Sure, but that’s utterly useless in practice because there is no way to handle that gracefully. To be clear: most software does handle it, because it detects t

Sure, but that’s utterly useless in practice because there is no way to handle that gracefully. To be clear: most software does handle it, because it detects this case and aborts. But to a user who is explicitly asking to read a parquet file without buffering the entire file into memory, there is no distinction between a server that cannot handle any range requests and a server that can occasionally handle range requests. Other than one being much, much more annoying.