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 >
