dongjoon-hyun commented on code in PR #38904:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/38904#discussion_r1042043454


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sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/colstats/ColumnStatistics.java:
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+/*
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+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.colstats;
+
+import java.math.BigInteger;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.OptionalLong;
+
+import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.Statistics;
+
+/**
+ * An interface to represent column statistics, which is part of
+ * {@link Statistics}.
+ *
+ * @since 3.4.0
+ */
+@Evolving
+public interface ColumnStatistics {
+
+  /**
+   * @return number of distinct values in the column
+   */
+  default Optional<BigInteger> distinctCount() {
+    return Optional.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return minimum value in the column
+   */
+  default Optional<Object> min() {
+    return Optional.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return maximum value in the column
+   */
+  default Optional<Object> max() {
+    return Optional.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return number of nulls in the column
+   */
+  default Optional<BigInteger> nullCount() {
+    return Optional.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return average length of the values in the column
+   */
+  default OptionalLong avgLen() {
+    return OptionalLong.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return maximum length of the values in the column
+   */
+  default OptionalLong maxLen() {
+    return OptionalLong.empty();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return histogram of the values in the column
+   */
+  default Optional<Histogram> histogram() {

Review Comment:
   I agree with you that this could be unused APIs due to many practical 
reasons in many DSv2 implementations, but the interface itself is useful with a 
concrete purpose.
   



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