Micah Kornfield created ARROW-6473: -------------------------------------- Summary: [Format] Clarify dictionary encoding edge cases Key: ARROW-6473 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6473 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Documentation, Format Reporter: Micah Kornfield Assignee: Micah Kornfield
Several recent threads on the mailing list: 1. Edge case for all null columns and interleaved dictionaries 2. Semantics non-delta dictionaries (and relation to the file format). 3. Propose a forward compatible enum so dictionaries can represented as other types besides for a "flat" vector. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.2#803003)