vtk9 opened a new issue, #207: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/issues/207
### Describe the enhancement requested **Use case**: there is an arrow table in shared memory. It was written using Python's Arrow `RecordBatchStreamWriter` (although even if it was written using `RecordBatchStreamWriter`, I believe the same problem would exist due to the current state of the Go Arrow implementation). We would like to load it lazily and stream it directly to an arrow flight client. We would do so by opening up the file in process memory (lazily), then we would first aggregate the list of records (lazily) and then read the contents of the records for the first time when streaming the data to the client. via ``` func (s *MyServer) DoGet( ticket *flight.Ticket, server flight.FlightService_DoGetServer, ) error { ... w := flight.NewRecordWriter(server, writerOpts...) for _, r := range s.recordsInTable { if err = w.Write(r); err != nil { return err } } ``` Ideally, up until the records sent, no data would be actually copied/ready. However, this doesn't appear to be possible at the moment since there is a copy done when processing the records https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/main/arrow/ipc/message.go#L217 instead or referencing the already allocated/used shared memory. Instead, there might need to be a new `MessageReader` implementation where this copy is avoided. Thank you! ### Component(s) Other -- 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: issues-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org