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Expand Up @@ -396,9 +396,7 @@ Iceberg types are converted to Flink types according to the following table:

## Future improvements

There are some features that are do not yet supported in the current Flink Iceberg integration work:
There are some features that are not yet supported in the current Flink Iceberg integration:

* Don't support creating iceberg table with hidden partitioning. [Discussion](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-dev/202008.mbox/%3cCABi+2jQCo3MsOa4+ywaxV5J-Z8TGKNZDX-pQLYB-dG+dVUMiMw@mail.gmail.com%3e) in flink mail list.
* Don't support creating iceberg table with computed column.
* Don't support creating iceberg table with watermark.
* Don't support adding columns, removing columns, renaming columns, changing columns. [FLINK-19062](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-19062) is tracking this.
* Creation of Iceberg table with hidden partitioning. [Discussion](http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-dev/202008.mbox/%3cCABi+2jQCo3MsOa4+ywaxV5J-Z8TGKNZDX-pQLYB-dG+dVUMiMw@mail.gmail.com%3e) in flink mail list.
* Creation of Iceberg table with computed column.