+1 (binding) On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 4:37 PM rdb...@gmail.com <rdb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I'd like to vote on PR #10955 > <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10955> that has been open for a > while with the changes to add new type promotion cases. After discussion, > the PR has been scoped down to keep complexity low. It now adds: > > * An `unknown` type for cases when only `null` values have been observed > * Type promotion from `unknown` to any other type > * Type promotion from `date` to `timestamp` or `timestamp_ns` > * Clarification that promotion is not allowed if it breaks transform > results > > The set of changes is quite a bit smaller than originally proposed because > of the issue already discussed about lower and upper bounds values, and it > no longer includes variant. I think that we can add more type promotion > cases after we improve bounds metadata. This adds what we can now to keep > v3 moving forward. > > Please vote in the next 72 hours: > > [ ] +1, commit the proposed spec changes > [ ] -0 > [ ] -1, do not make these changes because . . . > > Thanks, > > Ryan >
