Le 07/04/2020 à 19:39, Wes McKinney a écrit : > > Re-orienting the discussion on something more concrete, suppose that an > ArrowArray is used to convey a result set from a database query, and > suppose that the resources associated with each column in the result set > are independent of the other columns. Should it not be possible to select a > subset of the columns and release the resources of the columns that are not > needed?
Perhaps. Though you should probably write the query so as to only select those columns in the first place ("SELECT *" is a well-known anti-pattern). That said, if there's a real need, I'm open to relaxing the specification a bit, such that you may move one or several children before immediately releasing the parent... Regards Antoine.