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Micah Kornfield commented on ARROW-16048:
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I don't think this affect faithfulness. Another option specifically for pickle
could be to modify the condition in
[__reduce_ex_]([https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/d327f694d7cd6b5919fe1df7d9dea6e7ebef03e1/python/pyarrow/io.pxi#L1119)]
which returns pybytes also when the underlying buffer has size 0?
> [PyArrow] Null buffers with Pickle protocol.
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> Key: ARROW-16048
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16048
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Micah Kornfield
> Assignee: Micah Kornfield
> Priority: Minor
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> When underlying buffers are null they populate the buffer protocol ".buf"
> value with a null value. In some cases this can violate contracts [asserted
> in
> cpython|https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/882d8096c262a5945e0cfdd706e5db3ad2b73543/Modules/_pickle.c#L1072].
> It might be best to always return an empty non-null buffer when the
> underlying buffer is null.
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