Attendees: - Ian Cook - Raúl Cumplido - Dewey Dunnington - James Duong - Ian Joiner - Will Jones - Jonathan Keane - David Li - Rok Mihevc - Niranda Perera - Antoine Pitrou - Gavin Ray - Kae Suarez - Matt Topol - Brent Gardner - Dalton Modlin
Discussion: Proposal to switch to C++ 17 as the baseline supported version [1] - The vote has passed [2] - Antoine is working to diagnose and solve test failures [3] Proposed rules for registering canonical extension types [4] - The vote has passed [5] with the change that names will start with "arrow." not "org.apache.arrow." - Next step is a PR with docs updates Status of JDBC driver for Arrow Flight SQL [6] - James and David are working to get tests to pass Suggestion for Arrow to add a fraction type - AKA rational numbers, like what Julia has [7] - Enables exact ratios to be represented as integers divided by integers - Ian Joiner intends to start a Jira or ML discussion about this Proposed support for float16 in Arrow and Parquet - AKA half-precision - There is a new discussion [8] and PR [9] proposing support in Parquet - There is a new discussion about support in Arrow [10] - There was some discussion about whether and how Arrow could use an off-spec way of reading and writing float16 columns in Parquet files Proposal for Flight SQL to support Substrait - Discussion about this started a while ago [11] and there is a PR open with discussion [12] - David has opened a vote about this plus two other proposed extensions to Flight SQL [13] Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) - Discussion about how we should handle ADBC in terms of the Arrow specification; for example should the C header files [14] and Java interfaces be made a part of the Arrow specification like we did with the C data interface [15] - Depending on this discussion, David will start a vote to decide whether to do this - For more context/background about ADBC, see the recent Voltron Data blog post [16] [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/9g14n3odhj6kzsgjxr6k6d3q73hg2njr [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/dod96gbqtfz7pf096vhlczq6f5hv81z8 [3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13991 [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread/sxd5fhc42hb6svs79t3fd79gkqj83pfh [5] https://lists.apache.org/thread/dzognw3o1ozvyn65d9gf8t2r3g8qc7sc [6] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13800 [7] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/complex-and-rational-numbers/#Rational-Numbers [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread/03vmcj7ygwvsbno764vd1hr954p62zr5 [9] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/184 [10] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17464 [11] https://lists.apache.org/thread/ldtlrqzs4qmv7vm64j3g97q5fhzfo9hf [12] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13492 [13] https://lists.apache.org/thread/3k3np6314dwb0n7n1hrfwony5fcy7kzl [14] https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc/blob/main/adbc.h [15] https://lists.apache.org/thread/rxxgdrfph95zn3clg76posjw2vchclb5 [16] https://voltrondata.com/news/simplifying-database-connectivity-with-arrow-flight-sql-and-adbc/ On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 4:38 PM Ian Cook <i...@ursacomputing.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Our biweekly sync call is tomorrow at 12:00 noon Eastern time. > > The Zoom meeting URL for this and other biweekly Arrow sync calls is: > https://zoom.us/j/87649033008?pwd=SitsRHluQStlREM0TjJVYkRibVZsUT09 > > Alternatively, enter this information into the Zoom website or app to > join the call: > Meeting ID: 876 4903 3008 > Passcode: 958092 > > Thanks, > Ian
