Hey everyone,
I want to discuss the 0.6.0 release that will bring a lot of functionality
to the public:
- Write support for writing to unpartitioned tables
- Includes snapshot generation
- Constructing Avro writer trees
- Support writing metadata which allows to commit support for the Hive,
Sql, and Glue catalog.
- Support for name-mapping
- Easy evolution of schema using the union_by_name method
- And a lot of bug fixes and improvements
The write support is still limited, for example, partitioned writes or
tables with sort-orders are not supported. Also, as Ryan mentioned during
the last community sync, we're doing fast appends by default, and we're
unable to compact yet. I've created issues on Github
<https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues> to track all these
limitations. However, I think it is good to get the current work out to the
public so they can try it and we can uncover any impediments as soon as
possible. And we can follow up with 0.7.0.
Kind regards,
Fokko Driesprong
