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Python: Infer Iceberg schema from the Parquet file #6997
Python: Infer Iceberg schema from the Parquet file #6997
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Do we need to check time or timestamp precision?
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@Fokko, I think this could be a problem. We should make sure there are good tests for these types.
The read code operates using PyIceberg schemas. So that is going to convert PyArrow to PyIceberg, prune columns, and the convert back to request a projection from PyArrow. If there is a lossy conversion then that will cause a problem. For example if a time type is in millis but is converted without that information, then the requested type will be a timestamp in micros and that may cause a problem.
When looking at this, I found another problem. Rather than requesting a specific schema, the projected Iceberg schema is used to request top-level columns:
I assume that's going to read full nested structures because the only information it has is the top-level column name. If that happens, I'm concerned that we're reading leaf columns that we don't actually need to. I think projection will correctly ignore them, but it would be nice to avoid reading them.
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Good point, I think we should have round-trip tests here, where we go from Iceberg to PyArrow, and back to Iceberg.
I agree, I'm would have to look into the details if we prune the fields of the nested fields properly. In the future I'd like to replace this with the custom evolution strategy: apache/arrow#33972 (comment)
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Thank you for your explanation. I refactored the code to make it consistent with the primitive conversion in iceberg to pyarrow conversion. Currently, It only allow UTC as timezone and us as unit.
I also added some round trip tests for these types
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This still seems suspicious to me. While it's now correct, how does PyArrow read Python files that have other time or timestamp representations?
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Thank you for your review and for bringing up your concerns. I'd like to understand better what you find suspicious about PyArrow's ability to read Python files with different time or timestamp representations.
From what I understand, Iceberg's TimeType, TimestampType, and TimestampzType require
us
andUTC
, and my current conversion ensures that no data is lost.In this case, PyArrow can support reading non-UTC timezones and
s
,ms
, andus
precision, but it does not support nanosecond precision since the final requested type during projection will beus
andUTC
.:iceberg/python/pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py
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I chose to restrict the precision to
us
and the timezone toUTC
because the Iceberg specification requires all stored time/timestamp to be in this precision and timezone. Since thepyarrow_to_schema
visitor is used to read an Iceberg table's data file, I believe we should only supportus
andUTC
.However, I am also not very sure about it. Regarding support for other precision and timezone here, I think more discussion and modifications may be needed if we want to add other support. How about creating another PR if needed to address these concerns?
Thank you again for your feedback, and please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
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If there is an Iceberg schema in the file, I think we can assume that it is written according to the spec:
With the current check, it is correct:
We could even simplify it:
The tests are in place:
I think we can resolve this issue
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Should we create an issue for this, and still raise an exception?
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I created the issue: #7451.
But I am not sure if what is the proper way to raise exception in this case. Based on my understanding, name mapping is also needed if portion of parquet fields miss the field ids. However, in this case,
pyarrow_to_schema
can still generate a valid iceberg schema for the the rest of parquet fields. It seems we should not raise exception in this case.Should we only raise exception when no field id exist in the whole data file? I think we can also log some warning messages when a pyarrow field containing a field id. What do you think?