Thank you Ed for sending the PRs. I was about to do this myself but saw you
just did it!

Totally on board removing use of the field asap.


On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 at 11:35, Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > It seems like at very least we could do is make a PR to parquet-java to
> > stop needing `path_in_schema`.
> >
> >
> +1
>
>
> > And then we could add some info to the spec explaining older readers
> might
> > need it, but newer readers might choose not to populate it if they wanted
> > to reduce their metadata size (at the expense of older readers not being
> > able to read it)
> >
> >
> +1
>
> It'd be good for parquet cli tools to log when the field is missing, so
> it's easy to check for a file being compatible with older releases before
> shipping and waiting for complaints.
>
> Steve
>

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