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Description

Refactors streaming scan tasks so parquet IO has one task shape.

  • Replaces the old SplitScan / FusedScan task classes with a generic ScanTask.
  • Renames StreamingScan.scans to StreamingScan.tasks to distinguish the scan operation from the per-chunk work items.
  • Uses ParquetScanTask(ScanTask) for all parquet-backed streaming scan tasks.
  • Moves parquet-specific task logic into ParquetScanTask, including split-file row bounds, row-group alignment, and hybrid-scan reads.
  • Keeps cached parquet footer metadata on the shared base Scan, rather than copying metadata onto individual tasks.

This is intended as an infrastructure cleanup for parquet streaming IO. It should not change runtime behavior.

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  • Non-parquet scans use the generic ScanTask path.
  • Non-split parquet tasks use split_index=0 and total_splits=1.
  • Follow-up work can build on ParquetScanTask for parquet-footer ordering extraction and broader hybrid-scan support.

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@Matt711 @TomAugspurger - For #22128, I need to get the row-group mapping for each scan task to extract Ordering metadata. I realized this would benefit from a formal row-group-aligned ParquetScanTask that would also benefit the hybrid-scan work. Let me know what you think.

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  • New Features

    • Improved Parquet streaming scans for complete, partial, aligned, and non-aligned row-group reads.
    • Added more consistent handling of hybrid and regular scan paths, including row limits, offsets, row indexes, and split or fused scans.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cached Parquet metadata is now resolved consistently across streaming scans.
    • Improved handling of sliced scans and scans with missing metadata.
  • Refactor

    • Unified Parquet scan task handling for more reliable streaming behavior and tracing.

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The streaming Parquet path wraps split and fused tasks in ParquetScanTask. Cached metadata attaches to base scans. Row-group bounds use shared logic. Streaming and actor-graph paths use StreamingScanTask. Tests cover aligned, partial, and sliced scans.

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Parquet scan task evaluation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Parquet task evaluation
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/io.py
SplitScan and FusedScan retain a base Scan. ParquetScanTask derives row-group slices and selects aligned, generic, or hybrid evaluation.
Cached metadata attachment
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/dsl/utils/io.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/io.py
Cached metadata attaches to each base_scan when all paths have metadata. The cached-metadata argument uses its position in Scan.do_evaluate.
Unified task wiring and validation
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/actor_graph/io.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/streaming/io.py, python/cudf_polars/tests/streaming/test_scan.py
Streaming and producer paths use StreamingScanTask. Tests cover wrapped tasks, row-group alignment, sliced scans, missing metadata, constructors, and task identity.

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This change unifies streaming Parquet scan tasks and cached metadata attachment while retaining fallback scan behavior. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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- Around line 752-754: Update ParquetScanTask.from_scan to return None when the
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We'll want to coordinate with any outstanding changes @Matt711 has.

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scans[i] = parquet_scan
converted = True

if converted:

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I don't love the mutation here. What's preventing us from creating these as ParquetScanTask in the first place, I think when we're creating the StreamingScan? Given that ParquetScanTask.from_scan takes just a scan, hopefully we have everything we need.

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The tricky part is that we cannot convert from SplitScan or FusedScan until we have footer metadata with the row-group indices. We could potentially attach this information "later", but that makes the contract much messier. I prefer a design where we know the ParquetScanTask (or whatever we want to call it) has row-group information available.

I'll try to think a way to avoid this mutation, but I'm not sure how to do it right now (we are already "mutating" things to attach the metadata).

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So the parquet FileMetadata is what we're missing when the StreamingScan is created? Gotcha. That does indeed seem unavoidable.

I agree that we should create some kind of placeholder ParquetScanTask lacking the information it needs to actually be usable (the row group indices).

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Yea, I'm experimenting with this idea now. Hopefully I can come up with something that feels cleaner that what I proposed here.

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Okay - I ended up falling down a bit of a rabbit hole and making ParquetScanTask the only task used for performing Parquet reads. The ParquetScanTask object still wraps a (simplified) Split/FusedScan object for now, but I may be able to avoid that as well.

I realize this is a much bigger change, but something like this may simplify our life in the future.

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We'll want to coordinate with any outstanding changes @Matt711 has.

I have a couple PRs open that have minor conflicts, but I'm keen to get this PR in first. Once this is in, and the multi-file hybrid scan python binings (see #22795). Once that's in I'll add the dispatch to multi-file hybrid scan for ParquetScanTask w/multiple sources (I'm basing it off of this PR now).

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for scan in node.scans:
for path in scan.paths:
for task in node.tasks:
for path in task.paths:

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lots of this diff is just renaming "scan(s)" to "task(s)" to clearly distinguish between the full-table Scan node and the individual Scan "tasks" used to generate each chunk.

if not cached:
continue
Scan._validate_cached_parquet_info(cached_paths, cached)
base_scan.cached_parquet_info = cached

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We keep the cache on the base_scan instead of creating a separate cache on each task. In the future, this may also allow us to avoid re-reading the same footer metadata on the same rank when it isn't already cached. However, I didn't add that optimization yet, because we would probably need some kind of locking mechanism on the cache (because we have concurrent producers on the rank).

@rjzamora rjzamora changed the title [WIP] Add ParquetScanTask for all parquet scan tasks Add ParquetScanTask for all parquet scan tasks Sep 8, 2026
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with pytest.raises(
AssertionError,
match=(r"Paths do not match cached parquet info."),
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Is there a new test that checks we raise in this case? I think this testing that we fail early when metadata is not prefetched

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n_rows: int


class ScanTask(IR):

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Should this still accept parquet_options?

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I was able to remove it from ScanTask, but it's worth noting that the base Scan.do_evaluate still expects a parquet_options argument for now.

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cached_parquet_info = task._fetch_parquet_info()

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It looks like we're fetching the parquet footers inside an IR.do_evaluate here. Is this a change from what happens on main? On of the design goals of prefetching was to not have any dynamic fetching of metadata in cudf-polars: everything was explicitly done ahead of time when prefetching was enabled, or implicitly done by libcudf when it was disabled.

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Yeah, this is a good detail to discuss. When we "pre-fetch" the metadata, it must be before do_evaluate is called.

However, once we are in do_evaluate, we must read the metadata to decide what bounds we are reading. On main, this is where we use plc.io.parquet_metadata.read_parquet_metadata to fetch this information. This PR is indeed changing the behavior so that we just fetch the metadata in a form where we can calculate the bounds and we can pass it into the libcudf read call. On main, we are essentially fetching the metadata twice whenever we don't have it prefetched (I think).

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