I also addressed ARROW-76 in this patch per Jacques's feedback — more comments welcome! Hopefully these changes are not controversial now that we have a draft end-to-end metadata specification (which includes non-nullable fields, if they are needed).
Thanks On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Wes McKinney <w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Can another committer please review > > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/34 > > This corrects a format specification inconsistency viz-a-viz the > bitmap encoding null/not-null from the initial draft format documents. > > Note that this is orthogonal to the discussion about whether the > concept of "non-nullable" (or "required") is a part of the physical > memory layout or the schema metadata. I will propose a patch for > ARROW-76 after this one is addressed. > > Thank you, > Wes
