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Re:The Birth of Parquet by fock on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:44AM (#40305876)
> Hierarchically, a file consists of one or more row groups.

https://parquet.apache.org/docs/concepts/

Maybe the file in question only has one row group. Which would be weird, because the creator had to go out of their way to make it happen.

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Re:The Birth of Parquet by jjtheblunt on Thursday May 09, 2024 @09:02AM (#40307784)
Yep. I use it all the time. But, as you said, depends on specific layouts, so can’t expect it to be row-convenient .
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