chriscasola commented on code in PR #35723:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/35723#discussion_r1210672435


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go/arrow/array/string.go:
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@@ -79,16 +79,12 @@ func (a *String) ValueOffsets() []int32 {
        return a.offsets[beg:end]
 }
 
-func (a *String) ValueBytes() (ret []byte) {
+func (a *String) ValueBytes() []byte {
        beg := a.array.data.offset
        end := beg + a.array.data.length
        data := a.values[a.offsets[beg]:a.offsets[end]]
 
-       s := (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&ret))
-       s.Data = (*reflect.StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&data)).Data
-       s.Len = len(data)
-       s.Cap = len(data)
-       return
+       return []byte(data)

Review Comment:
   Yes we changed this because of the `SliceHeader` issue.
   
   When would this cause a copy? Aren't we slicing the string which is 
referencing the same underlying data?



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