viirya commented on code in PR #40043:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/40043#discussion_r1488754966


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java/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/vector/BaseVariableWidthVector.java:
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@@ -476,11 +507,12 @@ private void allocateBytes(final long valueBufferSize, 
final int valueCount) {
   }
 
   /* allocate offset buffer */
-  private void allocateOffsetBuffer(final long size) {
+  private ArrowBuf allocateOffsetBuffer(final long size) {

Review Comment:
   > > I don't think an inconsistent offset (sometimes it is empty sometimes it 
is one value buffer) is a good idea. Very confused and easy to cause bugs.
   > 
   > Code shouldn't make assumptions because we've already documented that 
those assumptions are wrong. It would be equally true for code working with 
imported arrays: they may have a one value buffer.
   
   Hmm, but this is the current code status...
   
   You can see how these var-size vectors handle offset buffer, they assume 
that the initial capacity of offset buffer is 0. That's why I got some many 
test failure after I changed the initial offset buffer.



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