> I think removing states in which the API would fail is good and although
>> we didn't document it exactly this way before, I'm having a hard time
>> thinking of a case in which throwing an exception here would have been
>> preferable to a noop? Does anyone else have strong
Hi everyone,
Apologize if this is landing twice, my first attempt got lost somewhere in
transit :)
I have a PR that attempts to address
https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/4849, basically adding logic to
ignore downcasting column types when "mergeSchema" is set when an existing
column type i