As I recall there might have been the desire to permit 64-bit representation of SECOND and MILLI time values, but I would opt for YAGNI (until we actually do) and deprecate this bit width field in Schema.fbs (we shouldn't outright remove it -- for backwards compatibility -- unless it's actively causing a problem)
- Wes On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:09 PM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the flatbuffer schema what is the purpose of bit width in "table Time" > [1] based on the documentation it sounds like bit-width is fully determined > by TimeUnit? In other cases (e.g. Date) we don't have a similar field. > > Thanks, > Micah > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L148
