Thanks for the proposal and PR. I think this is a reasonable addition to provide more information to the clients. Note that the spec change also adds a new error type, `NoSuchWarehouseException`.
Spec changes require their own vote, as described in https://iceberg.apache.org/contribute/#merging-pull-requests Let's hear what others think before raising a vote. Best, Kevin Liu On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM Ian Streeter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My colleague has submitted a PR which proposes a small change to the REST > catalog spec: > > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14965 > > It is a small change to the spec, which just explicitly allows 404 as a > possible status code on the /v1/config endpoint if the specified warehouse > does not exist. We have observed REST catalogs returning 404 in this > scenario, so this change is just formalizing what is already happening out > there in the wild. > > Does anyone have thoughts or concerns about adding this to the spec? I > know spec changes require some scrutiny, but this one seems quite sensible. > > It will help us if this PR can be merged, because of how our application > handles exceptions from Iceberg. > > Thanks > Ian > > -- > *Ian Streeter* > Engineering > Snowplow Analytics <https://snowplowanalytics.com/> >
