lidavidm opened a new issue, #454: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/issues/454
### Describe the enhancement requested > Equal does not compare the metadata. https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/2900ed6f8ae27398d825b2fde2f67d77dcf780b4/arrow/schema.go#L225-L245 But `Field.Equal` does compare the metadata: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/blob/2900ed6f8ae27398d825b2fde2f67d77dcf780b4/arrow/datatype_nested.go#L956-L968 This is a little inconsistent. Ideally we would be able to choose how to compare. We could do the comparison ourselves but it's rather tedious, as we have to recurse into every type to find child fields. (Incidentally, if the DataType interface had a method to get the child fields (possibly empty) regardless of type, this would become much easier.) ### Component(s) Other -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
