[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-62) Format: Are the nulls bits 0 or 1 for null values?

["Wes McKinney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-62?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Wes McKinney reassigned ARROW-62:
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    Assignee: Wes McKinney

> Format: Are the nulls bits 0 or 1 for null values?
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>                 Key: ARROW-62
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-62
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Format
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Assignee: Wes McKinney
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> As brought up by Dan Robinson on the mailing list (thank you for catching this!), there is an inconsistency in the format documents in the representation of nulls with the ValueVectors code import -- since I drafted these format documents initially I'll take the blame for the inconsistency, but:
> * Drill / ValueVectors uses the value 0 for null data, and 1 for non-null data
> * The format document currently states the opposite (values are null if the bit is set)
> I can see arguments both ways, but one argument for the ValueVectors style is that values must be explicitly set to be non-null, versus uninitialized values being accidentally interpreted as being non-null. When initializing a bitmap, one can {{memset}} the bits to 0, then set then to 1 when non-null values are appended during construction.



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