Maybe the comments in the specification (https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift) are sufficiently clear?
On Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is there a document that explains the metadata ( > https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format/metadata) in English? I can > read code, but I'd rather not :) There seems to be some hand-wavy language > that defines certain bits, but I haven't found anything that defines each > field in the metadata or anything that really defines the format itself > other than the metadata picture and this: > https://parquet.apache.org/docs/file-format > > Thanks, > > -- > Andrew Bell > [email protected]
