[GitHub] [incubator-iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #751: Add an option to decide whether to delete data files in Catalog.dropTable()

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rdblue commented on issue #751: Add an option to decide whether to delete data files in Catalog.dropTable()
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/issues/751#issuecomment-581184344
 
 
   I think you're saying you want a purge option that deletes metadata, but not data?
   
   I'm very reluctant to add cases like this to the API. We want to keep the API small, and I think this may be specific to your use case. What about doing this in the application that creates the staging tables instead? You'd set purge=false when dropping the table and then clean up the metadata using your own code. Would that work?

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