Enable liquid clustering for delta lakes #316
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In practice, for most of our big raw tables, this will involve clustering on a single column:
id, in which case Delta Lake falls back to a very simple ZORDER algorithm (making sure that the data files are ordered byid, to make looking up viaideasy) -- which is still good, just not as sleek and cool as the full "liquid clustering" algorithm.But it's still good to do for two reasons:
Delta Lake Protocol Notes:
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