coady opened a new issue, #34153: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34153
### Describe the enhancement requested While I support the decision for tables to not have index columns, I have still found it useful to enable fast binary search when it's known that a table is sorted. Currently I'm using `schema.pandas_metadata['index_columns']` to detect sorting. It would be nice if arrow had it own metadata standard, instead of a pandas dependency. The feature could go through stages: 1. define and document metadata standard 2. `Table.sort_by` adds the metadata 3. a binary search compute function is added ### Component(s) C++, Python -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
