alamb commented on a change in pull request #8332:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8332#discussion_r499137657



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File path: rust/arrow/src/util/pretty.rs
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@@ -71,24 +71,22 @@ fn create_table(results: &[RecordBatch]) -> Result<Table> {
 
 macro_rules! make_string {
     ($array_type:ty, $column: ident, $row: ident) => {{
-        Ok($column
-            .as_any()
-            .downcast_ref::<$array_type>()
-            .unwrap()
-            .value($row)
-            .to_string())
+        let array = $column.as_any().downcast_ref::<$array_type>().unwrap();
+
+        let s = if array.is_null($row) {
+            "".to_string()
+        } else {
+            array.value($row).to_string()
+        };
+
+        Ok(s)
     }};
 }
 
 /// Get the value at the given row in an array as a string
 fn array_value_to_string(column: array::ArrayRef, row: usize) -> 
Result<String> {
     match column.data_type() {
-        DataType::Utf8 => Ok(column

Review comment:
       There was no reason `Utf8` couldn't use the same `make_string!` macro so 
I unified the code paths




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