[ARROW-254] Remove Bit type as it is redundant with boolean

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.0
• Component/s: Format
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15319
• Assignee: Julien Le Dem
• Reporter: Julien Le Dem
• Created: 10/Aug/16 19:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:07
• Resolved: 12/Aug/16 22:58

Description

The only use of Bit is for the nullability (or validity) vector which is best understood as a boolean type.
We should remove it as it is not used otherwise.

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