Fokko commented on issue #15058: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15058#issuecomment-1687861131
@pitrou That's true, for PyIceberg it is about maintaining the type information. We have converters to go from and to Iceberg ⇔ PyArrow schemas. Going from Iceberg an Iceberg UUID to a `fixed[16]` in Arrow works, but we can not go back. > (in general, people seem to think that UUID gives them something better than pure random strings, for whatever cargo-culted reason) We'll you want to avoid utf8 if not needed. In Iceberg the UUID is also often used to apply bucket partitioning, which works well on fixed 16 bytes. -- 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: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
