@Deprecated
  default boolean isMetadataTableSupported() {
    return isTableMetaRefSupported();
  }
Introduced by HIVE-25457 for iceberg to query metadata table.
@return true if the storage handler can support it
@deprecated Use {@link #isTableMetaRefSupported()}
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/HiveStorageHandler.java