westonpace commented on issue #33958:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/33958#issuecomment-1443749515

   I'll let @ianmcook answer this as I'm not actually sure what "primitive 
types" is referring to.  I think, when I marked this, I assumed he was talking 
about logical types.  Perhaps https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14752 
would actually be a better starting point.  That issue is about replacing [this 
paragraph](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#logical-types) 
with a brief listing of [these 
types](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/format/Schema.fbs#L407-L430).  
For example, it is not clear in the document that Arrow supports a "boolean" 
type.  One must refer to the schema to figure this out.  (the document 
describes the physical layout, "fixed-size primitive", and the schema defines 
the type "Bool")
   
   Another place we have a listing of logical types is at 
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/status.html#data-types .  So I think the idea is 
to just have a listing of data types in the "arrow columnar format" page.


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