emkornfield commented on pull request #9504: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9504#issuecomment-781055810
> Quoting by default ensures that we can distinguish missing values and empty strings, I suppose? Yes, although, we could use this convention for only nulls. Always quoting also helps maintain data types. For instance all number in a string column would be maintained round-trip. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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
