Re: Interest in adding the float16 logical type to the Parquet spec

Just as a follow-up on the proposal PR [1]. A blocker came up based on the fact that we have never fully addressed how statistics for floating point values (PARQUET-1222 ). [1] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/184 On Wed, Aug 24,

Re: Interest in adding the float16 logical type to the Parquet spec

Hi Anja, Thanks for your interest! We encourage people's new proposals. Go head to make a proposal and the community can review it. Xinli On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:53 PM Anja wrote: > Hello! > > Is there interest in having the float16 logical type standardised in the > Parquet spec? I am

Interest in adding the float16 logical type to the Parquet spec

Hello! Is there interest in having the float16 logical type standardised in the Parquet spec? I am proposing a PR for Arrow that will write float16 to Parquet as FixedSizeBinary:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17464 but for the sake of portability between data analysis tools, it would