[GitHub] [iceberg] szehon-ho commented on a diff in pull request #5510: Support delete corrupted Iceberg table

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szehon-ho commented on code in PR #5510:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5510#discussion_r950661835


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hive-metastore/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveCatalog.java:
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@@ -169,9 +170,14 @@ public boolean dropTable(TableIdentifier identifier, boolean purge) {
 
     TableOperations ops = newTableOps(identifier);
     TableMetadata lastMetadata;
-    if (purge && ops.current() != null) {
-      lastMetadata = ops.current();
-    } else {
+    try {
+      if (purge && ops.current() != null) {
+        lastMetadata = ops.current();
+      } else {
+        lastMetadata = null;

Review Comment:
   Style nit: Wondering, while we are in this code, it may be a bit more concise to initialize lastMetadata = null, then we can remove two null assignments in the else/catch blocks?  Not sure what people think, though its not a big in any case.



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