Update docs to reflect default location provider (#1724)
Update the docs to reflect the simple location provider as the default
location provider.
related to #1721, and #1722.
diff --git a/mkdocs/docs/configuration.md b/mkdocs/docs/configuration.md
index bf81ff0..5758628 100644
--- a/mkdocs/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/mkdocs/docs/configuration.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
| `write.parquet.dict-size-bytes` | Size in bytes | 2MB | Set the dictionary page size limit per row group |
| `write.metadata.previous-versions-max` | Integer | 100 | The max number of previous version metadata files to keep before deleting after commit. |
| `write.metadata.delete-after-commit.enabled` | Boolean | False | Whether to automatically delete old *tracked* metadata files after each table commit. It will retain a number of the most recent metadata files, which can be set using property `write.metadata.previous-versions-max`. |
-| `write.object-storage.enabled` | Boolean | True | Enables the [`ObjectStoreLocationProvider`](configuration.md#object-store-location-provider) that adds a hash component to file paths. Note: the default value of `True` differs from Iceberg's Java implementation |
+| `write.object-storage.enabled` | Boolean | False | Enables the [`ObjectStoreLocationProvider`](configuration.md#object-store-location-provider) that adds a hash component to file paths. |
| `write.object-storage.partitioned-paths` | Boolean | True | Controls whether [partition values are included in file paths](configuration.md#partition-exclusion) when object storage is enabled |
| `write.py-location-provider.impl` | String of form `module.ClassName` | null | Optional, [custom `LocationProvider`](configuration.md#loading-a-custom-location-provider) implementation |
| `write.data.path` | String pointing to location | `{metadata.location}/data` | Sets the location under which data is written. |
@@ -213,8 +213,7 @@
For more granular control, you can override the `LocationProvider`'s `new_data_location` and `new_metadata_location` methods to define custom logic for generating file paths. See [`Loading a Custom Location Provider`](configuration.md#loading-a-custom-location-provider).
-PyIceberg defaults to the [`ObjectStoreLocationProvider`](configuration.md#object-store-location-provider), which generates file paths for
-data files that are optimized for object storage.
+PyIceberg defaults to the [`SimpleLocationProvider`](configuration.md#simple-location-provider) for managing file paths.
### Simple Location Provider
@@ -234,9 +233,6 @@
s3://bucket/ns/table/data/category=orders/0000-0-5affc076-96a4-48f2-9cd2-d5efbc9f0c94-00001.parquet
```
-The `SimpleLocationProvider` is enabled for a table by explicitly setting its `write.object-storage.enabled` table
-property to `False`.
-
### Object Store Location Provider
PyIceberg offers the `ObjectStoreLocationProvider`, and an optional [partition-exclusion](configuration.md#partition-exclusion)
@@ -255,8 +251,8 @@
s3://bucket/ns/table/data/0101/0110/1001/10110010/category=orders/0000-0-5affc076-96a4-48f2-9cd2-d5efbc9f0c94-00001.parquet
```
-The `write.object-storage.enabled` table property determines whether the `ObjectStoreLocationProvider` is enabled for a
-table. It is used by default.
+The `ObjectStoreLocationProvider` is enabled for a table by explicitly setting its `write.object-storage.enabled` table
+property to `True`.
#### Partition Exclusion
