[ARROW-8028] [Go] Allow duplicate field names in schemas and nested types

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.16.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: Go
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24243
• Assignee: Sebastien Binet
• Reporter: Ben Kietzman
• Created: 07/Mar/20 17:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:57
• Resolved: 13/Mar/20 11:09

Description

Go's implementation of Schema panics if field names are duplicated within a schema. This is not guaranteed by the standard, so Go will not be able to handle valid record batches produced by other implementations which contain these.

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/084549a/go/arrow/schema.go#L117

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6580