From cee2b5ea42fbb396c8d55bc630aeabfcf5694b0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 11:23:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore: upgrade pyarrow pin (#2192)

Closes #2191


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Chores**
- Updated the required version of the pyarrow package to version 16 or
higher.
- Adjusted automated testing workflows to install pyarrow version 16 for
compatibility checks.

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---
 .github/workflows/python.yml | 1 +
 python/pyproject.toml        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/python.yml b/.github/workflows/python.yml
index 125336a7..30377f3d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python.yml
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install lancedb
         run: |
           pip install "pydantic<2"
+          pip install pyarrow==16
           pip install --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ -e .[tests]
           pip install tantivy
       - name: Run tests
diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 1df029b1..5d0bc6e0 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "numpy",
     "overrides>=0.7",
     "packaging",
-    "pyarrow>=14",
+    "pyarrow>=16",
     "pydantic>=1.10",
     "tqdm>=4.27.0",
 ]