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When I was reading a parquet file into RecordBatches using ParquetFileArrowReader that had row groups that were 100,000 rows in length with a batch size of 60,000, after reading 300,000 rows successfully, I started seeing this error

 ParquetError("Parquet error: Not all children array length are the same!")

Upon investigation, I found that when reading with ParquetFileArrowReader, if the parquet input file has multiple row groups, and if a batch happens to end at the end of a row group for Int or Float, no subsequent row groups are read

Visually:

+-----+
| RG1 |
|     |
+-----+  <-- If a batch ends exactly at the end of this row group (page), RG2 is never read
+-----+
| RG2 |
|     |
+-----+

I traced the issue down to a bug in PrimitiveArrayReader where it mistakenly interprets reading 0 rows from a page reader as being at the end of the column.

This bug appears not to be present in the initial implementation #5378 -- FYI @andygrove and @liurenjie1024 (the test harness in this file is awesome, btw), but was introduced in #7140. I will do some more investigating to ensure the test case described in that ticket is handled


// NB can be 0 if at end of page
let records_read_once = self.record_reader.read_records(records_to_read)?;
if records_read_once == 0 {
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The case of 0 rows being read is handled in the if records_read_once < records_to-read clause below -- namely in this case the code needs to try and get the next page of data from the page reader.

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+1

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Both these tests fail without the changes in this PR.

I don't like the copy/paste nature of these tests and I plan a minor PR building on this one proposing how to remove the duplication and make the tests easier to read.

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LGTM

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alamb commented Aug 19, 2020

As the code that I removed in this PR added to support empty pages in 8a61570 (but it didn't seem to have any tests), I was worried that this deletion would cause some sort of reversion in behavior. To ensure it didn't, I added a test for empty pages in commit cfdea83

To try and ensure that the test covers the empty pages case, I and ran the new test on commit ed1f771 (the one right before 8a61570) and the test fails, thus leading me to conclude that the code removed in this PR is unnecessary and zero page parquet files are still supported.

Log of what I did:

Get commit right before support for empty pages:

alamb@MacBook-Pro rust % git checkout ed1f771dccdde623ce85e212eccb2b573185c461
git checkout ed1f771dccdde623ce85e212eccb2b573185c461
M	testing
Note: switching to 'ed1f771dccdde623ce85e212eccb2b573185c461'.
...
HEAD is now at ed1f771dc ARROW-8717: [CI][Packaging] Add build dependency on boost to homebrew

Apply new test for no pages:

alamb@MacBook-Pro rust % git cherry-pick cfdea8349a8f41229a4c8fb2cfddec3bb11df112
git cherry-pick cfdea8349a8f41229a4c8fb2cfddec3bb11df112
Auto-merging rust/parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs
[detached HEAD ab3bcdd8f] Add a test for reading empty pages
 Date: Wed Aug 19 10:16:31 2020 -0400
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Then I had to edit the test a little to use .len instead of .is_empty (which did not exist in the old commit):

diff --git a/rust/parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs b/rust/parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs
index d70619518..54c929c05 100644
--- a/rust/parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs
+++ b/rust/parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ mod tests {

         // expect no values to be read
         let array = array_reader.next_batch(50).unwrap();
-        assert!(array.is_empty());
+        assert!(array.len() == 0);
     }

     #[test]

And then I ran the test, and it fails:

cd arrow/rust/parquet && PARQUET_TEST_DATA=`pwd`/../../cpp/submodules/parquet-testing/data ARROW_TEST_DATA=`pwd`/../../testing/data cargo test
...
---- arrow::array_reader::tests::test_primitive_array_reader_empty_pages stdout ----
thread 'arrow::array_reader::tests::test_primitive_array_reader_empty_pages' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: General("Can\'t build array without pages!")', parquet/src/arrow/array_reader.rs:962:32
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

FYI @houqp and @paddyhoran

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@sunchao Could you review as well ?

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fn test_primitive_array_reader_empty_pages() {
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This is a test for the functionality added in 8a61570 / #7140

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sunchao commented Aug 19, 2020

@sunchao Could you review as well ?

Thanks for pinging! will do today.

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LGTM. Thanks @alamb .


// NB can be 0 if at end of page
let records_read_once = self.record_reader.read_records(records_to_read)?;
if records_read_once == 0 {
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@sunchao sunchao closed this in 25b0b1b Aug 20, 2020
andygrove pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2020
I added two test cases in #8007, which increased coverage. However, upon further review, I noticed the choice of parameters to hit edge conditions didn't cover the string data types.

Rather than adding a bunch more copies of basically the same test to add new parameters for different tests, I instead propose using the same set of parameters for all data types and drive the tests using a table in this PR.

It makes the test logic slightly harder to follow, in my opinion, but it does increase coverage

Closes #8009 from alamb/alamb/ARROW-9790-test-consolidation

Authored-by: alamb <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andy Grove <[email protected]>
@alamb alamb deleted the alamb/ARROW-9790-record-batch-boundaries branch October 26, 2020 20:05
alamb added a commit to apache/arrow-rs that referenced this pull request Apr 20, 2021
I added two test cases in apache/arrow#8007, which increased coverage. However, upon further review, I noticed the choice of parameters to hit edge conditions didn't cover the string data types.

Rather than adding a bunch more copies of basically the same test to add new parameters for different tests, I instead propose using the same set of parameters for all data types and drive the tests using a table in this PR.

It makes the test logic slightly harder to follow, in my opinion, but it does increase coverage

Closes #8009 from alamb/alamb/ARROW-9790-test-consolidation

Authored-by: alamb <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andy Grove <[email protected]>
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