Fokko commented on issue #123:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/123#issuecomment-1791855246
Thanks for raising this @pdames
In hindsight, I think adding the catalog name to the identifier was a bad
choice. We tried to mimic the behavior of Java, but I don't see any advantages
of having this (since we have a reference to the catalog anyway).
If you want to refresh a table, you could also run:
```python
table = catalog.load_table(("test_namespace", "test_table")) # tuple
identifier also works...
table.refresh()
```
However, I still think that your example should work as well.
Removing it will break existing behavior, so I think @danielcweeks's
suggestion is best. We probably also want to fix this for the
renaming/delete/etc scenario:
```python
catalog.rename_table(table.identifier, 'database.new_table_name')
catalog.drop_table(table.identifier)
catalog.purge_table(table.identifier)
```
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