One possibility is adding type annotations sort of in the style of the
Parquet format. So these would run parallel to the types in
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L194
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Jacques Nadeau wrote:
> I think we should consider at introducing
I think we should consider at introducing these "business" types
differently. Same could be said for a US zipcode type, for example.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
> hi Uwe,
>
> This seems like a good idea to me given the widespread use of UUIDs,
> and would make use more n
hi Uwe,
This seems like a good idea to me given the widespread use of UUIDs,
and would make use more natural for application developers.
- Wes
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Uwe L. Korn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2152 to start the
> discuss
Hello,
I just opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2152 to start the
discussion about adding a UUID type to the Arrow format specification. In its
essence a UUID is simply a 128bit array but there are often special classes
used for it, e.g. java.util.UUID in Java and uuid.UUID in
