It's great to see all the progress in PyIceberg. Thanks to everyone that's been contributing!
I'm all for getting a release out as soon as possible and following up with more features in the write path in 0.7.0. On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 5:22 AM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I want to discuss the 0.6.0 release that will bring a lot of functionality > to the public: > > - Write support for writing to unpartitioned tables > - Includes snapshot generation > - Constructing Avro writer trees > - Support writing metadata which allows to commit support for the > Hive, Sql, and Glue catalog. > - Support for name-mapping > - Easy evolution of schema using the union_by_name method > - And a lot of bug fixes and improvements > > The write support is still limited, for example, partitioned writes or > tables with sort-orders are not supported. Also, as Ryan mentioned during > the last community sync, we're doing fast appends by default, and we're > unable to compact yet. I've created issues on Github > <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues> to track all these > limitations. However, I think it is good to get the current work out to the > public so they can try it and we can uncover any impediments as soon as > possible. And we can follow up with 0.7.0. > > Kind regards, > Fokko Driesprong > -- Ryan Blue Tabular
