Hey,
Thanks for your interest in the project.
Yeah, your understanding is correct, for Iceberg tables (and actually also
for Hive ACID tables) Impala just creates a new empty snapshot.
So the operation doesn't affect concurrent readers, also time-travel
queries can still reach older snapshots as Csaba mentioned.
Feel free to add me as reviewer on your gerrit CR.
Cheers,
Zoltan
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:02 AM Csaba Ringhofer <csringho...@cloudera.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Added you as a contributor to Impala (welcome!) and assigned IMPALA-11993.
> Did a quick check and Impala doesn't delete files during truncate in
> Iceberg tables. This allows the content before truncation to be reached
> through time travel.
> I agree that we should specifically mention that truncate and insert
> overwrite do not delete the old files. I am not that familiar with Iceberg
> though, so I would prefer someone with more experience to comment on this
> too.
>
> >Also, why can't we have a search bar in this documentation, so finding
> keywords is easy?
> That's a good idea!
>
> Csaba
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:44 PM superwemanhella <
> gowthamibhogire...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I want to work on IMPALA-11993 and need the privilege to self-assign JIRA
> > stories. My JIRA username is Gia3.
> >
> > *Approach -*
> > As per the documentation here -
> > https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/asf-site-html/topics/impala_s3.html
> ,
> > it says that
> >
> > -
> >
> > The TRUNCATE TABLE
> > <
> >
> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/asf-site-html/topics/impala_truncate_table.html#truncate_table
> > >
> > statement
> > always removes the corresponding data files from S3 when the table is
> > truncated.
> >
> >
> > But we would want to update the section 'Writing Iceberg tables' under
> >
> >
> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/asf-site-html/topics/impala_iceberg.html
> > with
> > these details as mentioned in the story -
> >
> > *However, for Iceberg it's not the case as Iceberg 'only' creates a new
> > snapshot for the table but doesn't delete the files, because for time
> > travel they could be relevant for older snapshots.*
> >
> > Please let me know if this understanding is correct. Also, why can't we
> > have a search bar in this documentation, so finding keywords is easy?
> >
> >
> >
> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/asf-site-html/topics/impala_iceberg.html
> >
> > <
> >
> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/asf-site-html/topics/impala_iceberg.html
> > >
> >
> > *Thank You*
> > *Gowthami B*
> >
>
