alamb opened a new pull request, #5166: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/5166
Draft as testing and documentation is not done. I wanted to get a draft up in case anyone was curious # Which issue does this PR close? Closes https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/5016 # Rationale for this change This function is important to be able to test thing such as `DictionaryArray` via sql (datafusion-cli as well as sqllogictests). It also will help control output into parquet files more precisely, for example. See https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/5016 for more details # What changes are included in this PR? - [ ] Add special handling for `arrow_cast` in sql planner - [ ] code to convert from string to an `DataType` (opposite of `data_type.to_string()`) -- TODO FILE issue upstream in arrow - [ ] sqllogicbased tests - [ ] Documentation about the # Are these changes tested? Yes # Are there any user-facing changes? a new `arrow_cast` function -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
