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Native Iceberg write gate reads hdfs:/path as file, so the write fails natively instead of falling back #6140

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Describe the bug

The native Iceberg write gate and the native storage factory read the scheme of a data location differently, so some locations pass the gate and then fail at execution.

  • The gate (CometIcebergNativeWrite.storageScheme, CometIcebergNativeWrite.scala:310-315) takes the text before ://, and treats a location without :// as file.
  • The native side (scheme_of, iceberg_common.rs:229) takes the text before the first :.

Hadoop normalises hdfs:///warehouse/t to hdfs:/warehouse/t. For that location the gate sees no ://, calls it file and admits it. The native writer reads hdfs, which has no storage backend, and every task fails with Unsupported storage scheme: hdfs. The query fails instead of falling back to iceberg-java. The same applies to any scheme:/path form.

Steps to reproduce

Create an Iceberg table whose data location is written hdfs:/path (for example through LOCATION 'hdfs:/...', or a Hadoop catalog whose warehouse was normalised), enable spark.comet.iceberg.write.enabled, and insert into it.

Expected behavior

The write falls back to iceberg-java with an unsupported storage scheme: hdfs reason. The gate should use the same scheme rule as scheme_of, ideally one shared implementation.

Additional context

#6065 (closes #5541) moves the supported-scheme lists to the native factory and touches storageScheme, but it keeps the :// split, so it does not fix this. It would be a natural place to align the parsing too.

Found in an audit of the native Iceberg write path before enabling it by default. Part of #5649.

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  1. 0lai0 commented on Sep 24, 2026

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