[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #3220: [Python] support iceberg hadoop catalog in python library

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rdblue commented on issue #3220:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/3220#issuecomment-1344611016

   For what it's worth, I think that **the biggest mistake I made with Iceberg was introducing the "Hadoop" tables** that rely on atomic rename.
   
   These tables have a lot of problems and limitations in HDFS, but the bigger problem is that people choose to use them on unsafe object stores to avoid having a catalog/metastore. I think that introducing these in the Python implementation will only cause people to think that this is a reasonable choice and cause a lot of problems.
   
   I'm a firm -1 on adding this to the Python implementation. If anyone wants to move forward with this, then I suggest we debate it on the mailing list and vote on it. If I'm out voted and the community clearly wants to do this I won't oppose it.


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