From 597817fbd59725d804acdf7d906e25519fee967b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Cloud <417981+cpcloud@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 10:49:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(duckdb): use `register` directly instead of calling
 `read_in_memory`

---
 ibis/backends/duckdb/__init__.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ibis/backends/duckdb/__init__.py b/ibis/backends/duckdb/__init__.py
index 1f0b39fe16d1..0a1f05212eed 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/duckdb/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/duckdb/__init__.py
@@ -939,9 +939,8 @@ def read_delta(
 
         delta_table = DeltaTable(source_table, **kwargs)
 
-        return self.read_in_memory(
-            delta_table.to_pyarrow_dataset(), table_name=table_name
-        )
+        self.con.register(table_name, delta_table.to_pyarrow_dataset())
+        return self.table(table_name)
 
     def list_tables(
         self,