Fokko Driesprong

@opwvhk Could you resolve the merge conflicts?

Thanks for working on this @opwvhk 🙌

A release is near, see the public mailing list: https://lists.apache.org/thread/qg70g7d9j5odkf8fxnnm342mm2kj997l I would say this month since the release process always takes some time in open source.

@dataders Thanks for pinging me. I worked with Databricks' Spark connect quite a bit, and it is great to see that it is now part of Spark Open Source. I...

Thanks for pointing out @dongjoon-hyun. I've fixed it right away 👍

I have to look into the tests 👀

This would be awesome to support `CREATE OR REPLACE`. For `dbt-trino` this would mean that we can replace: ```sql create table sandbox.dbt_trino.rides__dbt_tmp alter table "sandbox"."dbt_trino"."rides" rename to sandbox.dbt_trino.rides__dbt_backup alter table...

@jarias1 You can read a table directly from the metadata: https://iceberg.apache.org/javadoc/1.5.0/org/apache/iceberg/StaticTableOperations.html This allow for read-only access. For writes a catalog is needed to handle concurrent operations.

Migrated this issue to the `iceberg-python` repository: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/16

This is in: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6233