Re: Updates/Deletes/Upserts in Iceberg

2019-05-09 Thread Jacques Nadeau
This is a nice doc and it covers many different options. Upon first skim, I don't see a strong argument for particular approach. D In our own development, we've been leaning heavily towards what you describe in the document as "lazy with SRI". I believe this is consistent with what the Hive commun

Re: Enums in Icebert

2019-05-09 Thread Ryan Blue
+Iceberg Dev List Ryan, Iceberg doesn't currently support enums because enums cause unnecessary schema evolution problems. You can't delete a symbol from an enum without breaking backward-compatibility with existing data. That means symbol additions cannot be rolled back easily, which is an anno