[IMPALA-10739] Add support for ALTER TABLE tbl SET PARTITION SPEC for Iceberg tables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: Impala 4.1.0
• Labels: impala-iceberg
• Epic Link: Iceberg support in Impala
• Epic Color: ghx-label-14
• Assignee: Attila Jeges
• Reporter: Zoltán Borók-Nagy
• Created: 09/Jun/21 17:53
• Updated: 03/Dec/21 05:40
• Resolved: 03/Aug/21 19:19

Description

Impala should support partition evolution for Iceberg tables, i.e. it should be able to set a new partition spec for an Iceberg table via DDL.

The command should be

ALTER TABLE <tbl> SET PARTITION SPEC(<partition-spec>)

to be aligned with Hive.