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bug: InMemoryCatalog skips the namespace existence check in CreateTable and RegisterTable

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开始于 2026年10月1日。

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调研方向

从 src/iceberg/catalog/memory/in_memory_catalog.cc 开始，检查 CreateTable 和 RegisterTable，然后将 namespace 的处理方式与 SqlCatalog::CreateTable 进行比较。完成的标准是：在写入元数据之前，将缺失的 namespace 拒绝为 kNoSuchNamespace，同时不改变超出范围的重复注册行为。

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Summary

InMemoryCatalog fails to validate that a table's namespace exists before acting, in two methods.

CreateTable writes the table metadata file through FileIO before it checks the namespace. Creating a table under a namespace that does not exist returns kNoSuchNamespace, but on an object-store FileIO the call first writes an orphaned 00000-<uuid>.metadata.json that nothing ever removes (DropTable's purge only touches registered tables). On the default local FileIO the stray write fails first, so the caller gets a misleading kIOError instead of kNoSuchNamespace.

RegisterTable guards with if (!root_namespace_->NamespaceExists(identifier.ns)). NamespaceExists returns Result<bool> (std::expected<bool, Error>); !result tests has_value(), not the contained bool, and a missing namespace is reported as a value false, never an error. The guard therefore never fires, so registering under a missing namespace falls through and surfaces as kUnknownError ("The registry failed.") instead of kNoSuchNamespace.

Root Cause

CreateTable (src/iceberg/catalog/memory/in_memory_catalog.cc): the namespace is only enforced inside UpdateTableMetadataLocation, which runs after TableMetadataUtil::Write has already persisted the file. TableExists(identifier).value_or(false) ahead of the write swallows the kNoSuchNamespace from the namespace lookup and reports "table absent", so control falls through to the write.

RegisterTable: if (!root_namespace_->NamespaceExists(identifier.ns)) reads as if (!result.has_value()). NamespaceExists maps a missing namespace to Ok(false), so the branch is dead code; the error later comes out of the inner RegisterTable and is rewritten to kUnknownError.

Impact

CreateTable leaks an orphan metadata file on object-store FileIO and returns the wrong error kind (kIOError) on local FileIO. InMemoryCatalog is documented as not for production use (unit tests, prototyping, demonstration), so this is a correctness and robustness issue, not a security one.

RegisterTable returns kUnknownError for a missing namespace instead of kNoSuchNamespace. SqlCatalog::RegisterTable and the REST error handler both return kNoSuchNamespace, so InMemoryCatalog is the outlier here.

Proposed Fix

Unwrap NamespaceExists and return kNoSuchNamespace before any metadata write, in both methods, mirroring SqlCatalog::CreateTable.

Out of scope

  • RegisterTable still masks kAlreadyExists as kUnknownError on the duplicate-registration path (if (!root_namespace_->RegisterTable(...))); the clean fix is ICEBERG_RETURN_UNEXPECTED(...), as RenameTable already does. Follow-up.
  • StageCreateTable and UpdateTable's create branch share the same write-before-validate pattern. Follow-up.
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