Error while trying to delete ICEBERG table

Question

Hi,
I created ICEBERG table by using CTAS command.
By mistake I deleted the Parquet files and afterwards tried to drop the table.
Now once I'm trying to delete the table I'm getting the following error.

```
DDL execution timed out.
This query ran against the "default" database, unless qualified by the query. Please post the error message on our forum  or contact customer support  
```

How I can recover it?

Accepted Answer

Hello,

This seems to be a known issue as the underlying metadata of iceberg deletion makes timeout from Athena. You can alternatively try to,

1. delete data/metadata from S3 location if any still exist by manually goto your iceberg location and delete the entire folder.

2. Navigate into Glue --> Tables --> Select the table(iceberg) --> Delete. This will delete the iceberg table gracefully.

Error while trying to delete ICEBERG table

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