[GitHub] [iceberg] laithalzyoud opened a new issue, #7849: PartitionSpec field name should be consistent for bucket and trunc in $partitions metadata table

["laithalzyoud (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

laithalzyoud opened a new issue, #7849:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/7849

   ### Feature Request / Improvement
   
   Hello!
   
   This is just a small improvement request to make field names in [PartitionSpec](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/PartitionSpec.java#L519-L521) and [UpdatePartitionSpec](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/BaseUpdatePartitionSpec.java#L516-L518) consistent. 
   
   Currently if you query the $partitions metadata table, you get the partition name as `col_bucket` if the partition spec was never evolved and you get `col_bucket_4` if the the partition spec evolved for the same partition. This inconsistency make code changes necessary on the client side if they use the $partitions table to handle both cases.
   
   The suggestion is to make the field name always `sourceName + "_bucket_" + numBuckets` for the base PartitionSpec to make it consistent 👍 
   
   ### Query engine
   
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