[HIVE-27880] Iceberg: Support creating a branch on an empty table

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Iceberg integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Butao Zhang
• Reporter: Butao Zhang
• Created: 16/Nov/23 15:05
• Updated: 29/Mar/24 17:49
• Resolved: 24/Feb/24 14:52

Description

After this Iceberg change https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/8072 which has been inclued iceberg1.4, we can create a branch on an empty. User can create an empty branch, and then write data into the branch.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4875