diff --git a/polaris-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/persistence/TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager.java b/polaris-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/persistence/TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager.java
index 489920752..4d7d656ad 100644
--- a/polaris-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/persistence/TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager.java
+++ b/polaris-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/persistence/TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager.java
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
 public class TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager implements PolarisMetaStoreManager {
   private final PolarisMetaStoreManager delegate;
 
+  // TODO: If we want to support the semantic of opening a transaction in which multiple
+  // reads and writes occur on the same entities, where the reads are expected to see the writes
+  // within the transaction workspace that haven't actually been committed, we can augment this
+  // class by allowing these pendingUpdates to represent the latest state of the entity if we
+  // also increment entityVersion. We'd need to store both a "latest view" of all updated entities
+  // to serve reads within the same transaction while also storing the ordered list of
+  // pendingUpdates that ultimately need to be applied in order within the real MetaStoreManager.
   private final List<EntityWithPath> pendingUpdates = new ArrayList<>();
 
   public TransactionWorkspaceMetaStoreManager(PolarisMetaStoreManager delegate) {
diff --git a/polaris-service/src/test/java/org/apache/polaris/service/catalog/PolarisRestCatalogIntegrationTest.java b/polaris-service/src/test/java/org/apache/polaris/service/catalog/PolarisRestCatalogIntegrationTest.java
index 62feed6d2..7b937fdce 100644
--- a/polaris-service/src/test/java/org/apache/polaris/service/catalog/PolarisRestCatalogIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/polaris-service/src/test/java/org/apache/polaris/service/catalog/PolarisRestCatalogIntegrationTest.java
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.SessionCatalog;
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableCommit;
 import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier;
-import org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.BadRequestException;
 import org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.CommitFailedException;
 import org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.ForbiddenException;
 import org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expressions;