is there an option to pin table version

[djouallah]

is there a way to cache all iceberg metadata, basically like pin delta in the delta extensions, my case is read only access to an IRC

[Tmonster]

It is something we have been thinking about implementing. With read only access, does that mean you also do not care about updates to tables?

The current design would be to request the metadata for each table only when it is first attached, and then returning the metadata from the first request for all subsequent requests. Is that an accurate representation for pinning?

[djouallah]

I do care a lot of updates and consistency :)

but in some cases ( read only BI kind of workload), I know the data will not be changed, or I am happy to have a tradeoff in the name of performance, so the design you are thinking about is perfect