Re: [DISCUSS] Drop Java 8 support

2024-05-04 Thread martin . traverse
Hi, We were originally expecting to keep Java 11 to the 2026 EOL date for extended support, but now that date is moved to 2032 which feels like more time than we need. The issue for us is that getting technology approved for use in an enterprise can have ridiculously long lead times, so having

Re: [DISCUSS] Drop Java 8 support

2024-04-30 Thread martin . traverse
Speaking for my own product we would like to see Java 11 support, we rely heavily on Arrow and have Java 11 as our minimum supported version. We’d like to keep doing that if possible. Our clients are big enterprises with notoriously sluggish update cycles, so we want to offer maximum

RE: row counts in footer of IPC file format

2023-03-28 Thread Martin Traverse
+1 from me, we would definitely like this feature. Anything like recordBatchNumRows, recordBatchRowCounts etc. seems clear naming-wise that it is talking about rows not bytes. The RecordBatchStatistics idea would also be fine for us although we don’t have immediate need for other statistics.