+1 Regards JB
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > One of the users has raised a PR to update the table statistics (puffin > stats) spec. > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/13513 > > I have suggested a mailing list voting thread and also tagged the original > spec author. > Since there was no response from them for a long time, I am taking it forward. > > Spec mentions the snapshot id as String whereas java and python > implementations use Long. > IMO, we can update the implementation to have a string to match the spec and > handle compatibility during read. > But the spec is very old and definitely wrong (doesn't align with regular > snapshot id representation). > Hence, I think updating the spec is the right option here as current > implementations like java and python library use long for snapshot id. > > Please take a look at the PR and cast your vote. > > - Ajantha >
