lance-format / lance-format/lance
Add flag to pack at the top-level
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- Rust
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Description
Currently we can only pack fields within structs. In some cases users might want to pack the entire row. This effectively makes lance a row-based format which can be useful in some situations (e.g. spill tables for join).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by locating the existing flag and implementation for packing fields within structs, then trace how rows are encoded; done means a flag can pack an entire top-level row and supports the spill-table use case described.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100