kevinjqliu commented on issue #1400: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/1400#issuecomment-2518280875
`drop_namespace` and `drop_table` are metadata operations. in this case, they will remove the specific entries in the postgres database. for `drop_table`, some catalog implementations also support removing the underlying files associated with the table. for example https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/df804c4c65033039ef16bb9a51c68aebfb010e5e/pyiceberg/catalog/rest.py#L706-L716 for catalogs which subclass `MetastoreCatalog` like [`SqlCatalog`](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/df804c4c65033039ef16bb9a51c68aebfb010e5e/pyiceberg/catalog/sql.py#L107) there is a [`purge_table`](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/df804c4c65033039ef16bb9a51c68aebfb010e5e/pyiceberg/catalog/__init__.py#L811) function available to remove the files -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
