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move views to a separate bullet point from varbinary
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bkietz committed Sep 13, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -106,10 +106,12 @@ the different physical layouts defined by Arrow:
* **Primitive (fixed-size)**: a sequence of values each having the
same byte or bit width
* **Variable-size Binary**: a sequence of values each having a variable
byte length. Three variants of this layout are supported using
* 32-bit offset encoding
* 64-bit offset encoding
* 128-bit view-or-inline encoding
byte length. Two variants of this layout are supported using 32-bit
and 64-bit length encoding.
* **Views of Variable-size Binary**: a sequence of values each having a
variable byte length. In contrast to Variable-size Binary, the values
of this layout are distributed across potentially multiple buffers
instead of densely and sequentially packed in a single buffer.
* **Fixed-size List**: a nested layout where each value has the same
number of elements taken from a child data type.
* **Variable-size List**: a nested layout where each value is a
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