Le 26/07/2019 à 07:27, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > I started PR https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4951 to capture the > proposed change. > > I would like to verify that with this change all alignment issues are > solved. > > It seems like there is mostly consensus on having another minor release to > get this resolved.
You mean 0.15.0, right? > I think the open questions I have: > 1. Do we want to provide backwards compatibility for writers? IMHO, yes. How many APIs would we have to add a flag to? Or do we need a more general "provide_compatibility_with_version" option on writers, for future format changes? > 2. Similar to the file format, should there be some leading "magic" > indicator in the stream format to indicate a version, so we can do > something a little less ugly if we encounter more issues? At least a version number. Perhaps also a magic number, I don't know. Regards Antoine.
