[GitHub] [iceberg] RussellSpitzer commented on issue #6373: Question about usage of RewriteFile with Zorder Strategy

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RussellSpitzer commented on issue #6373:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/6373#issuecomment-1340250944

   There are two main issues here,
   
   1) If you only add enough data for a single file it is most likely not going to help if that single file has been ZOrdered all by itself. Z ordering as we have it currently implemented can only really help across multiple files being ZOrdered at the same time. This is similar to if you were just doing a normal sort, sorting a single file in isolation would not change the min/max stats of that file so it wouldn't help iceberg.
   
   2) We currently do not have the ability to have ZOrder as a table defined sort order yet. There are tickets for that but currently if you wanted to take advantage of ZOrdering you would need to use rewrite again. Again like with normal sort, you would only gain the benefit from effected files.


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