wesm commented on a change in pull request #7571: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7571#discussion_r447002951
########## File path: cpp/src/arrow/ipc/options.h ########## @@ -66,6 +67,10 @@ struct ARROW_EXPORT IpcWriteOptions { /// like compression bool use_threads = true; + /// \brief Format version to use for IPC messages and their + /// metadata. Presently using V4 version (readable by v0.8.0 and later). + MetadataVersion metadata_version = MetadataVersion::V4; Review comment: Yes. This is what I've been saying in the V4/V5 MetadataVersion discussion e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org