Hi Brian, Welcome to this list :)
Quick question: do you actually have an issue with truncate on binary columns ? The Truncate transform (in Iceberg API) supports BINARY using TruncateByteBuffer, so it would make sense to clearly state this in the spec. Regards JB On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM Brian Hulette <bhule...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello, this is my first time writing on this list so I'll introduce myself. > I'm Brian Hulette, I've been involved with a couple of Apache projects in the > past (Arrow and Beam), and now I'm working on BigQuery's support for Iceberg. > > My colleague raised an issue [1] a while ago about a discrepancy between the > specification and the implementation - truncate is not supposed to work on > binary column, but it looks like it does. It seems unlikely that we will > drop support for something that is working now, so I figured we should > document the current behavior instead. I drafted a PR for this [2], could > someone help review? > > Thanks! > Brian > > [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/5251 > [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10079
