GH-3372: Enhance ColumnSizeCommand to sort by size#3371
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- Support sorting by column sizes in the descending order. - Support printing ratio as percentage.
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@gszadovszky @Fokko Do you think this is useful for the community? At least this is useful for me to figure out dominating column in an easy way. |
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@wgtmac, any change that improves usability of parquet-cli are very welcomed.
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Rationale for this change
ColumnSizeCommand is a great tool to investigate column size. It would be good if we can sort it by column size to help spot the dominating columns.
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Are there any user-facing changes?
Yes. Two flags are added but are by default off.
Closes #3372