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Disabling orphan file deletion

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Disabling orphan file deletion - AWS Glue

You can disable orphan file deletion optimizer for a particular Apache Iceberg table using AWS Glue console or AWS CLI.

Console
To disable orphan file deletion

  1. Choose Data Catalog and choose Tables. From the tables list, choose the Iceberg table that you want to disable the optimizer for orphan file deletion.

  2. On lower section of the Table details page, choose Table optimization tab.

  3. Choose Actions, and then choose Disable , Orphan file deletion.

    You can also choose Disable under Optimization from the Actions menu.

  4. Choose Disable on the confirmation message. You can re-enable the orphan file deletion optimizer at a later time.

    After the you confirm, orphan file deletion optimizer is disabled and the status for orphan file deletion turns back to Not enabled.

AWS CLI

In the following example, replace the account ID with a valid AWS account ID. Replace the database name and table name with actual Iceberg table name and the database name. Replace the roleArn with the AWS Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role and actual name of the IAM role that has the required permissions to disable the optimizer.

aws glue update-table-optimizer \
  --catalog-id 123456789012 \
  --database-name iceberg_db \
  --table-name iceberg_table \
  --table-optimizer-configuration '{"roleArn":"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/optimizer_role", "enabled":'false'}'\ 
  --type orphan_file_deletion
API

Call the UpdateTableOptimizer operation to disable the snapshot retention optimizer for a specific table.

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To disable orphan file deletion

  1. Choose Data Catalog and choose Tables. From the tables list, choose the Iceberg table that you want to disable the optimizer for orphan file deletion.

  2. On lower section of the Table details page, choose Table optimization tab.

  3. Choose Actions, and then choose Disable , Orphan file deletion.

    You can also choose Disable under Optimization from the Actions menu.

  4. Choose Disable on the confirmation message. You can re-enable the orphan file deletion optimizer at a later time.

    After the you confirm, orphan file deletion optimizer is disabled and the status for orphan file deletion turns back to Not enabled.

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