pitrou opened a new issue, #46403: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46403
### Describe the enhancement requested This snippet in Python showcases the problem. Arrow will naively attempt to print very large items in full when asking to print an array or table: ```python >>> tab = pa.table({'a': [b"x"*500_000_000]*10}) >>> tab.nbytes 5000000040 >>> tab ^C ``` ### Component(s) C++ -- 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