alamb commented on issue #8070: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8070#issuecomment-3163937591
> I recognize there may have been a good reason that this was not implemented before and I just do not know about it. I've created a draft PR to demonstrate what I think could be done about it and would love feedback from the maintainers when convenient. I think the current metadata reading strategy is somewhat complicated (aka I don't think the API was carefully thought out -- mostly it was implemented to preserve the existing behavior The idea of reading when desired but not required sounds like a good idea to me. I'll try and look at the PR shortly -- 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