Add default_categorical_8 feature#47

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pbower commented Mar 28, 2026

Adds a feature flag for defaulting to a u8 backed Categorical type rather than u32.
This supports compactness when only <= 256 categories are expected.
Apache Arrow uses i32 which is still zero copy compatible with u32 due to identical memory layout but not u8.


          Add default_categorical_8 feature

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