pitrou commented on code in PR #38147:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38147#discussion_r1356414226


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cpp/src/arrow/compute/light_array.cc:
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@@ -80,16 +80,15 @@ KeyColumnArray KeyColumnArray::Slice(int64_t offset, 
int64_t length) const {
   KeyColumnArray sliced;
   sliced.metadata_ = metadata_;
   sliced.length_ = length;
-  uint32_t fixed_size =
-      !metadata_.is_fixed_length ? sizeof(uint32_t) : metadata_.fixed_length;
+  uint32_t fixed_size = metadata_.fixed_length;
 
   sliced.buffers_[0] =
       buffers_[0] ? buffers_[0] + (bit_offset_[0] + offset) / 8 : nullptr;
   sliced.mutable_buffers_[0] =
       mutable_buffers_[0] ? mutable_buffers_[0] + (bit_offset_[0] + offset) / 
8 : nullptr;
   sliced.bit_offset_[0] = (bit_offset_[0] + offset) % 8;
 
-  if (fixed_size == 0 && !metadata_.is_null_type) {
+  if (metadata_.fixed_length == 0 && !metadata_.is_null_type) {
     sliced.buffers_[1] =
         buffers_[1] ? buffers_[1] + (bit_offset_[1] + offset) / 8 : nullptr;

Review Comment:
   I'm not sure I understand your explanation, sorry :-) Can we add checks (or 
debug assertions) against the actual datatype in this function? Right now it's 
difficult to figure out what happens exactly, and to make sure we don't break 
it again.



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