Iceberg history log management

[jonsnowseven]

Hello all.

I have a question regarding how Polaris handles Iceberg history.

When a commit is added to the history, does Polaris do anything behind the scenes regarding Iceberg history management or simply respects the Iceberg properties (e.g., write.metadata.delete-after-commit.enabled=false)?

Thank you in advance.

[jbonofre]

Hi
Afaik, Polaris doesn't do anything about Iceberg "history". The snapshots are basically part of the table metadata.json: Polaris exposes it (and can optionally filter some snapshots).