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Omer Katz commented on ARROW-2152: ---------------------------------- Possible duplicate of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2051 > [Format] UUID type > ------------------ > > Key: ARROW-2152 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2152 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Format > Reporter: Uwe L. Korn > Priority: Major > > Add a UUID type that is physically represented as an 128bit fixed sized > binary. The addition of the type should add the annotation that a value in > this column is a UUID. The important benefit would be that in the native > language object models we could return the respective UUID class, e.g. > {{java.util.UUID}} in Java and {{uuid.UUID}} in Python. For reference, > Postgres and Parquet both have a UUID type as well do other data system have > this small specialization. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)