alamb commented on PR #6983: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/6983#issuecomment-2591273695
> The Stream and File formats are actually different formats... See https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#ipc-file-format Yes, I am not sure if you are suggesting changes to this PR https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#ipc-file-format says: > IPC File Format > > We define a “file format” supporting random access that is an extension of the stream format. The file starts and ends with a magic string ARROW1 (plus padding). What follows in the file is identical to the stream format. At the end of the file, we write a footer containing a redundant copy of the schema (which is a part of the streaming format) plus memory offsets and sizes for each of the data blocks in the file. This enables random access to any record batch in the file. See [File.fbs](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/format/File.fbs) for the precise details of the file footer. -- 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
