apache / apache/arrow

[C++] Allow disabling extension type deserialization when reading IPC

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Description

### Describe the enhancement requested

Certain users of the IPC format may want to entirely prohibit deserialization of extension types, or adopt a selective whitelist approach when loading extension types.

This may come up useful when there is a concern that some third-party extension types may have latent robusteness issues in their deserialization code.

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