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 <pre>public interface <span class="typeNameLabel">Catalog</span></pre>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to create a table.</div>
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                          <a href="../PartitionSpec.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">PartitionSpec</a>&nbsp;spec,
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                          java.util.Map&lt;java.lang.String,&#8203;java.lang.String&gt;&nbsp;properties)</code></th>
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                          <a href="../Schema.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">Schema</a>&nbsp;schema,
                          <a href="../PartitionSpec.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">PartitionSpec</a>&nbsp;spec,
                          java.util.Map&lt;java.lang.String,&#8203;java.lang.String&gt;&nbsp;properties)</code></th>
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                           <a href="../Schema.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">Schema</a>&nbsp;schema,
                           boolean&nbsp;orCreate)</code></th>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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                           <a href="../PartitionSpec.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">PartitionSpec</a>&nbsp;spec,
                           java.lang.String&nbsp;location,
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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 <td class="colFirst"><code>default <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg">Transaction</a></code></td>
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 <th class="colSecond" scope="row"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="#registerTable(org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier,java.lang.String)">registerTable</a></span>&#8203;(<a href="TableIdentifier.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.catalog">TableIdentifier</a>&nbsp;identifier,
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 <td class="colFirst"><code>void</code></td>
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 <td class="colFirst"><code>default boolean</code></td>
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 <dd>a list of identifiers for tables</dd>
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 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
 <dd><code>location</code> - a location for the table; leave null if unspecified</dd>
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 <dd>a Table instance</dd>
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 <dd><code>properties</code> - a string map of table properties</dd>
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 <dd>a Table instance</dd>
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 <div class="block">Create a table.</div>
 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a Table instance</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Create an unpartitioned table.</div>
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 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a Table instance</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/AlreadyExistsException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">AlreadyExistsException</a></code> - if the table already exists</dd>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to create a table.</div>
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 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
 <dd><code>location</code> - a location for the table; leave null if unspecified</dd>
 <dd><code>properties</code> - a string map of table properties</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to create the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to create a table.</div>
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 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
 <dd><code>properties</code> - a string map of table properties</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to create the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to create a table.</div>
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 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
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 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to create the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to create a table.</div>
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 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
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 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to create the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/AlreadyExistsException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">AlreadyExistsException</a></code> - if the table already exists</dd>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
 <dd><code>location</code> - a location for the table; leave null if unspecified</dd>
 <dd><code>properties</code> - a string map of table properties</dd>
 <dd><code>orCreate</code> - whether to create the table if not exists</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to replace the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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 <dd><code>spec</code> - a partition spec</dd>
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 <dd>a <a href="../Transaction.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Transaction</code></a> to replace the table</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
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 <div class="block">Start a transaction to replace a table.</div>
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 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
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 <div class="block">Drop a table; optionally delete data and metadata files.
  <p>
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 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>purge</code> - if true, delete all data and metadata files in the table</dd>
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 <dd>true if the table was dropped, false if the table did not exist</dd>
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 <div class="block">Rename a table.</div>
 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>from</code> - identifier of the table to rename</dd>
 <dd><code>to</code> - new table name</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/NoSuchTableException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">NoSuchTableException</a></code> - if the from table does not exist</dd>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/AlreadyExistsException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">AlreadyExistsException</a></code> - if the to table already exists</dd>
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 <div class="block">Load a table.</div>
 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
 <dd>instance of <a href="../Table.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg"><code>Table</code></a> implementation referred by <code>tableIdentifier</code></dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/NoSuchTableException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">NoSuchTableException</a></code> - if the table does not exist</dd>
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 <div class="block">Invalidate cached table metadata from current catalog.
  <p>
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  not cached, do nothing.</div>
 <dl>
 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
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                             java.lang.String&nbsp;metadataFileLocation)</pre>
 <div class="block">Register a table with the catalog if it does not exist.</div>
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 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>metadataFileLocation</code> - the location of a metadata file</dd>
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 <dd>a Table instance</dd>
 <dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
 <dd><code><a href="../exceptions/AlreadyExistsException.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.exceptions">AlreadyExistsException</a></code> - if the table already exists in the catalog.</dd>
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 <pre class="methodSignature">default&nbsp;<a href="Catalog.TableBuilder.html" title="interface in org.apache.iceberg.catalog">Catalog.TableBuilder</a>&nbsp;buildTable&#8203;(<a href="TableIdentifier.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg.catalog">TableIdentifier</a>&nbsp;identifier,
                                         <a href="../Schema.html" title="class in org.apache.iceberg">Schema</a>&nbsp;schema)</pre>
 <div class="block">/**
  Instantiate a builder to either create a table or start a create/replace transaction.</div>
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 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>identifier</code> - a table identifier</dd>
 <dd><code>schema</code> - a schema</dd>
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 <dd>the builder to create a table or start a create/replace transaction</dd>
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 <div class="block">Initialize a catalog given a custom name and a map of catalog properties.
  <p>
  A custom Catalog implementation must have a no-arg constructor.
  A compute engine like Spark or Flink will first initialize the catalog without any arguments,
  and then call this method to complete catalog initialization with properties passed into the engine.</div>
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 <dt><span class="paramLabel">Parameters:</span></dt>
 <dd><code>name</code> - a custom name for the catalog</dd>
 <dd><code>properties</code> - catalog properties</dd>
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