I am pretty sure that we have no uses of validity() returning an error now.
We have this in vortex-array/src/array/vtable/validity.rs which always returns Ok:
impl<V: VTable> ValidityVTable<V> for ValidityVTableFromValidityHelper
where
V::ArrayData: ValidityHelper,
{
fn validity(array: ArrayView<'_, V>) -> VortexResult<Validity> {
Ok(array.data().validity().clone())
}
}