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Refer to byte array types consistently #433

Closed asfimport closed 5 months ago

asfimport commented 5 months ago

As discussed briefly on the mailing list, the specification is rather loose when discussing the BYTE_ARRAY and FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY primitive types, often referring to them instead as "binary". The proposal here is to always use the primitive type names defined in the README.

 

 

Reporter: Edward Seidl / @etseidl Assignee: Edward Seidl / @etseidl

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Note: This issue was originally created as PARQUET-2485. Please see the migration documentation for further details.