[ARROW-8069] [C++] Should the default value of "check_metadata" arguments of Equals methods be "true"?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24281
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 11/Mar/20 00:21
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:57
• Resolved: 27/Apr/20 03:16

Description

We just changed the default in Python to False for usability reasons. Since C++ has different usability considerations, we don't necessarily need to have the default be the same, but I'm curious if anyone has any opinions one way or the other. I would be weakly supportive of changing the default to false