yes! a buffer with size 0. I forgot to mention that the rest of the buffers in array_data have a non-zero size.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:12 PM Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is an "empty buffer" here? A buffer with size 0? > > > Le 17/12/2020 à 18:02, Niranda Perera a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if we need to consider the case of an empty buffer for > > ArrayData validity buffer. > > What happens when we create an ArrayData structure with buffers[0] = > > empty_buffer and null_count= -1? > > Shouldn't this infer null_count as 0 from this method? > > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/6c3547347e9d95f7d0c77d5949cb8fcf6983ca9b/cpp/src/arrow/array/data.cc#L50 > > > -- Niranda Perera @n1r44 <https://twitter.com/N1R44> +1 812 558 8884 / +94 71 554 8430 https://www.linkedin.com/in/niranda
