danielcweeks commented on code in PR #11597:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11597#discussion_r1879074770
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hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveCatalog.java:
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@@ -412,6 +412,43 @@ private void validateTableIsIcebergTableOrView(
}
}
+ /**
+ * Check whether table or metadata table exists.
+ *
+ * <p>Note: If a hive table with the same identifier exists in catalog, this
method will return
+ * {@code false}.
+ *
+ * @param identifier a table identifier
+ * @return true if the table exists, false otherwise
+ */
+ @Override
+ public boolean tableExists(TableIdentifier identifier) {
+ TableIdentifier baseTableIdentifier = identifier;
+ if (!isValidIdentifier(identifier)) {
+ if (!isValidMetadataIdentifier(identifier)) {
+ return false;
Review Comment:
Minor behavior issue here. Currently if it's an invalid identifier, it will
throw as opposed to returning false.
```
throw new NoSuchTableException("Invalid table identifier: %s", identifier);
```
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