scovich commented on issue #7895:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7895#issuecomment-3090705369
> We would need this schema:
>
> ```
> STRUCT {
> metadata: BinaryView,
> value: BinaryView,
> typed_value: STRUCT {
> foo: Int64,
> bar: Int32
> }
> }
> ```
We need to decide whether the shredding schema should match what we will
physically write, or if it's a logical schema for convenience? Because the
actual physical shredding schema for the above would be:
```
STRUCT {
metadata: BINARY,
value: BINARY,
typed_value: STRUCT {
foo: STRUCT {
value: BINARY,
typed_value: Int64,
},
bar: STRUCT {
value: BINARY,
typed_value: Int32,
},
},
}
```
(we could debate whether a missing `value` column is a request from the user
to drop all values that don't shred properly... but that seems like a massive
footgun. I'd rather let the perfect shredding case encode all-null and let the
parquet writer drop the column if it wants to)
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