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Lawrence Chan updated ARROW-2296:
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    Component/s: C++

> Add num_rows to file footer
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>                 Key: ARROW-2296
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2296
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++, Format
>            Reporter: Lawrence Chan
>            Priority: Minor
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> Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I don't see something on the API surface 
> to get the number of rows in a arrow file without reading all the record 
> batches.
> I'd like to propose that we add `num_rows` as a field to the footer so it's 
> easy to query without reading the whole file.
> Meanwhile, before we get that added to the official format fbs, it would be 
> nice to haveĀ a method that iterates over the record batch headers and sums up 
> the lengths without reading the actual record batch body.



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