Hi Yufie,
The original proposal did not seem to indicate that the metadata tables
will be "materialized" (outside regular Iceberg metadata since most of
those metadata tables are actually "views" on Iceberg metadata). However,
in the last response, it seems metadata could potentially be written to
Hi Szehon,
Thanks for sharing this proposal. We have thought along the same lines and
implemented an external system (LakeChime [1]) that retains snapshot +
partition metadata for longer (actual internal implementation keeps data
for 13 months, but that can be tuned). For efficient analysis, we ha
