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Known issues

Known issues

You might experience the following issues while using watsonx.data with NPSaaS:

  • You may see the following error when dropping columns using an alter statement.

    The following columns have types incompatible with the existing columns in their respective positions : COL3

    For more information, see ALTER TABLE.

    Workaround

    Refer Dropping incompatible column types in ALTER TABLE

  • INSERT is only supported for unpartitioned tables. You will not be able to insert into partitioned iceberg tables created by other engines.

  • CTAS (CREATE TABLE AS SELECT) within a single SQL statement is not supported when the target table is an iceberg table.

    Workaround

    Create the table and do the insert in separate SQL statements.