Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

If an empty array is passed to ArrowReader::get_record_reader_by_columns it returns an error.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be advantageous to support an empty projection within ParquetRecordBatchReader, and instead use file metadata to return the requisite number of rows. This will need the ability to create a RecordBatch with no columns and a non-zero row count #1536

Describe alternatives you've considered

We could not add this functionality

Additional context

This would simplify the implementation of Hive based partitioning, amongst other things - apache/datafusion#2000