Johan Lasperas

I'm not aware of any plans, I've been focusing on type widening for some time now (https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/2622)

@keen85 If your merge only contains `whenMatched` update/delete clauses (and no `whenNotMatched` or `whenNotMatchedBySource` clauses) then it will benefit from https://github.com/delta-io/delta/pull/1851 (part of a series of improvements in https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/1827). You...

> Will be in future an option to change the column type of a table from int to string without overwriting the entire table? Unless such an option is now...

> Added a few suggestions for additional tests. Do we already have tests for constraints and generated columns. AFAIK we disallow type changes on generated columns, but constraints might be...

@boufousabd sorry for the delay, I believe this issue was already fixed last month by @Alexvsalexvsalex : https://github.com/delta-io/delta/commit/2937bc8fd7e9264ccc8369664b65584c88f2c21f I haven't updated the status on this bug report, that's my fault

@Richard-code-gig thanks for volunteering for this. I would start by adding a test in e.g. [deltaInsertIntoSuite](https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/DeltaInsertIntoTableSuite.scala#L44) to cover the problematic case and work from there. I believe this only impacts...

@Pshak-20000 You can take a look at https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md for general information about contributions to this project. You may want to start by checking with @Richard-code-gig to see if he's still...

> Hello @johanl-db, @Pshak-20000 I am working on it and almost done. Johanl I need your help on something minor to complete the assignment, please let me know how I...

@Richard-code-gig If you want some support/feedback from my side, you can open a PR even if it's not entirely finalized yet and we can discuss there