Emit and Read min/max statistics for int96 timestamp columns
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Description
### Describe the enhancement requested
Parquet-java does not emit or read stats for int96 timestamp columns. Since int96 is used as the default timestamp in spark, this limits a lot of optimization opportunities. Engines like [Photon](https://www.databricks.com/product/photon) populate the statistics for the int96 timestamps correctly. So parquet-java coud also emit the statistics, and also allow reading these statistics from known good writers.
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Research direction
Start by tracing parquet-java's existing statistics handling for timestamp columns and compare the expected int96 min/max representation with the behavior of known-good writers such as Photon. The work is done when parquet-java emits and reads correct min/max statistics for int96 timestamp columns, with coverage for both paths.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100