Hello,

I would like to clarify a point about Delta Share ownership.
Indeed, there is something that is not clear in Databricks documentation.

• On one side, in the delta sharing page, it is written that "metastore admin" role is needed in order to change the ownership. See "Update share owner" row in this table: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/delta-sharing/create-share#requirements

• On the other side, on a more generic page about ownership, there is a note about Delta Sharing ownership transfer. "Delta Sharing share objects are an exception: principals with the USE SHARE and SET SHARE PERMISSION privileges can also transfer share ownership." . I tried this approach, but without success 😟
  Link to the page: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/data-governance/unity-catalog/manage-privileges/ownership#transfe...

Note that this was not the case in the past. Before, it was possible to change a Delta Share owner from Databricks UI as soon as you were the owner of the Delta Share. But now, when you try to edit the owner of a Delta Share, there is a tips that appear saying that you have to be metastore admin (see attached screenshot).

So, the user experience let me think that we really have to be metastore admin in order to change a Delta Share ownership, but there is a sentence in the Databricks documentation that doesn't say the same thing!

This is an important point for us because this change has an impact for our application in production. Before todo some changes on all the "metastore admin group" we have in production, I would like to be sure of one thing:

Does the only way to change a Delta Share ownership, is to be Metastore admin?

Do you have another experience than me on this topic?

Regards,

Loïc