westonpace commented on PR #33770:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/33770#issuecomment-1399270231

   @nealrichardson Ok, I did some investigation.
   
   First, the reason this is not being encountered from pyarrow:
   
   The scanner options currently takes both a projected schema and a projection 
expression.  R sets the projection expression (and so the C++ needs to figure 
out the projected schema) and python sets the projected schema (and C++ needs 
to figure out the projection expression).  So pyarrow never encounters the code 
you are modifying (to the best of my knowledge).
   
   Second, the concern about loading the entire top-level field:
   
   It turns out that partial column loading was [never fully implemented 
anyways](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/apache-arrow-11.0.0/cpp/src/arrow/dataset/file_parquet.cc#L240-L247).
  So even though we go through all the trouble of figuring out exactly which 
child to load, we still just load the entire top-level field.
   
   That being said, if R is working as you expect, then I approve this approach.


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