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> [Format] Clarify presence of Struct array validity bitmap
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> Key: ARROW-15846
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15846
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Format
> Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
> Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 8.0.0
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> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> The following wording in the format spec is a bit ambiguous:
> bq. A struct array must still have an allocated validity bitmap, if it has
> one or more null values.
> https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Columnar.html#struct-layout
> This can be misinterpreted as meaning that a struct array with no nulls does
> not have any buffer at all. In reality, it has an "absent" validity buffer
> (e.g. with 0 length).
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