Jacques, you make some good points here. I think my argument about
usability leading to performance issues is a stronger argument for engines
than for Iceberg. Still, there are inefficiencies in Iceberg if someone
chooses to use a string in an engine that doesn't have a UUID type.
Another thing to
I am personally against UUID that does not guarantee at the spec level that
they are unique across something. Even if the spec could guarantee that, it
feels like we are trying to define a type for what should be a constraint.
I would rather remove support for UUID and let the engines do coercion w
