rdblue commented on PR #5585:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5585#issuecomment-1221415290

   @hililiwei, we want to introduce standard syntax for this to avoid 
divergence across engines:
   
   ```sql
   -- Read from a branch
   SELECT * FROM table BRANCH branch_name
   -- Insert into a branch
   INSERT INTO table BRANCH branch_name SELECT ...
   -- Merge into a branch
   MERGE INTO table BRANCH branch_name USING ...
   -- Read from a tag
   SELECT * FROM table AT TAG tag_name
   ```
   
   It's very unlikely that other engines will support the multipart identifier 
syntax. Right now, I think we should focus on getting dataframe operations 
working and then move on to SQL after that.


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