From 6d1a34c693b42d69b9811435e92f922eb6780355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Liu <kevin.jq.liu@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:25:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] use create or replace

---
 dev/provision.py | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dev/provision.py b/dev/provision.py
index 837189204e..231f5123ce 100644
--- a/dev/provision.py
+++ b/dev/provision.py
@@ -273,13 +273,9 @@
         """
         )
 
-    # There is an issue with CREATE OR REPLACE
-    # https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/8756
-    spark.sql(f"DROP TABLE IF EXISTS {catalog_name}.default.test_table_version")
-
     spark.sql(
         f"""
-    CREATE TABLE {catalog_name}.default.test_table_version (
+    CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE {catalog_name}.default.test_table_version (
         dt     date,
         number integer,
         letter string