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Dewey Dunnington commented on ARROW-14999: ------------------------------------------ Yes, we do use those names to communicate some information in the geoarrow spec (although I don't think we need them for type equality since it doesn't affect the storage interpretation). > [C++] List types with different field names are not equal > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-14999 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14999 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++ > Affects Versions: 6.0.0 > Reporter: Will Jones > Assignee: Will Jones > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 10.0.0 > > Time Spent: 10m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > When comparing map types, the names of the fields are ignored. This was > introduced in ARROW-7173. > However for list types, they are not ignored. For example, > {code:python} > In [6]: l1 = pa.list_(pa.field("val", pa.int64())) > In [7]: l2 = pa.list_(pa.int64()) > In [8]: l1 > Out[8]: ListType(list<val: int64>) > In [9]: l2 > Out[9]: ListType(list<item: int64>) > In [10]: l1 == l2 > Out[10]: False > {code} > Should we make list type comparison ignore field names too? -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)