Fokko Driesprong

This looks good, let's move this forward, and wrap up anything pending in https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11283

Thanks @ajantha-bhat This looks good, if there are dangling issues, we can wrap them up in https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11283 Let's move this forward, thanks @kevinjqliu, @jbonofre, @bryanck and @danielcweeks for the review...

@panbamid-r Thanks for raising this and the comprehensive example. I'm able to reproduce it locally, let me dig into this right away

Thanks @kevinjqliu, using `get_first_property_value` is much cleaner

@ritchie46 For sure! Since I'm more of a Pythonista, could you point me to the right place to add a test?

@ritchie46 @alexander-beedie All checks are green!

As @sungwy already pointed out, `add_files` does not rewrite the data. This way, we would need to just write the data, and then project this into microseconds when reading, but...

Let's wait to see what comes out of https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12161

Since we allow both `source-id` and `source-ids` for V3: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12644. I don't think this issue is relevant anymore. I'll go ahead and close it for now.

> i like the idea of having all the table maintenance functions together, similar to delta table's [optimize](https://delta-io.github.io/delta-rs/api/delta_table/#deltalake.DeltaTable.optimize) That's a good point. However, I think we should be able to...