BIT_PACKING is written by default when Definition or Repetition levels are empty
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Description
As discussed in https://github.com/apache/arrow/discussions/47113 , this package is writing the deprecated BIT_PACKING encoding to the column metadata and the DataPageHeader. This is only seems to happens when rep/def levels are empty. I think this is where it's happening:
```java
public class DevNullValuesWriter extends ValuesWriter {
....
public Encoding getEncoding() {
return BIT_PACKED;
}
}
```
Wouldn't it make sense to just return RLE?
I've seen this in parquet-java 1.15.1 and Overture Maps files using 1.13.1.
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Research direction
Start by locating DevNullValuesWriter and inspecting its getEncoding() implementation, then trace how that value reaches the column metadata and DataPageHeader. Confirm that empty repetition and definition levels no longer produce the deprecated BIT_PACKED encoding and instead use RLE.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 48/100