guykhazma opened a new issue, #12125: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12125
### Feature Request / Improvement We have a scenario where we have tables created with Hive Catalog and then in a separate application we would like to be able to define a Hadoop Catalog that shares the same warehouse location so that we can read the tables without having to setup a metastore. This is currently failing because Hadoop Catalog and Hive Catalog are using two different code paths for the naming of metadata files. Hadoop Catalog is using its [own function](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/8e456aeeabd0a40b23864edadd622b45cb44572c/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hadoop/HadoopTableOperations.java#L258) for getting the metadata path which concatenates the metadata version with the file extension resulting in a path like this: ``` v1.metadata.json ``` Hive Catalog on the other hand is using a [different function](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/8e456aeeabd0a40b23864edadd622b45cb44572c/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/BaseMetastoreTableOperations.java#L321) which concatenates the version with UUID and then the file extension resulting in a path like this: ``` 00000-f34d4846-3c7a-4967-a6fa-30e8cce6eeac.metadata.json ``` I can submit a PR with a potential fix for this but I am not sure if there was a reason for having different naming convention between the two catalogs. ### Query engine Spark ### Willingness to contribute - [ ] I can contribute this improvement/feature independently - [x] I would be willing to contribute this improvement/feature with guidance from the Iceberg community - [ ] I cannot contribute this improvement/feature at this time -- 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.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
