mattmartin14 commented on code in PR #1534:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1534#discussion_r1935741721


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pyiceberg/table/__init__.py:
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@@ -1064,6 +1064,125 @@ def name_mapping(self) -> Optional[NameMapping]:
         """Return the table's field-id NameMapping."""
         return self.metadata.name_mapping()
 
+    def merge_rows(self, df: pa.Table, join_cols: list
+                    ,merge_options: dict = {'when_matched_update_all': True, 
'when_not_matched_insert_all': True}
+                ) -> Dict:
+        """
+        Shorthand API for performing an upsert/merge to an iceberg table.
+        
+        Args:
+            df: The input dataframe to merge with the table's data.
+            join_cols: The columns to join on.

Review Comment:
   so, what if a user had constructed an iceberg table and not specified the 
"identifier fields". Additionally, the incoming dataset to merge is not int he 
iceberg format, so it would not have identifier fields avaialble yet to compare.
   
   Does that makes sense?



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