jonkeane commented on code in PR #41969:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/41969#discussion_r1627846185


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r/R/metadata.R:
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@@ -44,23 +44,96 @@
 }
 
 .deserialize_arrow_r_metadata <- function(x) {
-  tryCatch(
-    expr = {
-      out <- unserialize(charToRaw(x))
-
-      # if this is still raw, try decompressing
-      if (is.raw(out)) {
-        out <- unserialize(memDecompress(out, type = "gzip"))
-      }
-      out
-    },
+  tryCatch(unserialize_r_metadata(x),
     error = function(e) {
+      if (getOption("arrow.debug", FALSE)) {
+        print(conditionMessage(e))
+      }
       warning("Invalid metadata$r", call. = FALSE)
       NULL
     }
   )
 }
 
+unserialize_r_metadata <- function(x) {
+  # Check that this is ASCII serialized data (as in, what we wrote)
+  if (!identical(substr(unclass(x), 1, 1), "A")) {

Review Comment:
   AAAAAH Maybe a comment `X for binary serialization and A for ASCII 
serialization` there?



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