Columns have support for key/value pairs in the metadata:

https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift#L489

Let me know if that works for you.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Mohammad Islam <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi All,
> What is the best way of tagging any field schema with metadata? Does
> Parquet support it? I think Avro has "doc" attribute. Also Hive schema has
> "comments".
> I need to tag each field whether it is PII or not. I think someone may
> want to add description of a field as well.
> Regards,Mohammad
>
>

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