Re: Add a UUID type to the Arrow format

One possibility is adding type annotations sort of in the style of the Parquet format. So these would run parallel to the types in https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L194 On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Jacques Nadeau wrote: > I think we should

Re: Add a UUID type to the Arrow format

I think we should consider at introducing these "business" types differently. Same could be said for a US zipcode type, for example. On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Wes McKinney wrote: > hi Uwe, > > This seems like a good idea to me given the widespread use of UUIDs, > and

Re: Add a UUID type to the Arrow format

hi Uwe, This seems like a good idea to me given the widespread use of UUIDs, and would make use more natural for application developers. - Wes On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Uwe L. Korn wrote: > Hello, > > I just opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2152 to

Add a UUID type to the Arrow format

Hello, I just opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2152 to start the discussion about adding a UUID type to the Arrow format specification. In its essence a UUID is simply a 128bit array but there are often special classes used for it, e.g. java.util.UUID in Java and uuid.UUID in