I've opened a PR [1] to clarify that partition columns must always be written by implementations and that for identity transformed partition values, the metadata from the manifest file must be used.
Please vote on merging this change. The vote will remain open for at least 72 hours. [] +1 [] +0 [] -1, do not merge because ... My vote is +1 Thanks, Micah [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10835
