Github user omalley commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/299#discussion_r208392508 --- Diff: java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/StringColumnStatistics.java --- @@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ */ String getMaximum(); + /** + * Get the string with + * length = Min(StringStatisticsImpl.MAX_BYTES_RECORDED, getMinimum()) + * @return lower bound + */ + String getLowerBound(); + + /** + * Get the string with + * length = Min(StringStatisticsImpl.MAX_BYTES_RECORDED, getMaximum()) --- End diff -- Same here.
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