[BUG] delta.minReaderVersion property is ignored when creating a new table

[ebyhr]

Bug

Which Delta project/connector is this regarding?

• Spark
• Standalone
• Flink
• Kernel
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Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce

CREATE TABLE default.test (col INT) USING DELTA LOCATION 's3://test-bucket/test'
TBLPROPERTIES ('delta.minReaderVersion'='3', 'delta.minWriterVersion'='7', 'delta.columnMapping.mode'='id')

SHOW TBLPROPERTIES default.test;
delta.columnMapping.maxColumnId	1
delta.columnMapping.mode	id
delta.feature.columnMapping	supported
delta.minReaderVersion	2
delta.minWriterVersion	7
Time taken: 0.258 seconds, Fetched 5 row(s)

Observed results

Expected results

delta.minReaderVersion property is set to 3.

Further details

Environment information

• Delta Lake version: 3.3.0
• Spark version: 3.5.3
• Scala version: 2.12

Willingness to contribute

The Delta Lake Community encourages bug fix contributions. Would you or another member of your organization be willing to contribute a fix for this bug to the Delta Lake code base?

• Yes. I can contribute a fix for this bug independently.
• Yes. I would be willing to contribute a fix for this bug with guidance from the Delta Lake community.
• No. I cannot contribute a bug fix at this time.