[ARROW-3839] [Rust] Add ability to infer schema in CSV reader

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Rust
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20320
• Assignee: Neville Dipale
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 19/Nov/18 16:38
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:30
• Resolved: 08/Jan/19 23:49

Description

A CSV reader is being added in ARROW-3726 and it currently requires an explicit schema to be provided.

It would be nice to have an option where the schema can be inferred automatically.

The user should be able to specify some defaults, such as date/time formats.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3128
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3349