sa- opened a new issue #10235: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/10235
Hey, I'm trying to implement the C Data Interface in Julia. A column of Strings looks like this in memory: <img width="388" alt="image" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1297369/116938172-9dddc600-ac6a-11eb-964d-8cb8ba4aa4dd.png";> There are 3 buffers. Correct me if I'm wrong but the first buffer is always the validity bitmap. How do I know which one is the offsets buffer and which one is the data buffer? https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/CDataInterface.html#c.ArrowArray.buffers this link doesn't specify which one comes first. And the [columnar format spec](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#variable-size-binary-layout) only says that there is an offsets and a data buffer, but doesn't necessarily say offsets is the 2nd buffer and data is the 3rd -- 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: [email protected]
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