Make Apache Arrow Optional

[ayuhito]

Make Apache Arrow Optional

[marcboeker]

Thanks for bringing this up. We'll have a look at it. Maybe we can include the Arrow and Appender interface by default (as it is right now) and add build tags to exclude them.

[ayuhito]

Perhaps dead code elimination doesn't really work since we import the database like this?

import (
	_ "github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb"
)

Edit: I've seen other database implementations use modules to specify imports instead to get around it as an alternative to build tags. For example:

import (
	_ "github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb/driver"
        _ "github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb/embed"
        "github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb/arrow"
)