hadrian-reppas commented on issue #46629:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46629#issuecomment-2997813098
Hi, I'm taking a look at this issue and had a few questions:
1. What are some situations where schemas are normalized when reading the
files? The only `FragmentEvolutionStrategy` I have found is
`BasicFragmentEvolution` which dosen't handle type promotions. Or are you
talking about the call to `UnifySchemas` in `DatasetFactory::Inspect`?
2. If so, it looks like the C++ API already supports this:
```cpp
std::string path1 = "dataset/int8.parquet"; // value:
dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>
std::string path2 = "dataset/int16.parquet"; // value:
dictionary<values=string, indices=int16, ordered=0>
auto factory = FileSystemDatasetFactory::Make(
std::make_shared<arrow::fs::LocalFileSystem>(), {path1, path2},
std::make_shared<ParquetFileFormat>(),
FileSystemFactoryOptions{}).ValueOrDie();
InspectOptions options;
options.fragments = InspectOptions::kInspectAllFragments;
options.field_merge_options = Field::MergeOptions::Permissive();
auto schema = factory->Inspect(options).ValueOrDie(); // value:
dictionary<values=string, indices=int16, ordered=0>
auto dataset = factory->Finish(schema).ValueOrDie();
auto scanner = dataset->NewScan().ValueOrDie()->Finish().ValueOrDie();
auto table = scanner->ToTable().ValueOrDie(); // value:
dictionary<values=string, indices=int16, ordered=0>
```
It seems like doing it this way in Python is currently impossible because
the `FileSystemDatasetFactory.inspect` method [does not take an `options`
argument](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.dataset.FileSystemDatasetFactory.html#pyarrow.dataset.FileSystemDatasetFactory.inspect).
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