[Format] Interval type is not documented

Open asfimport opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

All types except Interval are documented in Metadata.md. Information about Interval is missing, in particular what is its size (64 bit?) and what is the meaning of IntervalUnit values.

Reporter: Konstantin Shaposhnikov

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-3097. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

Aug 20 '18 17:08 asfimport

Wes McKinney / @wesm: [[email protected]] the Interval type is not yet fully specified. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-352. Also see discussion in

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Columnar+Format+1.0+Milestone#ColumnarFormat1.0Milestone-Interval/Timedelta

cc @jacques-n

Aug 20 '18 17:08 asfimport