westonpace commented on code in PR #37000:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/37000#discussion_r1282467359
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docs/source/format/CDataInterface.rst:
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@@ -218,6 +218,16 @@ names and types of child fields are read from the child
arrays.
| ``+us:I,J,...`` | sparse union with type ids I,J... |
|
+------------------------+---------------------------------------------------+------------+
+Types that are encoded in an alternative layout have format strings ending
with ``>``
+followed by a character describing the alternative layout. For example, an
int32 column
+encoded in the stringy-view layout would have the format string ``I>~``.
Review Comment:
This approach could potentially be used in places like RLE as well where
data can
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