[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on a diff in pull request #5327: Support resetTable procedure

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rdblue commented on code in PR #5327:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5327#discussion_r934011112


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api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/catalog/Catalog.java:
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@@ -347,6 +347,17 @@ default Table registerTable(TableIdentifier identifier, String metadataFileLocat
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Registering tables is not supported");
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Reset the table with a meta file.
+   *
+   * @param identifier a table identifier
+   * @param metadataFileLocation the location of a metadata file
+   * @return a Table instance
+   */
+  default Table resetTable(TableIdentifier identifier, String metadataFileLocation) {

Review Comment:
   Do we really need to add another method to `Catalog`? What is the difference between this and `dropTable` followed by `registerTable`?



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