Improve schema merging
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.**
I am trying to work with the nyctaxi parquet data set which has one file per month. Over time, some of the types have changed. For example `passenger_count` started out as `Int64` and was later changed to `Float64`.
Arrow-rs can not merge these schemas.
Other solutions (such as DuckDB) will merge these schemas and pick the least restrictive type (`Float64`).
**Describe the solution you'd like**
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**Additional context**
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Research direction
No source files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the failure with the monthly nyctaxi Parquet files and inspect the Arrow-rs schema-merging entry point; done means schemas containing Int64 and Float64 passenger_count merge successfully using Float64.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100