corleyma commented on issue #600: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/600#issuecomment-2092076360
> More over, multiple different snapshots can also be committed between two consecutive metadata json files. In what situations would that occur? In my (possibly incorrect) mental model of how Iceberg works, any new snapshot should result in a new metadata file. Anyway, I think the fact that not every metadata json file has a snapshot is less of a concern, so long as every snapshot is supposed to have a uniquely associated metadata json file... but it sounds like maybe that's not the case. (As a separate aside: the fact that creating a table doesn't initialize a snapshot seems like a weird edgecase to my mind. Is there a reason the spec was designed this way? And, are there other scenarios where changes to table metadata don't result in a new snapshot?) -- 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
