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Not clear. Will this allow loading ipc files in DuckDB finally? That's been my biggest issue, since I use IPC files for append operations before I turn them into parquet files.

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That’s possible with the arrow extension today.

I was sure it supported .arrow but not the streaming .ipc format, but will re-check when I have a chance

It was not supported for quite a while indeed, but now there's https://duckdb.org/2025/05/23/arrow-ipc-support-in-duckdb.ht...

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