remove unnecessary assertion in ListView

Signed-off-by: Andrew Duffy <[email protected]>

Author: a10y

vortex-array/src/array/mod.rs

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ use vortex_scalar::Scalar;
 
 use crate::arrays::{
     BoolEncoding, ConstantVTable, DecimalEncoding, ExtensionEncoding, FixedSizeListEncoding,
-    ListEncoding, ListViewEncoding, NullEncoding, PrimitiveEncoding, StructEncoding,
-    VarBinEncoding, VarBinViewEncoding,
+    ListViewEncoding, NullEncoding, PrimitiveEncoding, StructEncoding, VarBinEncoding,
+    VarBinViewEncoding,
 };
 use crate::builders::ArrayBuilder;
 use crate::compute::{ComputeFn, Cost, InvocationArgs, IsConstantOpts, Output, is_constant_opts};

vortex-array/src/arrays/listview/array.rs

@@ -221,17 +221,6 @@ impl ListViewArray {
         // Check that the size type can fit within the offset type to prevent overflows.
         let size_ptype = sizes.dtype().as_ptype();
         let offset_ptype = offsets.dtype().as_ptype();
-        let size_max = sizes.dtype().as_ptype().max_value_as_u64();
-        let offset_max = offsets.dtype().as_ptype().max_value_as_u64();
-
-        vortex_ensure!(
-            size_max <= offset_max,
-            "size type {:?} (max {}) must fit within offset type {:?} (max {})",
-            size_ptype,
-            size_max,
-            offset_ptype,
-            offset_max
-        );
 
         // If a validity array is present, it must be the same length as the `ListViewArray`.
         if let Some(validity_len) = validity.maybe_len() {