Proposal: Add unsafe
option to disable UTF8 validation on parquet read
#6701
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enhancement
Any new improvement worthy of a entry in the changelog
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.
It is a pretty common usecase for systems (e.g. InfluxDB 3.0) to ingest data and write it as parquet files and then only ready parquet files that we wrote (and this are well formed)
Doing utf8 validation in the parquet reader take a significant amount of time for string data, likely leading to proposals to improve it like
However if the usecase is to speed up parquet data that is "trusted" maybe validating at all is unecessary.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add an
unsafe
parquet API to disable UTF8 validation during read for usersDescribe alternatives you've considered
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