[ARROW-662] [Format] Factor Flatbuffer schema metadata into a Schema.fbs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Format
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16286
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 19/Mar/17 01:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 23/Mar/17 16:30

Description

Let's do this after the open patches against the format are resolved but:

it would be useful to split the Schema, Type, and Field flatbuffer types into a separate file, so that Schema can be reused more easily in other Flatbuffers files.