I am really excited to see the both append and overwrite support are finally checked and in favor of seeing it in 0.6.0 release. It’s a big milestone worth celebrating! I am happy to help with partitioned write and sort order.
Thanks, Steve Zhang > On 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
