Hi all, There has been work [1] to enable users to remove historical partition specs which are not referenced in manifests as a form of metadata cleanup. As part of this, a new metadata update type RemovePartitionSpecsUpdate needs to be added to enable REST Catalogs to be able to perform this operation.
I have a PR [2] with the REST spec change and am starting this thread to get feedback on the addition of this metadata update to the spec. Note: REST servers which receive an unknown type must fail with a 400 response as discussed/voted earlier. [3] [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10755 <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10755> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10846/ [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/99lo7stnprchjzosjcq9k3mns1mq8fwc Thanks, Amogh Jahagirdar
