datatypes/physical_type.rs

[cfg(feature = "serde")]

// Source: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars | License: MIT | Copyright 2025 Ritchie Vink
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#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

pub use crate::types::PrimitiveType;

/// The set of physical types: unique in-memory representations of an Arrow array.
///
/// A physical type has a one-to-many relationship with a [`crate::datatypes::ArrowDataType`] and
/// a one-to-one mapping to each struct in this crate that implements [`crate::array::Array`].
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(Serialize, Deserialize))]
pub enum PhysicalType {
    /// A Null with no allocation.
    Null,
    /// A boolean represented as a single bit.
    Boolean,
    /// An array whe

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