[IMPALA-11776] Use hive.metastore.table.owner for create table

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Frontend
• Labels: iceberg
• Epic Color: ghx-label-1
• Assignee: Zihao Ye
• Reporter: Gabor Kaszab
• Created: 05/Dec/22 10:37
• Updated: 09/Apr/24 16:37
• Resolved: 13/Dec/23 06:18

Description

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-11429 made the creation of an Iceberg table happen in 2 steps. The first step creates the table, however, with wrong owner and the second step is an ALTER TABLE to set the correct table owner.

Since Iceberg 1.1.0 there is now a way to provide a table owner via a table property so we can make the create table operation to take one step again.
https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5763
https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6154