ou have a link to the specification for the binary protocol for
>>>>> the database you are using (or some other documentation)?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Wes
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:47 AM, Eli h5r...@protonmail.ch wrote:
>>>&g
;>>On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:47 AM, Eli h5r...@protonmail.ch wrote:
>>>>>Hey Wes,
>>>>> The database in question accepts columnar chunks of "regular" binary data
>>>>> over the network, one of the sources of which is parquet.
>>>&
r the network, one of the sources of which is parquet.
>>>> Thus, data only comes out of parquet on my side, and I was wondering how
>>>> to get it out as "regular" binary columns. Something like tobytes() for an
>>>> Arrow Column, or maybe read_asbyte
the sources of which is parquet.
>>>Thus, data only comes out of parquet on my side, and I was wondering how to
>>>get it out as "regular" binary columns. Something like tobytes() for an
>>>Arrow Column, or maybe read_asbytes() for pa itself. The purpose is
pa itself. The purpose is to get to
>>standard binary columns as fast as possible.
>>Thanks,
>> Eli
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>>> Subject: Re: How to get "standard" binary columns out of a pyarrow table
>>> L
for pa itself. The purpose is to get to
> standard binary columns as fast as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Eli
>
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>> -------- Original Message
>> Subject: Re: How to get "standard" binary
bytes() for an Arrow
Column, or maybe read_asbytes() for pa itself. The purpose is to get to
standard binary columns as fast as possible.
Thanks,
Eli
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hi Eli,
I'm wondering what kind of API you would want, if the perfect one
existed. If I understand correctly, you are embedding objects in a
BYTE_ARRAY column in Parquet, and need to do some post-processing as
the data goes in / comes out of Parquet?
Thanks,
Wes
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 8:37 AM, E
Hi,
I'm looking to send "regular" columnar binary data to a database, the kind that
gets created by struct.pack, array.array, numpy.tobytes or str.encode.
The origin is parquet files, which I'm reading ever so comfortably via PyArrow.
I do however need to deserialize to Python objcets, currentl