[GitHub] [incubator-iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #253: Register existing tables in Iceberg HiveCatalog

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rdblue commented on issue #253: Register existing tables in Iceberg HiveCatalog
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-iceberg/pull/253#issuecomment-511029823
 
 
   @aokolnychyi, this looks ready. But before we commit it, I want to suggest an alternative for you to consider. What about instead of adding the `registerTable` method, we added a way to set an existing table's metadata location directly? That would avoid extra public methods in the `Catalog` interface. It would also be a way to roll back the entire table state, not just rolling back the current snapshot.
   
   This would primarily be an administrator change, so we could expose it through a method in `TableOperations`, like `setMetadataLocation`. What do you think? This may be difficult with the new table UUID...

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