alamb commented on issue #16688:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/16688#issuecomment-3046580169

   I reread the format guide again, and I think the Arrow file format is an 
extension of the IPC (stream) format 
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#ipc-file-format
   
   It looks like the file format simply has a few extra header bytes and then a 
footer. Otherwise it is the same as the stream. format
   
   So we should be able to support both formats fairly straightforwardly
   
   It may be possible to simply use the 
[StreamReader](https://docs.rs/arrow-ipc/55.2.0/arrow_ipc/reader/struct.StreamReader.html)
 rather than the  
[`FileReader`](https://docs.rs/arrow-ipc/55.2.0/arrow_ipc/reader/struct.FileReader.html)
 in the underlying code for `ArrowFormatFactory` 
   
https://github.com/apache/datafusion/blob/2741c60ad9d637e5014d201802abb25562449491/datafusion/core/src/datasource/file_format/arrow.rs#L110-L109
   
   


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