[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on a diff in pull request #6214: Docs: Update the view spec

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rdblue commented on code in PR #6214:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6214#discussion_r1033021155


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format/view-spec.md:
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@@ -32,14 +32,11 @@ Each compute engine stores the metadata of the view in its proprietary format in
 ## Goals
 
 * A common metadata format for view metadata, similar to how Iceberg supports a common table format for tables.
-* The view metadata format specification
-  * Includes storage format as well as APIs to write/read the metadata.
-  * Supports versioning of views to track how a view evolved over time.
 
 ## Overview
 
 View metadata storage mirrors how Iceberg table metadata is stored and retrieved. View metadata is maintained in metadata files. All changes to view state create a new view metadata file and completely replace the old metadata using an atomic swap. Like Iceberg tables, this atomic swap is delegated to the metastore that tracks tables and/or views by name. The view metadata file tracks the view schema, custom properties, current and past versions, as well as other metadata.
-Each metadata file is self-sufficient. It contains the history of the last few operations performed on the view and can be used to roll back the view to a previous version.
+Each metadata file is self-sufficient. It contains the history of the last few operations performed on the view. The view can be roll back to a previous version using these version ids.

Review Comment:
   I don't think this needs to change.



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