Hey Anton, Just adding a note that back around January the same topic was brought up on this mail list. There the conclusion was to use the 'table-default.' catalog level property to create V2 tables by default. https://lists.apache.org/thread/9ct0p817qxqqdnv7nb35kghsfygjkqdf
I'm not saying that we shouldn't default to V2 just drawing attention to this previous conversation. Cheers, Gabor On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:04 AM Anton Okolnychyi <aokolnyc...@apple.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Would it be appropriate for us to consider changing the default table > format version for new tables from v1 to v2? > > I don’t think defaulting to v2 tables means all readers have to support > delete files. DELETE, UPDATE, MERGE operations will only produce delete > files if configured explicitly. > > The primary reason I am starting this thread is to avoid our workarounds > in v1 spec evolution, and snapshot ID inheritance. The latter is critical > for the performance of rewriting manifests. > > Any thoughts? > > - Anton
