rdblue commented on code in PR #7105: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/7105#discussion_r1224846377
########## format/spec.md: ########## @@ -702,6 +703,44 @@ Blob metadata is a struct with the following fields: | _optional_ | _optional_ | **`properties`** | `map<string, string>` | Additional properties associated with the statistic. Subset of Blob properties in the Puffin file. | +#### Partition statistics + +Partition statistics files are based on [Partition Statistics file spec](#partition-statistics-file). Partition statistics are informational. A reader can choose to +ignore partition statistics information. Partition statistics support is not required to read the table correctly. A table can contain +many partition statistics files associated with different table snapshots. +A writer can optionally write the partition statistics file during each write operation. If the statistics file is written for the specific snapshot, +It must be registered in the table metadata file to be considered as a valid statistics file for the reader. + +Partition statistics files metadata within `partition-statistics` table metadata field is a struct with the following fields: + +| v1 | v2 | Field name | Type | Description | +|----|----|------------|------|-------------| +| _required_ | _required_ | **`snapshot-id`** | `long` | ID of the Iceberg table's snapshot the partition statistics file is associated with. | +| _required_ | _required_ | **`statistics-file-path`** | `string` | Path of the partition statistics file. See [Partition Statistics file](#partition-statistics-file). | +| _required_ | _required_ | **`max-data-sequence-number`** | `long` | Maximum data sequence number of the Iceberg table's snapshot the partition statistics was computed from. | + +#### Partition Statistics file + +Statistics information for every partition value is stored as a row in the **table default format** +sorted based on the first partition column from `partition`. Review Comment: I think this should be more clear. There should be one and only one row per unique partition tuple. All partition tuples must be present, etc. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org
