Hi Y'all We've been considering making a change to the Identity Partition Transform builder. Unlikely all of the other builders, Identity doesn't allow you to make an Identity Transform with a name different from the column you are transforming.
We want to be able to construct in memory a TableMetadata object which matches an existing Table without going through deserialization of a Json object and this is one of the few places where we can't actually legally build the metadata which matches the Json on disk. Meaning if you have a Table whose source column of an identity was changed, it is impossible to build metadata from the TableMetadata.Builder which matches that object. I was wondering if anyone has feelings about making the constructor public or if anyone knows of any reasons why making this public could cause problems. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/12943 https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12975 I was hypothesizing that this relates to Hive partition mapping but I can't think of another reason it might matter. Thanks for reading and I'm eager to hear anyones thoughts, Russ
