Eduard, Could you link to the slack discussion (I wasn't able to find it)?
Is it safe to assume that we can determine the average via the combination of *total_bytes* and *value_count*? If that's true, it seems that *total_bytes* would be more valuable for estimation purposes since you have an explicit upper bound on size. -Dan On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 8:03 AM Eduard Tudenhöfner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We had a few discussions around the *avg_value_size_in_bytes* field on > the Iceberg slack and how it makes e.g. aggregations more difficult than > necessary. We concluded that it's probably best to track the *total* > instead of the *avg.* > That being said, the field is being renamed to *total_bytes* in > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/18308. > > Please speak up if you have any concerns about this change. > > Thanks, > Eduard >
