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The parquet reader automatically uses an embedded arrow schema to hint type inference for decode. In particular if the hinted type is compatible with the underlying parquet type, it performs a cast.

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In situations where the writer was not an arrow writer this schema is not available, and therefore the arrow types are inferred from the parquet schema. This is not always desirable:

• Coerce parquet int96 timestamps to microsecond precision #5655
• Account for Timezone when Casting Timestamp to Date32 #5605 (comment)

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