ajantha-bhat commented on code in PR #4945:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4945#discussion_r906020375
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format/spec.md:
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@@ -631,6 +632,30 @@ When expiring snapshots, retention policies in table and
snapshot references are
2. The snapshot is not one of the first `min-snapshots-to-keep` in the
branch (including the branch's referenced snapshot)
5. Expire any snapshot not in the set of snapshots to retain.
+#### Statistics file
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+Statistics files are valid [Puffin files](../puffin-spec). Statistics are
informational. A reader can choose to
Review Comment:
Do we need to add one more abstraction layer for `Statistics`.
Thinking of partition stats, For each partition value, if I am storing row
count and file count stats. There can be million rows.
So, puffin may not be efficient for that.
So, can we have an abstraction for statistics metadata?
Where stats like sketches are stored in Puffin and simple stats are stored
in parquet or Hfile or some other format ?
I can also see more than one stats file per snapshot (one in puffin format
and some in other format)
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