See @alendit comment in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/2315#discussion_r204668176 **Reporter**: [Wes McKinney](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2905) / @wesm #### PRs and other links: - [GitHub Pull Request #3863](https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/3863) <sub>**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [ARROW-2905](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2905). Please see the [migration documentation](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542) for further details.*</sub>