We are running an init shell scrip that runs a few curl commands to create our tables. We sometimes see the error {"code":409,"error":"Table mutable_events_REALTIME already exists"}failed to create the mutable_events table even when we know the table doesn't exist. Is this a known issue? Is there some sort of lag after you delete a table before it is recognized as being gone? Using the swagger api, we verify that there are no table in the system but this create still fails with this error.

you may have hit this: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/8509

yep