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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-1983:
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Velocity on these things should pick up in 2019 since the Ursa Labs team is
growing. The "Arrow Dataset" project extends beyond Parquet (where Parquet is
one storage format). Ideally this work will happen in Q1 2019. Handling the
"_metadata" file is lower hanging fruit so that can likely get done a lot sooner
> [Python] Add ability to write parquet `_metadata` file
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>
> Key: ARROW-1983
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1983
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Jim Crist
> Assignee: Robert Gruener
> Priority: Major
> Labels: beginner, parquet
> Fix For: 0.13.0
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> Currently {{pyarrow.parquet}} can only write the {{_common_metadata}} file
> (mostly just schema information). It would be useful to add the ability to
> write a {{_metadata}} file as well. This should include information about
> each row group in the dataset, including summary statistics. Having this
> summary file would allow filtering of row groups without needing to access
> each file beforehand.
> This would require that the user is able to get the written RowGroups out of
> a {{pyarrow.parquet.write_table}} call and then give these objects as a list
> to new function that then passes them on as C++ objects to {{parquet-cpp}}
> that generates the respective {{_metadata}} file.
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