Hi Jack,
Thanks for bringing up this discussion.
but another schema could be used if the user specifies the schema ID.
I think it is hard for users to specify the schema id.
I think we don't even have a metadata table to see how schema is
evolved per operation. So, Unless user knows which table m
Thanks for the reply Ryan, and thanks for the additional information Mayur!
Yes, the example you described is one of the biggest reasons for using the
snapshot schema. I just brought the other example up because that was the
conflicting use case I heard. The use case is that the system would alway
issues (as Ryan
mentioned earlier) and works only when the current schema (or a future schema)
is backwards compatible with snapshot schema.
Thanks,
Mayur
From: Ryan Blue
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 6:41 PM
To: Iceberg Dev List
Subject: Re: Read schema to use during time travel
Thanks, Jack
Thanks, Jack! I was just thinking about this because I think we want to
have support for time travel with the snapshot schema in 0.13.0 if
possible, so it's a great time to talk about the behavior.
In general, I think that time travel with the snapshot schema is the right
option. The use case I th
Hi everyone,
As we are starting to have more use cases around the time travel related
features in Iceberg, a few questions popped up around the correct schema to
use for time travel queries.
*Latest table schema vs schema at snapshot time*
There was a discussion around this in
https://github.com/
