Hi All, Starting this thread to revive the discussion on converting Equality Deletes as Position deletes and see if this is something community wants now (Happy to contribute in this) considering : 1/ Now it's not just flink but other writers such Kafka-Connect [1] debezium server for iceberg [2] have emerged which emit equality deletes and equality deletes doesn't goes well with the readers in general. 2/ We have some features like Row lineage [3] on which we have taken decided we will not support it with equality deletes 3/ We are doing considerable enhancements in Position deletes in v3 [4]
I see some past work has been done in this context [5] and we have an action already in our repo. Let me know your thoughts. Regards, Prashant [1] https://github.com/tabular-io/iceberg-kafka-connect/tree/main [2] https://github.com/memiiso/debezium-server-iceberg [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/146YuAnU17prnIhyuvbCtCtVSavyd5N7hKryyVRaFDTE/edit#heading=h.f2e8ffw3fu7n [4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Bqhr-vnzFfQk1S4AgRISkA_5_m5m32Nnc2Cw0zn2XM/edit [5] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/main/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/ConvertEqualityDeleteFiles.java
