[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-6818) [Doc] Format docs confusing

["Antoine Pitrou (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-6818:
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cc [~wesm] [~emkornfield]

> [Doc] Format docs confusing
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-6818
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6818
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Documentation, Format
>            Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
>            Priority: Major
>
> I find there are several issues in the format docs.
> 1) there is a claimed distinction between "logical types" and "physical types", but the "physical types" actually lists logical types such as Map
> 2) the "logical types" document doesn't actually list logical types, it just sends to the flatbuffers file. One shouldn't have to read a flatbuffers file to understand the Arrow format.
> 3) some terminology seems unusual, such as "relative type"
> 4) why is there a link to the Apache Drill docs?



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