"ConvertedType" term is used by the parquet specification below. This type is used to map client data types to Parquet types. https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift#L48
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 1:30 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > Why "converted"? Is there a conversion? > > > Le 29/05/2019 à 08:46, Deepak Majeti a écrit : > > Hi Everyone, > > > > In the early days of parquet-cpp development, the developers mapped the > > thrift::ConvertedType to parquet::LogicalType. > > This now leads to confusion with the recent introduction of > > thrift::LogicalType. > > > > Parquet Rust also adopted this incorrect naming convention. > > > > Are there any objections to renaming the Parquet::LogicalType to > > Parquet::ConvertedType in both C++ and Rust? > > > -- regards, Deepak Majeti
