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Unused field in InternalParquetRecordWriter Class

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by opening the org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter class and inspect the rowGroupSize field and its references. Done means the unused field is removed without affecting the class; run the relevant Core and Protobuf tests to confirm the change.

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Description

Type: enhancement
Describe the enhancement requested

I have noticed that in the org.apache.parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter class, there is a field named private final long rowGroupSize that is initialized but never used within the class.

Component(s)

Core, Protobuf

Dominant language
Java
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