That said, the protocol data produced now by `RecordBatchStreamWriter`
should be readable in 1.0.0 and beyond. `pyarrow.serialize` is only
intended for transient storage. We should add some language to the
docstring for this function to explain that it is distinct from the
Arrow IPC format (which h
Hi Yevgeni,
I don't think we have ever promised binary stability of the
pyarrow.serialize() protocol. Binary compatibility starting from 1.0.0
is about the Arrow in-memory format and the Arrow IPC format (i.e. how
Arrow arrays, tables... are laid out and how their metadata is encoded
on the wir
In our system we are using arrow serialization as it showed excellent
deserialization speed. However, seems that we made a mistake by persisting
the streams into a long-term storage as the serialized data appears to be
incompatible between versions. According to the release notes of 0.14.0 it
appea
