rdblue commented on issue #7979:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/7979#issuecomment-1620797933
I think the current behavior of `StaticTable` is what we want to encourage.
If you want to find the "latest" using some file-level operation then that's up
to you. But a static table should always be given a fully qualified location
for the metadata file. We don't want to confuse people or introduce incorrect
behavior by guessing which metadata file is correct.
That said, we could possibly have a method to "recover" table metadata by
guessing. That way you could get the same result, but it is clear that you're
doing something that is dangerous.
```python
io = ArrowFileIO(**config)
metadata_location = recover_metadata("s3://bucket/path/to/table", io)
table = StaticTable.from_metadata(metadata_location, config)
```
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