jorgecarleitao commented on a change in pull request #8090:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/8090#discussion_r481274249



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File path: rust/datafusion/src/execution/physical_plan/string_expressions.rs
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+
+//! String expressions
+
+use crate::error::{ExecutionError, Result};
+use arrow::array::{Array, ArrayRef, StringArray, StringBuilder};
+
+macro_rules! downcast_vec {
+    ($ARGS:expr, $ARRAY_TYPE:ident) => {{
+        $ARGS
+            .iter()
+            .map(|e| match e.as_any().downcast_ref::<$ARRAY_TYPE>() {
+                Some(array) => Ok(array),
+                _ => Err(ExecutionError::General("failed to 
downcast".to_string())),
+            })
+    }};
+}
+
+/// concatenate string columns together.
+pub fn concatenate(args: &[ArrayRef]) -> Result<StringArray> {
+    // downcast all arguments to strings
+    let args = downcast_vec!(args, 
StringArray).collect::<Result<Vec<&StringArray>>>()?;
+    // do not accept 0 arguments.
+    assert!(args.len() != 0);

Review comment:
       Thanks for the suggestions 👍 I've added an error when the plan has 0 
arguments.




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