szehon-ho commented on code in PR #6045: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6045#discussion_r1022032530
########## 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: Hi, its probably my fault here, @haizhou-zhao had this initially but it seemed there was some unresolved concern at the time : https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6045#discussion_r1004221149 , so I actually asked @haizhou-zhao to follow what the table implementation uses for consistency , and we could change both to UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser() later. But looks like its cleared up, @gaborkaszab ? If so we can go ahead and use UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser() here and then change table to be consistent as well? -- 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