Yes, that is correct.

Thanks,
Yong Zheng

On 2026/02/23 22:58:23 Dmitri Bourlatchkov wrote:
> Hi Yong,
> 
> Adding these features to the CLI sounds useful to me.
> 
> We can obtain relevant data via REST APIs, right?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dmitri
> 
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 1:57 AM Yong Zheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > The current CLI is primarily used to interact with various entities in
> > Iceberg. Oftentimes, the CLI itself is not very handy after the initial
> > bootstrap or after entity modification. For example, if I need to look up
> > how many tables there are under a given namespace or the number of
> > snapshots a given table has, I would need to switch to a different tool
> > (e.g., pyiceberg, Trino, Spark) to write some queries or run some
> > predefined scripts to obtain this information. Thus, I am wondering if we
> > should enrich the current CLI with a bit more functionality around
> > statistics to fulfill the following more use cases such as:
> > 1. Number of tables under a given namespace
> > 2. Table metadata statistics report (number of snapshots, snapshot size,
> > number of partitions, etc.)
> > 3. Table storage location and size
> > 4. Table current effective policies
> > 5. Table diagnostics (e.g., too many small files)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yong Zheng
> >
> 

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