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AI-generatedDuckDB to Apache Parquet round-trip type fidelity for TIMESTAMPTZ and INTERVAL
Goal Determine whether DuckDB preserves TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and INTERVAL columns through a write-to-Parquet then read-from-Parquet cycle without changing the SQL type or losing values. Constraints DuckDB offers read_parquet() and COPY ... TO ... (FORMAT PARQUET), but INTERVAL and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE lack an exact Parquet primitive. They may be writ