Describe the enhancement requested

When arrays using 32-bit offsets into data buffers are concatenated and the data buffers of the results grow beyond 2GB, Concatenate returns a bad Status with a very simple message:

"offset overflow while concatenating arrays"

The contract that Concatenate honors is very simple: arrays of input type T lead to output of the same type T, so we can't, for instance, return a LARGE_STRING [1] array when the input is STRING.

But we can suggest a cast to the caller in case an overflow error is detected. Either programatically (by taking an output parameter) or by giving a better error message to users.

[1] LARGE_STRING can use 64-bit offsets

Component(s)

C++