Remove unique field check

Author: friendlymatthew

arrow-schema/src/fields.rs

@@ -343,7 +343,6 @@ impl UnionFields {
     ///
     /// This function returns an error if:
     /// - Any type_id appears more than once (duplicate type ids)
-    /// - Any field appears more than once (duplicate fields)
     /// - The number of type_ids doesn't match the number of fields
     ///
     /// # Examples
@@ -362,7 +361,7 @@ impl UnionFields {
     /// );
     /// assert!(result.is_ok());
     ///
-    /// // This will fail due to duplicate type id
+    /// // This will fail due to duplicate type ids
     /// let result = UnionFields::try_new(
     ///     vec![1, 1],
     ///     vec![
@@ -384,7 +383,6 @@ impl UnionFields {
         let fields_capacity = fields_iter.size_hint().0;
 
         let mut seen_type_ids = 0u128;
-        let mut seen_fields = HashSet::with_capacity(fields_capacity);
 
         let mut out = Vec::new();
 
@@ -409,13 +407,6 @@ impl UnionFields {
 
                     seen_type_ids |= mask;
 
-                    // check field id uniqueness
-                    if !seen_fields.insert(Arc::clone(&field)) {
-                        return Err(ArrowError::InvalidArgumentError(format!(
-                            "duplicate field: {field}"
-                        )));
-                    }
-
                     out.push((type_id, field));
                 }
                 (None, Some(_)) => {
@@ -764,8 +755,7 @@ mod tests {
     fn test_union_fields_try_new_duplicate_field() {
         let field = Field::new("field", DataType::UInt8, false);
         let res = UnionFields::try_new(vec![1, 2], vec![field.clone(), field]);
-        assert!(res.is_err());
-        assert!(res.unwrap_err().to_string().contains("duplicate field"));
+        assert!(res.is_ok());
     }
 
     #[test]