Knowledge Document: s3 iceberg metastore support in external tables in Vertica Database

Environment

Vertica Analytics Platform 24.3
 

Situation

Creating an iceberg external table fails with the below error
 

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test
STORED BY ICEBERG LOCATION 's3://datang-dev/s3dbdatabase/s3dbdatabase.db/persons/';

[2025-01-26 13:43:18] [22023][11195] [Vertica][VJDBC](11195) ERROR: Problem reading metadata for table test. Det

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