+1 (non-binding)
> On Jul 13, 2026, at 11:14 AM, Divjot Arora via dev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> +1 (non-binding)
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 19:34 Burak Yavuz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This is a vote to add support for FILE as a new LogicalTypeAnnotation in
>> Parquet as discussed
>> in the design document
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiwrstqkwkBoOZqgOkm9JGwSMcNeHyLR7EEj1CVqpZQ/edit?tab=t.81io57da7gz#heading=h.nely2c1b14se
>>>
>> and proposal pull request
>> <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/585>.
>> We’ve had extensive discussions on this in the design documents (first
>> proposal
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiwrstqkwkBoOZqgOkm9JGwSMcNeHyLR7EEj1CVqpZQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.k8qyue4jj4rn
>>> ,
>> finalized
>> <
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiwrstqkwkBoOZqgOkm9JGwSMcNeHyLR7EEj1CVqpZQ/edit?tab=t.81io57da7gz#heading=h.nely2c1b14se
>>> )
>> as well
>> as the proposal pull request
>> <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/585>, biweekly parquet
>> syncs, and the discussion thread
>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/od9hxfssjgnmsh23o18q78hszowq7pcy>.
>>
>> Reference implementations are available in parquet-java
>> <https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3608> and arrow-rs
>> <https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/10109>.
>>
>> This vote will be open for at least 72 hours:
>>
>> [ ] +1: Add the new FileType to the Parquet spec
>> [ ] +0: Not going to block, but prefer . . .
>> [ ] -1: Do not add FileType to Parquet
>>
>> Thank you for all the feedback, input, and involvement in developing this
>> new type!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Burak Yavuz
>>
