szehon-ho commented on issue #2481:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/2481#issuecomment-837459076
Yea , snapshotting an Iceberg table would be a great usability feature for
sharing a certain snapshot of a table to others.
The stageOnly() API probably works for this but is not well known, and hard
to expose through Spark/Hive to be shareable to other users.
One risk would be a user running snapshot on an Iceberg table, then dropping
it thinking they are only dropping the snapshot.
If I'm not mistaken, dropping the table through the Sparkcatalog
(purge=true) will drop all the current data of the original table (a general
problem of the snapshot command).
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