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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARROW-1674:
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Github user jacques-n commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1201
If I understand what you're saying, I think we should be handling this the
opposite of the way you're proposing. This is really a byte vector, not a bit
vector. If a particular system wants to add metadata so it can know that this
is a bit vector, it could do that with the existing custom metadata stuff [1].
It doesn't seem like something that Arrow should need to worry about.
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs#L285
> [Format] Add bit width metadata to Bool logical type
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> Key: ARROW-1674
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1674
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Format
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> Some libraries represent boolean data as a single byte per value as a vector
> of int8/uint8 1's and 0's. It would be useful to be able to retain this
> metadata as an optional field on the {{Bool}} table in {{Schema.fbs}}
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