greenlaw opened a new issue, #2699: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/2699
### Feature Request / Improvement I recently discovered that full stats collection (i.e. `lower_bounds`/`upper_bounds`) is explicitly [disabled](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/blob/7acdb12f5239594e593f2822de75c7a4c669f52f/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py#L2220-L2223) in PyIceberg for nested (i.e. struct child) fields. This change was made in [this PR](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/7831) and specifically [this commit](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/7831/commits/6f7bd987e50d4978aeae333d759e34422f7cfb78). It seems that this change may have been made to limit the number of fields whose stats are collected when default-full stats collection is enabled. However, after discussion it seems that simply adding support for the `write.metadata.metrics.max-inferred-column-defaults` table [property](https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/nightly/configuration/#write-properties) would be the preferred way to control stats growth. If this is implemented, re-enabling stats collection for nested fields should be a non-issue. Stats collection for nested struct fields is important for schemas like [GeoParquet](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/) which store important primitive fields (in this case, bounding box xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) using structs. See also [this slack thread](https://apache-iceberg.slack.com/archives/C029EE6HQ5D/p1762221916113919) for discussion. -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
