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Julien Le Dem commented on ARROW-258: ------------------------------------- specifically, this is about cleaning up the shared definitions in Message.fbs (metadata) currently the Buffer type defined there seems specific to shared memory for IPC. So we should either: - restrict it to types that are reusable across IPC, RPC and Files (possibly other channels) - clarify how we do various channels (IPC/RPC/Files) with that Buffer type. There is a related jira (ARROW-249) for RPC where specific discussion about RPC should go (opening connections, etc). > clarify definition of Buffer in context of RPC, IPC, File > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-258 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-258 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Format > Reporter: Julien Le Dem > > currently Buffer has a loosely defined page field used for shared memory only. > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/34e7f48cb71428c4d78cf00d8fdf0045532d6607/format/Message.fbs#L109 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)