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[Xuwei Fu](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2249?#comment-17691257) / @mapleFU: I guess maybe we can take a look at: 1. 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1222

[Jan Finis](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2249?#comment-17691525) / @jfinis: @wgtmac my proposal would be backward compatible. It would only add optional fields, so that legacy readers not implementing the logic could still read the file...

[Gang Wu](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2249?#comment-17691626) / @wgtmac: @jfinis Yes, please submit a PR when you are ready. Thanks.

[Jan Finis](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2249?#comment-17703624) / @jfinis: @wgtmac @mapleFU I have created the pull request. Have a look at it :). Should I advertise the pull request somewhere else?

[Gang Wu](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2317?#comment-17736822) / @wgtmac: The Util class defined in parquet-format has been deprecated. https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/Util.java#L56 Should we delete it in the next release? @gszadovszky @ggershinsky

[Gabor Szadovszky](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2317?#comment-17736990) / @gszadovszky: @wgtmac, Let me summarize the history of this. parquet-format contains all the specification docs and the parquet.thrift itself which is a kind of source code and...

[Gabor Szadovszky](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2080?#comment-17414053) / @gszadovszky: @ggershinsky, however the original topic of this jira is invalid we still need to add proper comments to `RowGroup.file_offset` describing the situation of PARQUET-2078 and helping...

[Gidon Gershinsky](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2080?#comment-17414075) / @ggershinsky: @gszadovszky  yes, I'll take it. There might be a different solution (also format-related) that bypasses the need to calculate such parameter in any implementation, so it...

[Gidon Gershinsky](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2080?#comment-17421193) / @ggershinsky: Hi @gszadovszky , I've prepared a short writeup on this alternative solution, with a discussion of the tradeoffs. After writing it, my feeling is that the...

[Gabor Szadovszky](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2080?#comment-17421270) / @gszadovszky: @ggershinsky, could you make the doc available for comments?