lidavidm opened a new pull request, #36015: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/36015
<!-- Thanks for opening a pull request! If this is your first pull request you can find detailed information on how to contribute here: * [New Contributor's Guide](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/dev/developers/guide/step_by_step/pr_lifecycle.html#reviews-and-merge-of-the-pull-request) * [Contributing Overview](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/dev/developers/overview.html) If this is not a [minor PR](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#Minor-Fixes). Could you open an issue for this pull request on GitHub? https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/new/choose Opening GitHub issues ahead of time contributes to the [Openness](http://theapacheway.com/open/#:~:text=Openness%20allows%20new%20users%20the,must%20happen%20in%20the%20open.) of the Apache Arrow project. Then could you also rename the pull request title in the following format? GH-${GITHUB_ISSUE_ID}: [${COMPONENT}] ${SUMMARY} or MINOR: [${COMPONENT}] ${SUMMARY} In the case of PARQUET issues on JIRA the title also supports: PARQUET-${JIRA_ISSUE_ID}: [${COMPONENT}] ${SUMMARY} --> ### Rationale for this change The package segfaulted before. ### What changes are included in this PR? Allow duplicate field names (in general methods will return the first field if there are duplicates) ### Are these changes tested? Yes ### Are there any user-facing changes? Yes <!-- If there are any breaking changes to public APIs, please uncomment the line below and explain which changes are breaking. --> <!-- **This PR includes breaking changes to public APIs.** --> <!-- Please uncomment the line below (and provide explanation) if the changes fix either (a) a security vulnerability, (b) a bug that caused incorrect or invalid data to be produced, or (c) a bug that causes a crash (even when the API contract is upheld). We use this to highlight fixes to issues that may affect users without their knowledge. For this reason, fixing bugs that cause errors don't count, since those are usually obvious. --> <!-- **This PR contains a "Critical Fix".** --> -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org