Le 03/10/2019 à 14:22, Wes McKinney a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 4:26 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: >> >> >> Yeah, I think the spec should be strict. And for convenience, I'd say >> it should probably be the padded length (though I don't have a strong >> opinion). > > The reason I'm against this is that it makes it impossible for a > producer to preserve the exact state of its buffers for a consumer. > > For example, if you have a 1-byte validity bitmap, and you do not have > the flexibility to indicate in the metadata that the length is either > 1 (unpadded) or 8 (padded), then the producer only will ever see 8 > bytes.
I see. Then we should mandate the non-padded length, IMHO. Regards Antoine.
