Consolidate catalog behavior

[kevinjqliu]

Feature Request / Improvement

We should ensure consistency in catalog behaviors for all implementations.

Currently, we have a few different catalog implementations (dynamodb, glue, hive, rest, and sql).
Each catalog implementation supports a set of functions described in the Catalog ABC class (https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/main/pyiceberg/catalog/__init__.py#L276)

The behavior for each catalog implementation should be standardized. And we should test that a set of behaviors is consistent across all catalog implementations.

Here are a few related issues

• Rest Catalog: catalog.name should not be part of namespace #742
• SqlCatalog and other catalog works different on load_namespace_properties #769
• Add table_exists method to the Catalog #507
• [Feature] Support Metadata Log Update For Non-Rest Catalogs #849

Add SqlCatalog to test console #488 is an example PR that utilizes tests/cli/test_console.py to ensure the same behaviors for different catalogs.

[rohithkanchukatla]

Hii Kevin, Can I take up this issue?

[kevinjqliu]

@rohithkanchukatla sure thing

[soumya-ghosh]

@kevinjqliu this can be closed as well as all tasks in this issue are completed.

[kevinjqliu]

The behavior for each catalog implementation should be standardized. And we should test that a set of behaviors is consistent across all catalog implementations.

@soumya-ghosh I want to keep this issue open until we have a solution to address future updates. Ideally, there's a set of tests that will check the behavior of all the catalog implementations.

Add SqlCatalog to test console #488 is an example PR that utilizes tests/cli/test_console.py to ensure the same behaviors for different catalogs.

A possible solution is to test the input and expected output via the CLI

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