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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1259:
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Attachment: AVRO-1259.patch
Here's a patch that implements this.
No new tests are required, since TestShredder already writes and reads various
sequences of zero lengths.
> improve Trevni encoding of sparse fields
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> Key: AVRO-1259
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1259
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: trevni
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Attachments: AVRO-1259.patch
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> If in most records a field is null, Trevni writes a null byte (zero length)
> for that record in that column. This might be optimized by instead using a
> run-length encoding for lengths. The length is signed, so negative lengths
> might be used to indicate the number of zero-lengths before the next non-zero
> value. This could thus be back-compatible.
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