Re: Metadata error handling

2020-09-10 Thread Ryan Blue
A missing or corrupt version hint file shouldn't cause a failure. If the hint is not available, then Iceberg should find the latest metadata version by checking for the existence of metadata files. I think we just need to add a warning and ignore this error. Can you open a PR? rb On Thu, Sep 10,

Metadata error handling

2020-09-10 Thread Peter Vary
Hi Team, I have been playing around with Iceberg tables, and I had some failing writes (not really sure how it actually happened), and ended up with an empty metadata/version-hint.text file. When I have tried to read this table with Catalogs.loadTable(configuration, properties) I got a NullPoin