Fokko commented on PR #433: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/433#issuecomment-1948180604
@anupam-saini Thanks for working on this. I'm not sure if the following API is where people would expect it: ```python with table.transaction() as transaction: transaction.replace_table_with(new_table) ``` Specially because this is an unsafe operation that breaks for downstream consumers. I would expect this operation on the catalog itself: ```python catalog = load_catalog('default') catalog.create_table('schema.table', schema=...) catalog.create_or_replace_table('schema.table', schema=...) ``` We want to generalize this operation, so we don't have to implement this for each of the catalogs. Therefore I would expect this on the `Catalog(ABC)` itself. Just a heads up, for the replace table it keeps the history in Spark:  And when we look at the metadata, we can see the previous schema/snapshot as well: ```json { "format-version" : 2, "table-uuid" : "9b8b02af-2097-453f-86e2-5b2715e9d37a", "location" : "s3://warehouse/default/fokko", "last-sequence-number" : 2, "last-updated-ms" : 1708081058809, "last-column-id" : 2, "current-schema-id" : 1, "schemas" : [ { "type" : "struct", "schema-id" : 0, "fields" : [ { "id" : 1, "name" : "name", "required" : false, "type" : "string" } ] }, { "type" : "struct", "schema-id" : 1, "fields" : [ { "id" : 1, "name" : "name", "required" : false, "type" : "string" }, { "id" : 2, "name" : "age" "required" : false, "type" : "int" } ], } ], "default-spec-id" : 0, "partition-specs" : [ { "spec-id" : 0, "fields" : [ ] } ], "last-partition-id" : 999, "default-sort-order-id" : 0, "sort-orders" : [ { "order-id" : 0, "fields" : [ ] } ], "properties" : { "owner" : "root", "created-at" : "2024-02-16T10:57:38.541088095Z", "write.parquet.compression-codec" : "zstd" }, "current-snapshot-id" : 398515508184271470, "refs" : { "main" : { "snapshot-id" : 398515508184271470, "type" : "branch" } }, "snapshots" : [ { "sequence-number" : 1, "snapshot-id" : 4615041670163082108, "timestamp-ms" : 1708081058629, "summary" : { "operation" : "append", "spark.app.id" : "local-1708080918556", "added-data-files" : "1", "added-records" : "1", "added-files-size" : "416", "changed-partition-count" : "1", "total-records" : "1", "total-files-size" : "416", "total-data-files" : "1", "total-delete-files" : "0", "total-position-deletes" : "0", "total-equality-deletes" : "0" }, "manifest-list" : "s3://warehouse/default/fokko/metadata/snap-4615041670163082108-1-d3852ba7-ff54-4abd-99a2-0265206cfbfa.avro", "schema-id" : 0 }, { "sequence-number" : 2, "snapshot-id" : 398515508184271470, "timestamp-ms" : 1708081058809, "summary" : { "operation" : "append", "spark.app.id" : "local-1708080918556", "added-data-files" : "1", "added-records" : "1", "added-files-size" : "628", "changed-partition-count" : "1", "total-records" : "1", "total-files-size" : "628", "total-data-files" : "1", "total-delete-files" : "0", "total-position-deletes" : "0", "total-equality-deletes" : "0" }, "manifest-list" : "s3://warehouse/default/fokko/metadata/snap-398515508184271470-1-4d03a8b5-8912-4235-8c18-75400fef9874.avro", "schema-id" : 1 } ], "statistics" : [ ], "snapshot-log" : [ { "timestamp-ms" : 1708081058809, "snapshot-id" : 398515508184271470 } ], "metadata-log" : [ { "timestamp-ms" : 1708081058629, "metadata-file" : "s3://warehouse/default/fokko/metadata/00000-10d2c8d5-f6a2-4dc4-90cb-c545d8ffd497.metadata.json" } ] } ``` -- 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