Can you give an example of using the ParquteFile.iter_batches() API?  I can
see it returns a 'generator' class, but not sure how to iterate over the
results to get at the underlying row data.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 11:33 AM David Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ah, I'm sorry. I misremembered, I was recalling the implementation of
> ReadOneRowGroup/ReadRowGroups, but iter_batches() boils down to
> GetRecordBatchReader which does read at a finer granularity.
>
> -David
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021, at 11:50, Micah Kornfield wrote:
>
> Just a shot in the dark, but how many row groups are there in that 1 GB
> file? IIRC, the reader loads an entire row group's worth of rows at once.
>
>
> Can you clarify what you mean by "loads" I thought it only loaded the
> compressed data at once, and then read per page (I could be misremembering
> or thinking this was an aspirational goal).
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 4:01 PM Partha Dutta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I see 5 row groups. This parquet file contains 1.8 million records
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 4:51 PM David Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Just a shot in the dark, but how many row groups are there in that 1 GB
> file? IIRC, the reader loads an entire row group's worth of rows at once.
>
>
> -David
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, at 17:45, Partha Dutta wrote:
>
> I have a similar issue with trying to read huge 1GB parquet files from
> Azure DataLake Storage. I'm trying to read the file in small chunks using
> the ParquetFile.iter_batches method, but it seems like the entire file is
> read into memory before the first batch is returned. I am using the Azure
> SDK for python and another python package (pyarrowfs-adlgen2). Has anyone
> faced a problem similar to what I am seeing, or is there a workaround?
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 2:11 PM Cindy McMullen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Arthur, this helps.  The complete code example is:
>
> filename = 'gs://' + files[0]
> gs = gcsfs.GCSFileSystem()
> f = gs.open(filename)
> pqf = pq.ParquetFile(f)
> pqf.metadata
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 1:48 AM Arthur Andres <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Cindy,
>
> In your case you'd have to pass a GCS file instance to the ParquetFile
> constructor. Something like this:
>
> source = fs.open_input_file(filename)
> parquet_file = pq.ParquetFile(source)
>
> You can see how read_table does this in the source code:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/16c442a03e2cf9c7748f0fa67b6694dbeb287fad/python/pyarrow/parquet.py#L1977
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 05:17, Cindy McMullen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I need to drop down to the ParquetFile API so I can have better control
> over batch size for reading huge Parquet files.  The filename is:
>
>
> *gs://graph_infra_steel_thread/output_pq/parquet/usersims/output-20211202-220329-20211202-220329-00-0012.parquet.snappy*
>
> This invocation fails:
> *pqf = pq.ParquetFile(filename)*
> "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] Failed to open local file
> 'gs://graph_infra_steel_thread/output_pq/parquet/usersims/output-20211202-220329-20211202-220329-00-0012.parquet.snappy'.
> Detail: [errno 2] No such file or directory"
>
> While this API, using the same, succeeds because I can specify 'gs'
> filesystem.
> *table = pq.read_table(filename, filesystem=gs, use_legacy_dataset=False) *
>
> I don't see a way to specify 'filesystem' on the ParquetFile API
> <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.parquet.ParquetFile.html#pyarrow.parquet.ParquetFile>.
> Is there any way to read a GCS file using ParquetFile?
>
> If not, can you show me the code for reading batches using pq.read_table
> or one of the other Arrow Parquet APIs
> <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/formats.html#parquet-files>?
>
> Thanks -
>
> -- Cindy
>
>
>
> --
> Partha Dutta
> [email protected]
>
>
> --
> Partha Dutta
> [email protected]
>
>
>

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