alamb commented on pull request #7971:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7971#issuecomment-675442799


   Looking briefly at Spark, it seems that user defined aggregates have a 
single defined return type:
   https://docs.databricks.com/spark/latest/spark-sql/udaf-scala.html
   
   ```
     // This is the output type of your aggregatation function.
     override def dataType: DataType = DoubleType
   ```
   
   I am not aware of other analytic frameworks that allow users to specify User 
defined functions that have changeable type


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