Fokko commented on code in PR #523:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/523#discussion_r1538172665
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pyiceberg/table/__init__.py:
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@@ -1156,7 +1166,9 @@ def overwrite(
if len(self.spec().fields) > 0:
raise ValueError("Cannot write to partitioned tables")
- _check_schema(self.schema(), other_schema=df.schema)
+ _check_schema_compatible(self.schema(), other_schema=df.schema)
+ # the two schemas are compatible so safe to cast
+ df = df.cast(self.schema().as_arrow())
Review Comment:
Should `_check_schema_compatible` return a bool to indicate if the cast is
needed? I'm not sure how costly the cast is. If we go from `string` to
`large_string` then we might rewrite the Arrow buffers.
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