RussellSpitzer commented on code in PR #12228:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12228#discussion_r1990161331


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/BaseMetastoreCatalog.java:
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@@ -71,23 +70,35 @@ public Table loadTable(TableIdentifier identifier) {
   }
 
   @Override
-  public Table registerTable(TableIdentifier identifier, String 
metadataFileLocation) {
+  public Table registerTable(
+      TableIdentifier identifier, String metadataFileLocation, boolean 
overwrite) {
     Preconditions.checkArgument(
         identifier != null && isValidIdentifier(identifier), "Invalid 
identifier: %s", identifier);
     Preconditions.checkArgument(
         metadataFileLocation != null && !metadataFileLocation.isEmpty(),
         "Cannot register an empty metadata file location as a table");
 
-    // Throw an exception if this table already exists in the catalog.
-    if (tableExists(identifier)) {
+    // If the table already exists and overwriting is disabled, throw an 
exception.
+    if (tableExists(identifier) && !overwrite) {
       throw new AlreadyExistsException("Table already exists: %s", identifier);
     }
 
     TableOperations ops = newTableOps(identifier);
-    InputFile metadataFile = ops.io().newInputFile(metadataFileLocation);
-    TableMetadata metadata = TableMetadataParser.read(ops.io(), metadataFile);
-    ops.commit(null, metadata);
-
+    TableMetadata newMetadata =
+        TableMetadataParser.read(ops.io(), 
ops.io().newInputFile(metadataFileLocation));
+
+    TableMetadata existing = ops.current();
+    if (existing != null && overwrite) {
+      if (existing.metadataFileLocation().equals(metadataFileLocation)) {
+        LOG.info(
+            "The requested metadata matches the existing metadata. No changes 
will be committed.");
+        return new BaseTable(ops, fullTableName(name(), identifier), 
metricsReporter());
+      }
+      dropTable(identifier, false /* Keep all data and metadata files */);

Review Comment:
   I think I have a disagreement here. I think the behavior should be identical 
to the registerTable without overwrite. The file that is being passed is the 
file that should be used for registration. For example, if i'm updating an 
table to match an existing one and I rely on the metadata.json path to tell 
what files are copied (like in dr) having a different file name could be really 
make things difficult.



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