We may wish to either
- Conform the dictionary indices to reference a common dictionary
- Concatenate indices into a new array with a common dictionary
This is related to in-memory dictionary encoding, as you start with a partially-built dictionary and then add entries as you observe new ones in other dictionaries, all the while "rebasing" indices to consistently reference the same dictionary at the end
Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou
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Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-554. Please see the migration documentation for further details.