lidavidm commented on a change in pull request #6744: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6744#discussion_r413757274
########## File path: cpp/src/parquet/file_reader.cc ########## @@ -212,6 +237,21 @@ class SerializedFile : public ParquetFileReader::Contents { file_metadata_ = std::move(metadata); } + void PreBuffer(const std::vector<int>& row_groups, + const std::vector<int>& column_indices, + const ::arrow::io::CacheOptions& options) { + cached_source_ = + std::make_shared<arrow::io::internal::ReadRangeCache>(source_, options); Review comment: It depends: reading multiple row groups at once might cache chunks that span row groups (and in general you want more opportunities to coalesce reads if you are aiming for throughput). For more control over that, a consumer could make repeated calls to `FileReader->RowGroup` to get individual RowGroupReaders that would cache only a single RowGroup. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org