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Varaint Type: Add logical type annotation for writer #2546

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Follow up to #2188 (comment)

iceberg-rust writes via AsyncArrowWriter, which derives the Parquet schema from the Arrow schema. In parquet 58.1.0, that path only emits the VARIANT annotation when the field carries the parquet_variant_compute::VariantType extension type and variant_experimental is enabled (otherwise logical_type_for_struct is a stub returning None). I couldn't find a public per-field hook to inject the annotation onto a plain Struct(Binary,Binary).

So the real cost is: enable variant_experimental + attach the extension type to the field. Two risks that I see:

  1. Turning on the feature may change how the reader decodes a VARIANT-annotated group (native VariantArray instead of Struct{metadata,value}) — could break the current read path that expects the struct.
  2. New experimental dep surface.

Surfaced here: #2188 (comment)

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