I think it might be worth mentioning the current proposal makes some, mostly minor, design choices to try to be compatible with Delta Lake deletion vectors. I think there might be a general philosophical question on what compromises the community is willing to make for compatibility reasons.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 2:42 PM rdb...@gmail.com <rdb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There seems to be broad agreement around Anton's proposal to use deletion > vectors in Iceberg v3, so I've opened two PRs that update the spec with the > proposed changes. The first, PR #11238 > <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11238/files>, adds a new Puffin > blob type, delete-vector-v1, that stores a delete vector. The second, PR > #11240 <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11240/files>, updates the > Iceberg table spec. > > Please take a look and comment! > > Ryan >