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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARROW-1674:
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Github user wesm commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1201
I also want to emphasize that the serialized Flatbuffers metadata and the
in-memory C++ object model are not a 1-1 mapping. So we don’t need format
changes to solve this problem
> [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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