+1 (binding) Thanks Aihua for driving this and everyone else that contributed to it.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> wrote: > +1 (binding) > > Thanks for getting this in Aihua! > > Kind regards, > Fokko > > Op wo 20 aug 2025 om 20:26 schreef Aihua Xu <aihu...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi community, > > > > I’d like to follow up on our community sync to proceed with finalizing > the > > variant spec. > > > > Per the Parquet specification requirements, two reference implementations > > are needed to finalize the Variant logical type. Both Java and Go > > implementations now support variant encoding and shredding. > > > > Java already has the encoding and shredding implementations in place: > > apache/parquet-java#3197 < > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3197 > > > > > apache/parquet-java#3202 < > https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3202 > > > > > apache/parquet-java#3223 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3223> > > apache/parquet-java#3211 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/issues/3211> > > > > Go also includes encoding and shredding support: > > apache/arrow-go#344 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/344> > > apache/arrow-go#434 <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/434> > > > > In addition, we have also completed cross-language validations between > the > > Java and Go implementations (PR#3258 > > <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3258> and PR#455 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/pull/455>) to confirm compatibility > > and > > make sure that the specs can be interpreted consistently. Rust has also > > validated against the Variant test suites in PR#8104 > > <https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8104>. > > > > Given this progress, I propose that we remove the "under development" > notes > > from the documentation and move forward with finalizing the > specifications > > (PR > > #509 <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/509>). > > This vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > > > [ ] +1 Finalize Varint and Shredding Spec > > [ ] +0 > > [ ] -1 Do not release this because... > > >
