danielcweeks commented on code in PR #6045: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6045#discussion_r1021993031
########## hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveCatalog.java: ########## @@ -539,12 +577,22 @@ Database convertToDatabase(Namespace namespace, Map<String, String> meta) { database.setDescription(value); } else if (key.equals("location")) { database.setLocationUri(value); + } else if (key.equals(HMS_DB_OWNER)) { + database.setOwnerName(value); + } else if (key.equals(HMS_DB_OWNER_TYPE) && value != null) { + database.setOwnerType(PrincipalType.valueOf(value)); } else { if (value != null) { parameter.put(key, value); } } }); + + if (database.getOwnerName() == null) { + database.setOwnerName(System.getProperty("user.name")); Review Comment: You might want to consider falling back to `UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser()` as opposed to just the java user. I believe this is used in many placed by Spark and Hive to identify the current user and may be different from the process owner. -- 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 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