Docs: Document reading in Spark using branch and tag identifiers #9238
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Writing to a branch or tag is supported in Spark using a table identifier with
branch_<branchname>ortag_<tagname>. Reading from the branch or tag is supported using the same kind of identifier, in addition to theVERSION AS OFsyntax, but this is not documented. For consistency, users may prefer to read and write using the same syntax. We should document that they can.Note: When loading a table using identifiers with
snapshot_id_andat_timestamp_was implemented, this was considered an implementation detail and we did not expose it publicly (i.e., document it). However, since thebranch_andtag_identifiers are used for writes and documented, we should expose them for reads as well.