Hi @amr, materialised views are not tables, they are views. Liquid clustering is not supported on views so it will throw [EXPECT_TABLE_NOT_VIEW.NO_ALTERNATIVE] error. Unfortunately it will be the same case for the "optimize" command as well.
We had a similar experience where the initialisation and setting up tables step took as long as 2 hours before the pipeline starts. It gotten worse when we migrated the pipeline to Unity Catalog. When we requested support, one of the first recommenda...