I didn't see other JIRA issues about this, but this is one significant matter to have complete columnar format coverage in the C++ library.
This functionality will flow through to the various bindings, so it would be helpful to add unit tests to assert that things work correctly e.g. in Python from an end-user perspective
Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou
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Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-6883. Please see the migration documentation for further details.