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@divjotarora divjotarora commented Aug 6, 2026

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Rationale for this change

We currently do not specify how readers should handle unrecognized logical types or logical/physical type combinations.

What changes are included in this PR?

Specify that unrecognized logical types or logical/physical type combinations should result in both the logical type annotation and stats being ignored.

Do these changes have PoC implementations?

parquet-java reference implementation

@divjotarora divjotarora changed the title GH-3710: Specify handling for unrecognized logical types GH-607: Specify handling for unrecognized logical types Aug 6, 2026

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Thanks for officially documenting this.

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Nice catch.

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Makes sense to me -- thank you @divjotarora

It may also make sense to put a note / link to this section from the main contributing guide where this is explicitly mentioned:

version of the format. New logical types are considered forward

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It may also make sense to put a note / link to this section from the main contributing guide where this is explicitly mentioned:

Nice catch @alamb, updated!

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Specify handling for unrecognized logical/physical type combinations

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