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Reading Equality deletes#3269

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@rambleraptor rambleraptor commented Apr 22, 2026

Rationale for this change

Equality Deletes are deprecated in the Iceberg spec. That being said, they still exist out in the wild. We should have support for reading them (it's a major blind spot we have for v2 support), but explicitly block writing them.

Are these changes tested?

I've included unit tests. I tested this with a (hand-written sadly) equality delete file and made sure that both PyIceberg + Spark understood it.

Are there any user-facing changes?

  • Adds support for reading Equality deletes

@rambleraptor rambleraptor marked this pull request as ready for review April 23, 2026 23:12
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