Wes McKinney created ARROW-8338:
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Summary: [Format] Clarify whether 0-length variable offsets
buffers are permissible for 0-length arrays in the IPC protocol
Key: ARROW-8338
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8338
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Documentation, Format
Reporter: Wes McKinney
This aspect of the columnar format / IPC protocol remains slightly unclear. As
written, it would suggest that an offsets buffer of length 1 containing a
single value 0 is required. It may be better to allow this to be length zero
(corresponding to a 0-size or null buffer in the implementation)
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