From 1d78df3bc3fc0c2e1c8ad1f72a26579521af1689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raz Luvaton <16746759+rluvaton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:21:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: run validation when debug assertion enabled and not
 only for test

---
 arrow-row/src/lib.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arrow-row/src/lib.rs b/arrow-row/src/lib.rs
index 3ffa71e98c30..3c63f3bd6bf2 100644
--- a/arrow-row/src/lib.rs
+++ b/arrow-row/src/lib.rs
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ impl RowConverter {
         // and therefore must be valid
         let result = unsafe { self.convert_raw(&mut rows, validate_utf8) }?;
 
-        if cfg!(test) {
+        if cfg!(debug_assertions) {
             for (i, row) in rows.iter().enumerate() {
                 if !row.is_empty() {
                     return Err(ArrowError::InvalidArgumentError(format!(