[Parquet] pq.write_table fails with OSError: Lz4 compression failure.
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Description
### Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.
I encountered a table with where pq.write_table throws compression error:
```
pq.write_table(table, "foo", compression='lz4')
*** OSError: Lz4 compression failure.
```
using compression='gzip' works.
The minimal table I was able to find contains 42 rows with a single columns of strings. Each string is 30-60 mb.
The strings in the table are xml and can be compressed to ~100mb in total.
I can share the table, but would like to not do it publicly.
Python 3.12.3
pyarrow 23.0.1
lz4 4.4.5
ubuntu 24.04
### Component(s)
Parquet
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the reported 42-row, single-string-column case with Python's pq.write_table using compression='lz4', then compare it with compression='gzip'. The issue is resolved when the Lz4 compression failure is diagnosed and the affected write path behaves correctly for these large XML strings, with coverage for the reported case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Bug
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