rok commented on PR #13501:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13501#issuecomment-1235901940

   > That seems reasonable. Feel free to merge. You're basically working on the 
physical type and saving off the extension type to reattach later?
   
   Yeah exactly.
   
   > I think, longer term, we might want to consider doing this at the plan 
level. So nodes never have to know about the existence of extension types, and 
we simply attach them, as needed, in the sink. Might want to wait until we have 
a few compute functions for extension types first though so there is a bit more 
example.
   
   Huh, wouldn't there be cases where extensions would be relevant to the 
kernels? E.g. geographical coordinates in a certain projection (where extension 
would contain the projection) and [calculating haversine 
distances](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula).


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