Neer393 opened a new issue, #13488: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/13488
### Feature Request / Improvement Currently, there is no way to make an iceberg table readonly # Current scenario Hive engine supports a table property called 'immutable' which when set to true, disables writes on the tables irrespective of being a Hive Table or Iceberg Table. The issue is only Hive engine respects this table property but other engines like Impala, Spark, etc still allow writes and hence we cannot achieve a truly 'immutable' table. # Possible implementation Iceberg can support another table property called 'write.enabled' which will default to true and allow writes on the Iceberg Table. When this property is set to false, I want iceberg to freeze the metadata so that even if any engine that does not respect this property tries writing on to the table, it eventually fails due to frozen metadata. Please feel free to add any suggestions to this idea CC:- @rdblue ### Query engine None ### Willingness to contribute - [ ] I can contribute this improvement/feature independently - [ ] I would be willing to contribute this improvement/feature with guidance from the Iceberg community - [x] I cannot contribute this improvement/feature at this time -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
