Ok so I finally got it working but I'm running into an issue. It seems the exporter doesn't support exporting protocol V3,7 of delta..

Can you explain what you mean by protocol V3,7?

Minimum writer version 3 and minimum reader version 7

Currently, this feature is not supported at the moment. The protocol action can specify only min reader and min writer (without table features).

Can this be added then?

If it’s possible by your end, a feature request with the reasoning behind it could greatly impact the progression of such feature

Sure, but reader and writer features are the way forward for delta, so not supporting this means a hard stop at supporting new tables

It seems like you’ve got knowledge about it, and that you deeply understand the need for this feature. Therefore I think it would be great if you could elaborate on that, via a feature request, so that the team and contributors would be able to grasp it as well, and so that we could prioritize it properly.

Yeah I made feature requests now :)

The export process goes back to the latest checkpoint (or first entry) and starts exporting from that point forward. It exports a representation of the table and not a complete copy. It’s purpose is to allow the reading of the delta table from an external client which cannot reach lakeFS.

Ok then the exporter is incorrect though

why is that?

You should include the checkpoint since it contains the state of that table at that point in time. If you skip it, you don't know what the protocol versions are

Never said it’s skipped. The exporter grabs it and fetches all of the entries in it. It then uses it as the first log entry in the exported table.

Ah ok, that's fine yeah