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Properly close buffers

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java
Domain
data-engineering

Research direction

Start by reading the discussion in Apache Parquet PR 3360, especially the referenced comment, and reproduce the lingering-buffer failure after updating Hadoop. Locate the buffer lifecycle involved in that failure; done means buffers are properly closed and the later Hadoop version no longer reports lingering buffers.

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Description

Type: enhancement
Describe the enhancement requested

As @pan3793 pointed out https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3360#issuecomment-3588399639, when updating to a later version of Hadoop, it starts failing with an error of lingering buffers.

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