Thanks for your answer, Ryan.
In the short term we'll only have INSERT INTO/OVERWRITE for Icebeg tables
in Impala (so the way to go is AppendFiles and ReplacePartitions
accordingly).
But I agree that a MERGE INTO statement would be super useful. Hopefully
we'll add support for it as well in the not
Zoltan,
The warning is that dynamic overwrites in general aren't recommended.
ReplacePartitions is the right operation to use for dynamic overwrite, we
just want to steer users away from dynamic overwrites in general.
The problem with dynamic overwrite is that its behavior depends on the
underlyi
Hey everyone,
I'm currently working on the INSERT OVERWRITE statement for Iceberg tables
in Impala.
Seems like ReplacePartitions is the perfect interface for this job:
https://github.infra.cloudera.com/CDH/iceberg/blob/cdpd-master/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/ReplacePartitions.java
IIUC
