thinkharderdev commented on issue #5775:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/5775#issuecomment-2115990080

   > > What would really be cool is to be able to skip decoding entirely for 
metadata not needed for a particular operation (eg skip decoding of 
ColumnChunks that are not being projected by the reader)
   > 
   > This would effectively achieve that by making the decoding step as 
inexpensive as skipping over data. The nature of variable length encodings 
means you have to scan through regardless
   
   Yeah true, looking at the compact encoding again I guess there is no way to 
skip variable length structs/list elements without decoding them 


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