jackye1995 commented on pull request #3269: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/3269#issuecomment-940305888
I agree with @rdblue that we should allow time travel query using table name. It's not likely for `AS OF` to be supported by all query engines and platforms in the near future. We can only add that when the engine supports it. But there is always a use case for using table name to perform time travel, because there are applications that user only have control of some parts of the SQL such as table name but do not have control over the entire SQL. For those applications, there is no way to add `AS OF` clause even if we support that, and user has to embed the information in the table name. This is also one of the reasons why there is not much motivation in different communities to support `AS OF`. -- 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]
