aokolnychyi commented on code in PR #6163:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6163#discussion_r1019734099
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/Partitioning.java:
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@@ -195,41 +198,68 @@ public Void alwaysNull(int fieldId, String sourceName,
int sourceId) {
}
/**
- * Builds a common partition type for all specs in a table.
+ * Builds an intersection of all partition types in a table.
*
- * <p>Whenever a table has multiple specs, the partition type is a struct
containing all columns
- * that have ever been a part of any spec in the table.
+ * <p>Whenever a table has multiple specs, the common partition type is a
struct containing only
+ * fields that are present in every spec of the table. In other words, the
struct fields represent
+ * an intersection of all partition types.
*
- * @param table a table with one or many specs
+ * @param specs one or many specs
* @return the constructed common partition type
Review Comment:
I've changed the naming and logic, documented the behavior.
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