Reuse sampled parquet footers from statistics collection

[Matt711]

Description

Closes #23853

Micro-optimization that resues the footers we fetch for statistics for metadata prefetching we do afterwards.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved Parquet metadata handling when only some dataset files are sampled.
  • Reuses available metadata and avoids refetching information for files already processed.
  • Preserves sampled metadata across scans, improving consistency and scan efficiency.
  • Handles scans with no required columns while retaining available file metadata.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for skipping previously cached files during metadata prefetching.
  • Updated validation to ensure partially sampled metadata is retained correctly.

Walkthrough

Parquet statistics collection now retains sampled footer metadata for partial datasets. ParquetSourceInfo.from_paths forwards cached entries, including early-return cases. Metadata prefetch skips paths with cached footers. Tests cover partial sampling and empty column selection.

Changes

Parquet footer reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache and propagate sampled metadata python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/io.py	ParquetMetadata stores footer metadata for sampled paths. ParquetSourceInfo.from_paths forwards the cached entries consistently.
Validate cached-path prefetch behavior python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_stats.py, python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_scan.py	Tests verify partial footer retention, empty-column handling, fixture initialization, and prefetch of only uncached paths.

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This localized parquet footer-reuse optimization has no supplied correctness, security, availability, or deployment risk, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 15.38% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: reusing sampled Parquet footers from statistics collection.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the footer reuse optimization and references the linked issue.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #23853 by caching sampled Parquet footers consistently and skipping their refetch during metadata prefetching. Regression tests cover partial sampling, empty column selection…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are directly related to the linked performance objective. The implementation updates Parquet footer caching, and the added tests validate the intended behavior.

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Explanation

The changes satisfy issue #23853 by caching sampled Parquet footers consistently and skipping their refetch during metadata prefetching. Regression tests cover partial sampling, empty column selection, and cached-path skipping.

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In `@python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/io.py`:
- Around line 1083-1089: In the ParquetMetadata construction flow, copy
metadata.cached_parquet_info immediately after creating the ParquetMetadata
object and pass that cache through both the early return for empty needed_cols
or zero row_count and the normal return. Add regression tests covering empty
needed_cols and empty Parquet datasets, plus the requested unit benchmark
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