[GitHub] [iceberg] szehon-ho commented on issue #2481: Allow snapshotting iceberg table (create new table based on certain Iceberg snapshot)

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szehon-ho commented on issue #2481:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/2481#issuecomment-837459076


   Yea , snapshotting an Iceberg table would be a great usability feature for sharing a certain snapshot of a table to others.
   
   The stageOnly() API probably works for this but is not well known, and hard to expose through Spark/Hive to be shareable to other users.
   
   One risk would be a user running snapshot on an Iceberg table, then dropping it thinking they are only dropping the snapshot.  
    If I'm not mistaken, dropping the table through the Sparkcatalog (purge=true) will drop all the current data of the original table (a general problem of the snapshot command).


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