment:
   Checking, if the version of alter_table does not support env context, it 
will throw an exception instead of silently fail?



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