python - read multiple parquets that have different schema?
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Description
### Describe the usage question you have. Please include as many useful details as possible.
because of schema evolution some parquet files have more columns than others.
i try to read them all in one go (there are over 20000 small files under different partition folders) because i want to write out their data into a single big file
```
original_files = pq.ParquetDataset("bucket/folder", filesystem=s3_src, partitioning="hive")
```
i get error:
```
ValueError: Schema in partition[year=0, month=0, day=14, hour=9] bucket/folder/year=2023/month=02/day=22/hour=14/redact.snappy.parquet was different.
```
how can i achieve this in pyarrow?
pyspark has an automatic mergeSchema option - https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-data-sources-parquet.html#schema-merging
### Component(s)
Parquet, Python
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the pyarrow ParquetDataset entry point described in the issue and reproduce the schema mismatch with partitioned files. Compare the requested behavior with Spark's mergeSchema documentation; done means a supported way to read the dataset with differing schemas and write one combined file, covering the reported partition layout.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, spark
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100