szehon-ho commented on code in PR #6621: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6621#discussion_r1084720439
########## hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveTableOperations.java: ########## @@ -494,6 +494,17 @@ private void setHmsTableParameters( // remove any props from HMS that are no longer present in Iceberg table props obsoleteProps.forEach(parameters::remove); + // altering owner + if (metadata.properties().get(HiveCatalog.HMS_TABLE_OWNER) != null) { + tbl.setOwner(metadata.properties().get(HiveCatalog.HMS_TABLE_OWNER)); + } + + // dropping owner: instead of leaving the owner blank/null, the owner will be + // default to whoever is making the current drop operation + if (obsoleteProps.contains(HiveCatalog.HMS_TABLE_OWNER)) { Review Comment: I like option 2, I think metadata file should be consistent with HMS metadata. @gaborkaszab what do you think? -- 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