Ryan Blue

Can you open a PR with the fix?

Are you asking whether this can stitch together task outputs into a single file?

I think most formats would be difficult to write with a multi-part API. You'd have to use structures within the file format to support this. An Avro flie, for example,...

> If you *had* to, it seems like you could write all the blocks, then do . . . Yeah, you could do it with special writers, it just requires...

This would be great! I think it's a little ways out since we can't yet write metadata files. But I think this should be an early target because it is...

Why remove the exclusions? It seems like that's valuable and we'll probably want them in the future.

Thanks, @findepi! I merged this.

@ajantha-bhat, do you think Nessie could move to the REST catalog API? That API fixes several problems, like the one here. The table location should be something that the catalog...

> I'm a bit out-of-date of the REST catalog impl., but could it have a common base class with the NessieCatalog perhaps?.. just an idea (for a future change) I...

Thanks, @pavibhai! Looks great so I merged it.