rok commented on code in PR #33925: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/33925#discussion_r1093367608
########## docs/source/format/CanonicalExtensions.rst: ########## @@ -72,4 +72,30 @@ same rules as laid out above, and provide backwards compatibility guarantees. Official List ============= -No canonical extension types have been standardized yet. +Fixed shape tensor +================== + +* Extension name: `arrow.fixed_shape_tensor`. + +* The storage type of the extension: ``FixedSizeList`` where: + + * **value_type** is the data type of individual tensors and + is an instance of ``pyarrow.DataType`` or ``pyarrow.Field``. + * **list_size** is the product of all the elements in tensor shape. + +* Extension type parameters: + + * **value_type** = Arrow DataType of the tensor elements + * **shape** = shape of the contained tensors as a tuple + * **is_row_major** = boolean indicating the order of elements Review Comment: > So you mean removing is_row_major as a parameter? Yes. We would just use the physical layout of the source and not change memory layout when going in and out of the extension. We would provide an option to store the layout as metadata. -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
