Hi Ben,
Le 27/09/2023 à 23:25, Benjamin Kietzman a écrit :
@Antoine
What this PR is creating is an "unofficial" Arrow format, with data
types exposed in Arrow C++ that are not part of the Arrow standard, but
are exposed as if they were.
We already do this in every implementation of the arrow format I'm
aware of: it's more convenient to consider dictionary as a data type
even though the spec says that it is a field property.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Dictionary encoding is part of the
Arrow spec, and considering it as a data type is an API choice that does
not violate the spec.
Raw pointers in string views is just not an Arrow format.
Regards
Antoine.
