[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #1617: Support relative paths in Table Metadata

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rdblue commented on issue #1617:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/1617#issuecomment-878426784


   @pvary, I'm talking only about the metadata.json files. I agree that using relative paths for manifest lists, manifests, and data files is a good idea. But we keep the table location in the root metadata file and so it is difficult to make its location relative.
   
   I think we could do this for Hadoop tables by ignoring the location in metadata.json because it must match the table location. But Hadoop tables are mostly for testing and I don't recommend using them in practice. The bigger issue is how to track the table location for Hive or other metastore tables. In that case, I don't think it is unreasonable to use `updateLocation` to change the location of the table, but it is definitely inconvenient.


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