From f285be95a165134b416f7a1685eba0c55cc38a39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wes McKinney <wes.mckinney@twosigma.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 19:56:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Restore code paths for empty chunked arrays for backwards
 compat

Change-Id: Icb0567eef9f2fac5284171c4371e3c3d22b91fc5
---
 cpp/src/arrow/table.cc | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cpp/src/arrow/table.cc b/cpp/src/arrow/table.cc
index 51c026c06abd5..009b5cf6373de 100644
--- a/cpp/src/arrow/table.cc
+++ b/cpp/src/arrow/table.cc
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ namespace arrow {
 // ChunkedArray and Column methods
 
 ChunkedArray::ChunkedArray(const ArrayVector& chunks) : chunks_(chunks) {
-  DCHECK_GT(chunks.size(), 0);
   length_ = 0;
   null_count_ = 0;
   for (const std::shared_ptr<Array>& chunk : chunks) {
@@ -108,8 +107,11 @@ Column::Column(const std::shared_ptr<Field>& field, const ArrayVector& chunks)
 
 Column::Column(const std::shared_ptr<Field>& field, const std::shared_ptr<Array>& data)
     : field_(field) {
-  DCHECK(data);
-  data_ = std::make_shared<ChunkedArray>(ArrayVector({data}));
+  if (!data) {
+    data_ = std::make_shared<ChunkedArray>(ArrayVector({}));
+  } else {
+    data_ = std::make_shared<ChunkedArray>(ArrayVector({data}));
+  }
 }
 
 Column::Column(const std::string& name, const std::shared_ptr<Array>& data)