> > My instinct says "No", but others may have a different interpretation.
This is also my instinct, I think we should check validation in Parquet-java and parquet-cpp to see if they are in agreement on the matter and then make a decision from there. It doesn't seem too onerous to support FLBA as a String though if necessary? Cheers, Micah On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM Ed Seidl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > While discussing PARQUET-2485 a question was raised about the STRING > annotation [1]. The current wording in the specification is "|STRING| > may only be used to annotate the binary primitive type"; PARQUET-2485 > would change that to "|STRING| may only be used to annotate the > |BYTE_ARRAY| primitive type". The question is, can FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY > also be annotated with STRING? My instinct says "No", but others may > have a different interpretation. > > Are there any strong opinions in the community? Are there any > implementations that allow fixed length strings? > > Thanks, > Ed > > [1] > https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/251#discussion_r1635669939 >
