Thanks Ryan, how about an overwrite commit (insert overwrite)? What should
I be aware of? Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 9:26 AM Ryan Blue <b...@tabular.io> wrote:

> Pucheng,
>
> I think you'd want to add a new option to the SnapshotManager to revert a
> commit by ID. That would need to get the changes from the commit and
> reverse them. We'd want to start small because reverting the file-level
> changes isn't always the same thing as reverting the semantic changes. But
> for simple cases like an append commit, it would work just fine.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 3:13 PM Pucheng Yang <py...@pinterest.com.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, I will take a look.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM Ye, Jack <yzhao...@amazon.com.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a PR published just today for something similar that you might
>>> be able to reference: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5888,
>>> which rolls back a compaction commit on conflict and then reapply the
>>> changes. The logic seems to be similar as what you want, to rollback to
>>> that specific snapshot and try to reapply the ones you still want.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jack Ye
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *Pucheng Yang <py...@pinterest.com.INVALID>
>>> *Reply-To: *"dev@iceberg.apache.org" <dev@iceberg.apache.org>
>>> *Date: *Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 2:27 PM
>>> *To: *"dev@iceberg.apache.org" <dev@iceberg.apache.org>
>>> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Reverting a commit in the table history?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if any discussion happened about the idea of reverting a commit
>>> in the table history?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My clients have such a use case: they are writing some data into a
>>> partition, and later want to revert that. But since there are new snapshots
>>> generated, thus they can not use snapshot rollback.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any comments are welcome! Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Pucheng
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Ryan Blue
> Tabular
>

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