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[GH-533] Mark ALP as in Preview - #604

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@alamb alamb commented Aug 1, 2026

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Rationale for this change

We recently approved and merged the new ALP encoding into parquet-format

However, as @divjotarora points out on the mailing list

We do not yet have a good way to communicate downstream in the ecosystem how widely supported it is, and when writers could feel safe enabling ALP encoding

Thus I think we should communicate this more clearly

What changes are included in this PR?

  1. Add an annotation to ALP saying it is in "preview"
  2. Define inline what "preview" means

Note 1: There is a different ongoing discussion to formalize the notion of "preview" and versioning in Parquet. If this is approved / agreed, I think we would move the definition of preview elsewhere

Note 2: @divjotarora I think has proposed an alternative of reverting the ALP encoding from parquet-format until we have finalized the above versioning discussion.

Do these changes have PoC implementations?

No

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alamb commented Aug 18, 2026

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Thank you everyone for your comments

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