[ARROW-5313] [Format] Comments on Field table are a bit confusing

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Format
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21776
• Assignee: Brian Hulette
• Reporter: Brian Hulette
• Created: 13/May/19 21:05
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:39
• Resolved: 15/May/19 23:35

Description

Currently Schema.fbs has two different explanations of Field.children

One says "children is only for nested Arrow arrays" and the other says "children apply only to nested data types like Struct, List and Union". I think both are technically correct but the latter is much more explicit, we should remove the former.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4306