Hi Y'all, I've been thinking a lot about cross table compatibility as well as our ability to govern other entity types within the Polaris catalog. I think a good first step for the catalog would be to work on providing a system for registering non-iceberg tables and providing an API / Service capability for transforming those tables into Iceberg metadata when they are accessed through Iceberg REST APIs. I think support for other apis may be something we want to consider in the future as well since not all data-types can be resolved as Iceberg metadata but for now I think this is the right direction.
I'd be glad to hear your thoughts, I plan to work on a POC of this concept with Delta tables after Thanksgiving break. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2StuZ26LroibuQni3IJlErlKgrV9fEvYLHHqN7HWfE/edit?tab=t.01 Thanks for your time, Russ
