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Proposal: Add unsafe option to disable UTF8 validation on parquet read #6701

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

It is a pretty common usecase for systems (e.g. InfluxDB 3.0) to ingest data and write it as parquet files and then only ready parquet files that we wrote (and this are well formed)

Doing utf8 validation in the parquet reader take a significant amount of time for string data, likely leading to proposals to improve it like

However if the usecase is to speed up parquet data that is "trusted" maybe validating at all is unecessary.

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Add an unsafe parquet API to disable UTF8 validation during read for users

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