[ARROW-9899] [Rust] [DataFusion] Switch from Box<Schema> --> SchemaRef (Arc<Schema>) to be consistent with the rest of Arrow

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Rust - DataFusion
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25932
• Assignee: Andrew Lamb
• Reporter: Andrew Lamb
• Created: 02/Sep/20 14:44
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:09
• Resolved: 03/Sep/20 14:16

Description

The idea is to use SchemaRef (which is an Arc<Schema>) instead of Box<Schema> inside Datafusion to be consistent with the rest of the arrow implementation, avoid so many copies, and make the code simpler.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8086