ramitg254 commented on code in PR #6565:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/6565#discussion_r3503944004
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iceberg/iceberg-catalog/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/hive/HiveSchemaUtil.java:
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@@ -429,6 +446,24 @@ public static void setDefaultValues(Record record,
List<Types.NestedField> missi
}
}
+ /**
+ * Backfills struct column that is null on read using nested {@code
initialDefault} metadata.
+ * This applies to rows written before {@code ADD COLUMNS} added the struct.
+ * Spec allows struct defaults as {@code {}} (see
https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/#default-values), but
+ * {@code UpdateSchema} add column only supports primitives today;
Review Comment:
I meant here was underlying primitives of struct, corrected the comment
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