rdblue commented on issue #2043: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/2043#issuecomment-758281167
Conversion to and from string for partition data has caused a lot of bugs in Hive and other projects that use Hive tables. I do not think that it is a good idea to do it in general. Avoiding those bugs is the reason why Iceberg always keeps track of the partition values as a struct or row and serializes it as data. I think it is a bad idea to add this to the Iceberg library because it would encourage a bad practice. If you need to do that for Impala in the short term, then let's keep the implementation there; hopefully with a note to fix it later. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
