On 2025-10-01 18:11 UTC Andrew Lamb wrote:
> I would like to start a discussion to help organize and rally anyone
> interested in adding new encodings to Parquet.
>
> I am pretty sure there are many people interested in adding new encodings,
> but there are only a few mentions on the mailing list, such as pcode [1]
> and FSST/ALP/FastLanes [2]. Prateek mentioned on the sync call today
> that he is working on evaluating some potential encodings and hopes to have
> some information to share soon, and Julien mentioned he had spoken to
> someone else who might be doing something similar.
>
> Now that Julien has defined a process to extend the spec[3] I think the
> steps are much clearer.
>
> So, I would like to invite anyone interested in adding new encodings to
> respond and let us know if you are willing to help evaluate new encodings
> and prototype integrations into Parquet implementations?
>
> Andrew
>
>
> [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/bdmfcj4g6y1ccd3mfgrp7d43d73s6zf6
> [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/s3o9jk0hr942pv6ono4ymnvvj6pfdsdw
> [3]:
> https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/proposals/README.md
>
Should we look at it again?
