[GitHub] [iceberg] wypoon commented on a diff in pull request #5645: [Docs] Update drop table behavior in spark-ddl docs

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wypoon commented on code in PR #5645:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5645#discussion_r973468131


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docs/spark-ddl.md:
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@@ -132,12 +132,28 @@ The new table properties in the `REPLACE TABLE` command will be merged with any
 
 ## `DROP TABLE`
 
-To delete a table, run:
+The drop table behavior changed in 0.14.
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+Prior to 0.14, running `DROP TABLE` would remove the table from the catalog and delete the table contents as well.
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+From 0.14 onwards, `DROP TABLE` would only remove the table from the catalog.
+In order to delete the table contents `DROP TABLE PURGE` should be used.

Review Comment:
   Is it worth mentioning that gc.enabled has to be true for the contents to be deleted?



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