alamb commented on code in PR #8093: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8093#discussion_r2286025073
########## parquet-variant-compute/src/variant_array.rs: ########## @@ -251,6 +255,13 @@ pub enum ShreddingState { value: BinaryViewArray, typed_value: ArrayRef, }, + /// All values are null, only metadata is present. + /// + /// This state occurs when neither `value` nor `typed_value` fields exist in the schema. Review Comment: I think this is a reasonable approach for now. If we find a reason to restrict AllNull to only sub fields at some later point, then we can add additional code / restrictions -- 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