Re: [DISCUSS] Field reference ambiguity

2020-03-15 Thread Wes McKinney
It seems like there are two common patterns for projection from a record batch: * Selecting top-level fields by index * Selecting a collection of column paths. I'm on board with deprecating std::vector-based APIs since these are a special case of selecting a collection of column paths that

[DISCUSS] Field reference ambiguity

2020-03-13 Thread Francois Saint-Jacques
Hello, the recent dataset and compute work has forced us to think about schema projection. One problem that surfaced is referencing fields in nested schemas and/or schemas where duplicate column names exists. We currently have (C++) APIs that either pass a vector or a vector to represent fields