Hi Anja, Thanks for your interest! We encourage people's new proposals. Go head to make a proposal and the community can review it.
Xinli On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:53 PM Anja <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there interest in having the float16 logical type standardised in the > Parquet spec? I am proposing a PR for Arrow that will write float16 to > Parquet as FixedSizeBinary: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17464 > but for the sake of portability between data analysis tools, it would of > course be a lot better to have this type standardised in the format itself. > > Previous requests for this have been here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1647 and here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-758 . > > With the development of neural networks, half-precision floating points are > becoming more popular: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format ; I do > think that a demand exists for its support. I am new to the project, but am > happy to contribute development time if there is support for this feature, > and guidance. > > Warm regards, > > Anja > -- Xinli Shang
