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@rok rok commented Apr 23, 2025

Closes #7320.

Rationale for this change

The Parquet format allows encrypting some or all column data while keeping footers in plaintext for compatibility with readers that don't support encryption. See spec.

Arrow-rs already supports reading plaintext footers and writing encrypted parquet files and should also support writing parquet files with plaintext footers.

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Are there any user-facing changes?

This now enables writing plaintext footers, while in current state attempting to write a plaintext footer would throw an error.

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