I don't think anything actually uses Record counts at the moment, but if you
include them they should be correct. In general we allow any metric to also be
empty which is treated as "unknown". This looks like what we currently do with
Avro
When we import Avro files in spark we skip doing any fi
I understand the part about the file sizes. The file size information can
be used to read the Parquet/ORC footers assuming the file size in the
manifest files.
My question is specific to record counts in these files. Are these expected
to be accurate as well?
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:53 PM wrote
Iceberg stores this information and other footer and file level details in
manifests for just such a use case. The goal is always to read the files once
and then save metrics and statistics in the manifest so they do not need be
read again.
If the value is not accurate there is a bug in Iceber