Yes, that would remove most of the benefits of a columnar file format. If you really want to filter exactly to one row (assuming that your rows are quite large). It would be better to use a row-wise format like Avro. To use Parquet, you should at least have 100 rows per RowGroup and for effective use, this should be well above 10k rows per RowGroup.
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