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Add new sort order for int96 timestamps

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java
Domain
data-engineering

Research direction

Start with the linked parquet-format proposal and inspect the repository's Core and Thrift components to find how sort orders are represented and generated. The work is complete when the proposed INT96_TIMESTAMP_ORDER is implemented consistently in those components and the relevant project checks pass.

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Description

Type: enhancement
Describe the enhancement requested

Implement the proposal in https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/584 to add a new INT96_TIMESTAMP_ORDER

Component(s)

Core, Thrift

Dominant language
Java
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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