The main conversation started over at #1841 (comment) where the PR went from a bug fix to a full blown feature.
Basically, this issue exists to keep track of the currently-missing FIRST/AFTER support when we were adding general ALTER support for directly modifying Iceberg tables.
E.g.
ALTER TABLE `ns1.table1`
(MODIFY COLUMN `col2` Nullable(Int32) FIRST );
The main conversation started over at #1841 (comment) where the PR went from a bug fix to a full blown feature.
Basically, this issue exists to keep track of the currently-missing FIRST/AFTER support when we were adding general ALTER support for directly modifying Iceberg tables.
E.g.