Honah (Jonas) J.

Follow-up of https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/498

Follow-up of #498

Add `MergeAppendFiles`. This PR will enable the following configurations: - `commit.manifest-merge.enabled`: Controls whether to automatically merge manifests on writes. - `commit.manifest.min-count-to-merge`: Minimum number of manifests to accumulate before merging. -...

"partition-spec" and "schema" are deprecated but required field in v1 table metadata. For backward compatibility, I think we should to update "partition-spec" when applying `SetDefaultSpecUpdate` and "schema" when applying `SetCurrentSchemaUpdate`.

Inconsistency in catalog.list_tables Behavior Across Python and Java: Returns Non-Iceberg Tables in Python Only

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### Feature Request / Improvement I noticed that in python, `hive`, `glue` and `dynamo` list all tables, including non-Iceberg ones, in the namespace https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/acc934fb76aa6c6e2e32b60c8a99f9e2b2c627dd/pyiceberg/catalog/hive.py#L488-L504 https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/acc934fb76aa6c6e2e32b60c8a99f9e2b2c627dd/pyiceberg/catalog/glue.py#L584-L613 However, in java, we apply...

[Spec][Upstream] Mapping from DecimalType to Parquet physical type not aligned with spec

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### Apache Iceberg version main (development) ### Please describe the bug 🐞 According to the [parquet data type mappings spec](https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/#parquet). `DecimalType` should map to `INT32` when `precision