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Antoine Pitrou resolved PARQUET-1222.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Specify a well-defined sorting order for float and double types
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> Key: PARQUET-1222
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1222
> Project: Parquet
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parquet-format
> Reporter: Zoltan Ivanfi
> Assignee: Micah Kornfield
> Priority: Critical
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> Currently parquet-format specifies the sort order for floating point numbers
> as follows:
> {code:java}
> * FLOAT - signed comparison of the represented value
> * DOUBLE - signed comparison of the represented value
> {code}
> The problem is that the comparison of floating point numbers is only a
> partial ordering with strange behaviour in specific corner cases. For
> example, according to IEEE 754, -0 is neither less nor more than \+0 and
> comparing NaN to anything always returns false. This ordering is not suitable
> for statistics. Additionally, the Java implementation already uses a
> different (total) ordering that handles these cases correctly but differently
> than the C\+\+ implementations, which leads to interoperability problems.
> TypeDefinedOrder for doubles and floats should be deprecated and a new
> TotalFloatingPointOrder should be introduced. The default for writing doubles
> and floats would be the new TotalFloatingPointOrder. This ordering should be
> effective and easy to implement in all programming languages.
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