etseidl commented on issue #8608: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8608#issuecomment-5780153135
It's fun to go spelunking through the blame record of parquet.thrift 😄. Apparently, early on this field actually stored a histogram of all the distinct values 😮. This was later pared down to simply a distinct count. I think it's fair to assume that at the time it was meant to be exact. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
