rdblue commented on PR #9414: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/9414#issuecomment-1878993066
@amogh-jahagirdar, I agree with not adding a `with` method to modify a schema. If we can avoid making that kind of API addition I would prefer it. I'm also not sure that we want to modify existing views by updating the schema. That's a lot of validation and complexity. The schema should be produced by fairly standard SQL syntax: ```sql CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW default.event_agg ( event_count COMMENT 'Count of events', event_date) COMMENT 'Daily event counts' AS SELECT COUNT(1), CAST(event_ts AS DATE) FROM prod.default.events GROUP BY 2 ``` If we allow making schema -only changes, then would we also allow modifying the view by -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org