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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# Tests for statistics in parquet files
+
+# by default, datafusion writes statistics into parquet files
+# and reads them back
+query I
+COPY (values (1), (2), (3))
+TO 'test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/0.parquet'
+STORED AS PARQUET;
+----
+3
+
+query I
+COPY (values (3), (4))
+TO 'test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/1.parquet'
+STORED AS PARQUET;
+----
+2
+
+statement ok
+CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test_table
+STORED AS PARQUET
+LOCATION 'test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table';
+
+statement ok
+set datafusion.explain.physical_plan_only = true;
+
+statement ok
+set datafusion.explain.show_statistics = true;
+
+# By default, the statistics are gathered
+query TT
+EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM test_table WHERE column1 = 1;
+----
+physical_plan
+01)CoalesceBatchesExec: target_batch_size=8192, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+02)--FilterExec: column1@0 = 1, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]: Min=Exact(Int64(1)) Max=Exact(Int64(1)))]]
+03)----RepartitionExec: partitioning=RoundRobinBatch(4), input_partitions=2, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+04)------DataSourceExec: file_groups={2 groups: [[WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/0.parquet], [WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/1.parquet]]}, projection=[column1], file_type=parquet, predicate=column1@0 = 1, pruning_predicate=column1_null_count@2 != row_count@3 AND column1_min@0 <= 1 AND 1 <= column1_max@1, required_guarantees=[column1 in (1)]
+05), statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+
+# When the setting is true, the statistics are gathered
+statement ok
+set datafusion.execution.collect_statistics = true;
+
+query TT
+EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM test_table WHERE column1 = 1;
+----
+physical_plan
+01)CoalesceBatchesExec: target_batch_size=8192, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+02)--FilterExec: column1@0 = 1, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]: Min=Exact(Int64(1)) Max=Exact(Int64(1)))]]
+03)----RepartitionExec: partitioning=RoundRobinBatch(4), input_partitions=2, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+04)------DataSourceExec: file_groups={2 groups: [[WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/0.parquet], [WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/1.parquet]]}, projection=[column1], file_type=parquet, predicate=column1@0 = 1, pruning_predicate=column1_null_count@2 != row_count@3 AND column1_min@0 <= 1 AND 1 <= column1_max@1, required_guarantees=[column1 in (1)]
+05), statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+
+
+# When the setting is true, the statistics are NOT gathered
+statement ok
+set datafusion.execution.collect_statistics = false;
+
+query TT
+EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM test_table WHERE column1 = 1;
+----
+physical_plan
+01)CoalesceBatchesExec: target_batch_size=8192, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+02)--FilterExec: column1@0 = 1, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]: Min=Exact(Int64(1)) Max=Exact(Int64(1)))]]
+03)----RepartitionExec: partitioning=RoundRobinBatch(4), input_partitions=2, statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+04)------DataSourceExec: file_groups={2 groups: [[WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/0.parquet], [WORKSPACE_ROOT/datafusion/sqllogictest/test_files/scratch/parquet_statistics/test_table/1.parquet]]}, projection=[column1], file_type=parquet, predicate=column1@0 = 1, pruning_predicate=column1_null_count@2 != row_count@3 AND column1_min@0 <= 1 AND 1 <= column1_max@1, required_guarantees=[column1 in (1)]
+05), statistics=[Rows=Absent, Bytes=Absent, [(Col[0]:)]]
+
+# cleanup
+statement ok
+DROP TABLE test_table;