stevenzwu commented on code in PR #14234:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14234#discussion_r3230544687


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format/spec.md:
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@@ -704,11 +727,111 @@ Examples of valid field paths using normalized JSON path 
format are:
 * `$['tags']` -- the `tags` array
 * `$['addresses']['zip']` -- the `zip` field in an `addresses` array that 
contains objects
 
-For `geometry` and `geography` types, `lower_bounds` and `upper_bounds` are 
both points of the following coordinates X, Y, Z, and M (see Appendix G) which 
are the lower / upper bound of all objects in the file.
+##### Content Stats
 
-For `geography` only, xmin (X value of `lower_bounds`) may be greater than 
xmax (X value of `upper_bounds`), in which case an object in this bounding box 
may match if it contains an X such that x >= xmin OR x <= xmax. In geographic 
terminology, the concepts of xmin, xmax, ymin, and ymax are also known as 
westernmost, easternmost, southernmost and northernmost, respectively. These 
points are further restricted to the canonical ranges of [-180..180] for X and 
[-90..90] for Y.
+In Iceberg v4, statistics are stored in typed fields grouped in a struct that 
corresponds to the table field. These stats structs are nested within the 
`content_stats` struct in manifest files.
 
-When calculating upper and lower bounds for `geometry` and `geography`, null 
or NaN values in a coordinate dimension are skipped; for example, POINT (1 NaN) 
contributes a value to X but no values to Y, Z, or M dimension bounds. If a 
dimension has only null or NaN values, that dimension is omitted from the 
bounding box. If either the X or Y dimension is missing then the bounding box 
itself is not produced.
+###### Field Statistics
+
+Field-level structs in `content_stats` are based on the corresponding table 
field's type, requirement, and ID (`field-id`).
+
+Field stats structs are assigned a range of 200 IDs, starting at `10_000 + 200 
* field-id`. The first ID in the range (`base-id`) is the ID of the struct 
field in `content_stats`. Fields within the stats struct are assigned IDs from 
the range by adding an offset to the `base-id`. For example, the stats struct 
for table field 2 uses IDs in the range `[10_400, 10_599]`, the field within 
`content_stats` has uses the `base-id`, ID `10_400`, and its `lower_bound` 
field (offset 1) uses ID `10_401`.
+
+Content stats must be resovled by ID; field names used for stats structs are 
informational. The recommended name for each field is the full name of the 
field in the table schema.
+
+IDs in the range `10_000` (inclusive) to `200_000_000` (exclusive) are 
reserved for column stats structs in `content_stats`. Stats for table fields 
with IDs outside that range cannot be stored in `content_stats`.
+
+[Reserved metadata fields](#reserved-field-ids) must use the stats ID ranges 
from the following table. Stats for metadata fields not in the table are not 
tracked.
+
+| Reserved field                  | ID         | `base-id` | Range end |
+|---------------------------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
+| `_last_updated_sequence_number` | 2147483539 | 9000      | 9199 |
+| `_row_id`                       | 2147483540 | 9200      | 9399 |
+
+Each stats struct holds statistics for one table field. It may contain the 
following metrics:
+
+| Requirement | Offset | Name                      | Type                      
| Included for                                  | Description |
+|-------------|--------|---------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| _optional_  | 1      | `lower_bound`             | Field type or `geo_lower` 
| all primitives or `variant`                   | Lower bound stored as the 
field's type, or `geo_lower` for geo types |
+| _optional_  | 2      | `upper_bound`             | Field type or `geo_upper` 
| all primitives or `variant`                   | Upper bound stored as the 
field's type, or `geo_upper` for geo types |
+| _optional_  | 3      | `tight_bounds`            | `boolean`                 
| all except `geometry`, `geography`, `variant` | When true, `lower_bound` and 
`upper_bound` must be equal to the min and max values |
+| _optional_  | 4      | `value_count`             | `long`                    
| all                                           | Number of values in the 
column (including null and NaN values) |
+| _optional_  | 5      | `null_value_count`        | `long`                    
| optional fields                               | Number of null values in the 
column |
+| _optional_  | 6      | `nan_value_count`         | `long`                    
| `float`, `double`                             | Number of NaN values in the 
column |
+| _optional_  | 7      | `avg_value_size_in_bytes` | `int`                     
| `string`, `binary`, `variant`                 | Avg value size (uncompressed) 
in bytes to estimate memory consumption |
+
+For example, stats for a `required` `int` field named `id` with field-id `2` 
are stored using:
+
+```
+10_400: optional struct id (default null) {
+  10_401: optional int lower_bound; // type matches the field type (int)
+  10_402: optional int upper_bound; // type matches the field type (int)
+  10_403: optional boolean tight_bounds;
+  10_404: optional long value_count;
+
+  // null_value_count is only used for optional fields
+  // nan_value_count is only used for float and double
+  // avg_value_size_in_bytes is only used for variable length types
+}
+```
+
+If any field is missing from the struct, readers must assume that it is 
unknown.
+
+Lower and upper bounds for `geometry` and `geography` columns are XYZM points 
that define a bounding box, stored in `geo_lower` and `geo_upper` structs (see 
[Bounds for Geometry and Geography](#bounds-for-geometry-and-geography). IDs 
used by geo structs are assigned using offsets in the table field's stats ID 
range.
+
+The `geo_lower` struct is defined as:
+
+| Requirement | Offset | Name | Type     | Description |
+|-------------|--------|------|----------|-------------|
+| _required_  | 10     | `x`  | `double` | Bounding box westernmost/xmin; 
[-180..180] |
+| _required_  | 11     | `y`  | `double` | Bounding box southernmost/ymin; 
[-90..90] |
+| _optional_  | 12     | `z`  | `double` | Bounding box zmin |
+| _optional_  | 13     | `m`  | `double` | Bounding box mmin |
+
+The `geo_upper` struct is defined as:
+
+| Requirement | Offset | Name | Type     | Description |
+|-------------|--------|------|----------|-------------|
+| _required_  | 14     | `x`  | `double` | Bounding box eastermost/xmax; 
[-180..180] |
+| _required_  | 15     | `y`  | `double` | Bounding box northernmost/ymax; 
[-90..90] |
+| _optional_  | 16     | `z`  | `double` | Bounding box zmax |
+| _optional_  | 17     | `m`  | `double` | Bounding box mmax |
+
+For `variant`, both bounds are unshredded `variant` that store variant field 
bounds by normalized JSON paths as field names. See [Bounds for 
Variant](#bounds-for-variant) for details on producing these bounds.
+
+###### Content Stats in Manifests
+
+Manifest files are written using a specific `content_stats` struct type, 
determined by the writer and incorporated into the manifest schema. All 
field-level structs are optional fields in the `content_stats` struct.
+
+For example, stats for a table with a required int, `id`, and an optional 
string, `data`, are stored as:
+
+```
+146: optional struct content_stats {
+  // stats struct for table field 2: required int id
+  10_400: optional struct id (default null) {
+    10_401: optional int lower_bound;
+    10_402: optional int upper_bound;
+    10_403: optional boolean tight_bounds;
+    10_404: optional long value_count;
+  }
+
+  // stats struct for table field 3: optional string data
+  10_600: optional struct data (default null) {
+    10_601: optional string lower_bound;
+    10_602: optional string upper_bound;
+    10_603: optional boolean tight_bounds;
+    10_604: optional long value_count;
+    10_605: optional long null_value_count;
+    10_607: optional int avg_value_size_in_bytes;
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Implementations may produce stats structs for fields that are not in the table 
schema, if a field ID from the table's column ID space is assigned for the data 
values (by allocating an ID using `last-column-id`). Implementations are not 
required to write a stats struct for every table field.
+
+Fields with stats tracked in `content_stats` change based on updates like 
schema evolution or metrics configuration. Writers adapt to table changes by 
writing new manifest files with the implementation's current `content_stats` 
type. When existing file metadata is written to new manifests, writers must 
discard old stats, set unknown stats structs to null, and promote lower and 
upper bounds types to conform to the manifest schema.

Review Comment:
   yeah. those can probably be more clear. "discard old stats" wasn't 
immediately clear to me. I got it after you mentioned it 



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