Thanks Ed for raising this! Overall I'm +1 to this. We need input from others since it is a slight breaking change.
Best, Gang On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 9:41 PM Ed Seidl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Following a lively discussion on this list, I thought I’d take a stab at > addressing one pain point in the Parquet footer. I’ve put up a proposal [1] > and PR [2] to switch path_in_schema in the ColumnMetaData from “required” > to “optional”. I’ve also whipped up PoCs in Rust [3] and Java [4]. > > Please take a look and let’s discuss in the PR. > > Thanks, > Ed > > [1] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/issues/563 > [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/564 > [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9678 > [4] https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3470 >
