[ARROW-1808] [C++] Make RecordBatch interface virtual to permit record batches that lazy-materialize columns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17805
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 14/Nov/17 03:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:17
• Resolved: 22/Nov/17 00:02

Description

This should be looked at soon to prevent having to define a different virtual interface for record batches. There are places where we are using the record batch constructor directly, and in some third party code (like MapD), so this might be good to get done for 0.8.0

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1337