Seems to be supported through arrow to pandas conversions at the moment. I believe the DictionaryUnifier could be leveraged for this.
Not sure if there are unintended consequences, but the NYI implies that this is desired. Didn't see an open issue for it already.
Reporter: Daniel Nugent / @nugend
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