[GitHub] [iceberg] marton-bod commented on issue #2554: Cannot Drop Table Created with HiveIcebergStorageHandler Enabled but Metadata.json is Missing

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marton-bod commented on issue #2554:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/2554#issuecomment-833449999


   This is a good point, and I think we can and should guard against that. The table currently becomes undroppable only because we try to load the Iceberg table prior to dropping the HMS table. We do this because Hive2 and Hive3 do not clean up the metadata folder completely so we need to cache the io to perform the deletion later. 
   
   What we can do instead is try to load the Iceberg table as it is, but if it fails, just log a warning message that the table was unloadable for whatever reason, but otherwise proceed with the HMS table drop. This might leave some undeleted metadata files behind but it's still much better than leaving the table undroppable.


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