pitrou commented on code in PR #196: URL: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/196#discussion_r1243576356
########## src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift: ########## @@ -966,6 +985,23 @@ struct ColumnIndex { /** A list containing the number of null values for each page **/ 5: optional list<i64> null_counts + + /** + * A list of Boolean values to determine pages that contain only NaNs. Only + * present for columns of type FLOAT and DOUBLE. If true, all non-null + * values in a page are NaN. Writers are suggested to set the corresponding + * entries in min_values and max_values to NaN, so that all lists have the same + * length and contain valid values. If false, then either all values in the + * page are null or there is at least one non-null non-NaN value in the page. + * As readers are supposed to ignore all NaN values in bounds, legacy readers + * who do not consider nan_pages yet are still able to use the column index + * but are not able to skip only-NaN pages. + */ + 6: optional list<bool> nan_pages Review Comment: > d) Stick with nan_pages (or value_counts) (i.e., alternatives (2) or (3)) and write min=-Infinity and max=+Infinity into the bounds in the column index for only-NaN pages. What if a page contains actual infinity values? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@parquet.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org