Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

GenericColumnReader::skip_records always calls to PageReader::peek_next_page. If the file doesn't have an OffsetIndex or this hasn't been loaded, this will result in an error.

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I would like some mechanism for GenericColumnReader to fallback to decoding the level data from the page and using this to skip decoding. This may require adding a PageReader::has_page_metadata() -> bool or something similar to detect this situation.

Not only would this avoid needing to know ahead of time if index information is available before pushing down RowFilter, etc... but would also allow these APIs to work even for files without a PageIndex - as just decoding the levels will still be significantly faster than also decoding the values

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FYI @Ted-Jiang