[ARROW-58] Format: Draft type metadata ("schemas") IDL

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Format
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15471
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 10/Mar/16 01:02
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:06
• Resolved: 23/Mar/16 02:25

Description

Related to ARROW-57. This will be a large effort as the type metadata will need to be adequate to meet the needs of a large number of systems and addition be open to future additions (i.e. more logical data types) without adding onerous complexity.