kbendick commented on issue #5556:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/5556#issuecomment-1219070741

   Also, what about a table property? Does the table experience writes where 
you explicitly _do not_ want `mergeSchema`?
   
   Generally, I think `mergeSchem` is safer as a per-query option and is 
somewhat unsafe as a table level configuration. But Spark makes it somehat hard 
to support that as there’s no Dataframe support for `MERGE INTO` currently.
   
   For the long run, I’m going to bring up adding a merge into API to the 
dataframe / dataset API in Spark. But that could take a while. We _might_ be 
able to provide implicit classes so that it’s do-able using the dataframe API 
in just Iceberg, but in the long run that should be moved to Spark (though that 
doesn’t solve your immediate problem, I know).


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