I think this is probably because the schema is transformed for Dictionary
encoded fields [1]. Something could probably be done to expose the schema
separately, but the library and readers are mostly designed around
populating and repopulating VectorSchemaRoots, so I don't think the extra
cost was
Why is the Schema object not exposed in ArrowReader? (e.g. readSchema
is protected). Instead, I need to call
getVectorSchemaRoot().getSchema() which unnecessarily allocates a
VectorSchemaRoot that I don't immediately need.
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Michael Mior
mm...@apache.org
