For what it is worth, in the Rust Arrow community, I have only ever heard the format referred to as "IPC Format" , we haven't used the term Feather that I know of.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:41 PM David Li <lidav...@apache.org> wrote: > FeatherV2 is the same thing as the IPC file format ( > https://arrow.apache.org/faq/). This confusion keeps coming up, so: how > do we want to brand Arrow IPC? As "Feather", or as "Arrow IPC Files"? It > seems the latter, but even right now Arrow Dataset still writes files with > .feather extension (though there are PRs to update it). I don't think I've > seen a formal discussion/decision on whether to keep using Feather or IPC > as the name (though I likely missed it). > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, at 12:21, Andrew Lamb wrote: > > I am not familiar with feather -- there are some Draft PRs to add support > > for reading [1] and writing [2] the IPC file format which may be related > to > > your question > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1858 > > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1893 > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:10 PM Ian Joiner <iajoiner...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to ask about the level of Feather support in Datafusion. Can we > >> read and write Feather files? I don't really find any information while > >> searching through the repo or checking the docs. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Ian > >> >
