There's two ways to limit the number of column-rows you have to read. One is by file partitioning, that is having many ZSV files rather than one giant one, ideally organized by partitioning key field(s). The other way is mentioned as an extension to the format itself which functions much like rowgroups do in Parquet. https://github.com/Hafthor/zsvutil?tab=readme-ov-file#row-gr...