What situation are anticipating where you're going to be restating ids mid stream?
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:13 AM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The IPC specification [1] defines behavior when isDelta on a > DictionaryBatch [2] is "true". I might have missed it in the > specification, but I couldn't find the interpretation for what the expected > behavior is when isDelta=false and and two dictionary batches with the > same ID are sent. > > It seems like there are two options: > 1. Interpret the new dictionary batch as replacing the old one. > 2. Regard this as an error condition. > > Based on the fact that in the "file format" dictionaries are allowed to be > placed in any order relative to the record batches, I assume it is the > second, but just wanted to make sure. > > Thanks, > Micah > > [1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/ipc.html > [2] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Message.fbs#L72 >
