Iceberg Table Maintenance

[jonsnowseven]

Hello,

While reviewing the Polaris documentation, I came across the following statement in the Iceberg catalog capabilities section:
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Table maintenance Support in Polaris

Could you clarify what this means in practice? Specifically:

• Does this mean Polaris itself does not expose or implement maintenance operations, but clients can still perform them directly via the Iceberg REST API?
• Or does it mean that table and snapshot management is not supported at all, including through Iceberg REST?
• Or is another interpretation intended?

Thanks for the clarification.

[jbonofre]

Polaris can "host" the policies defining the tables maintenance (when to trigger it, etc).
However, Polaris itself doesn't perform the tables maintenance, you have to use an "external" service (for instance a Spark job) to "consume" the policies and execute the maintenance accordingly.