Fokko Driesprong

@aokolnychyi This is about the Iceberg metadata, not about the Datafiles itself. It might also be interesting for the Datafiles, but then we should analyze the access patterns first.

@aokolnychyi Hmm, I did some quick checks and that seems to be correct. I'm pretty sure that it was using the code because I was seeing exceptions and differences in...

Yes, this is still top of mind! I'm going to see what's needed and make sure that it will be included in the next Avro release!

Here we go: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2874

Makes sense. I think it would be good to remove `OriginalType` at some point. Let's target this PR for 2.0 and leave it for now. I'll create another PR to...

@steveloughran Can you fix the compatibility issue? ``` Error: Failed to execute goal com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin:0.18.2:cmp (default) on project parquet-hadoop: There is at least one incompatibility: org.apache.parquet.hadoop.util.vectorio.BindingUtils.raiseInnerCause(java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException):CLASS_GENERIC_TEMPLATE_CHANGED -> [Help 1] ```

@dependabot rebase

@dependabot rebase

Unfortunately, we cannot change public static methods, since other projects might be using them. If we want this we first need to deprecate the old values.

I'll fix the UT's later today