tustvold commented on code in PR #5612:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/5612#discussion_r1137407741


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datafusion/core/src/dataframe.rs:
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@@ -627,22 +627,12 @@ impl DataFrame {
     /// # }
     /// ```
     pub async fn count(self) -> Result<usize> {
-        let rows = self
-            .aggregate(
-                vec![],
-                vec![datafusion_expr::count(Expr::Literal(ScalarValue::Null))],
-            )?
-            .collect()
-            .await?;
-        let len = *rows
-            .first()
-            .and_then(|r| r.columns().first())
-            .and_then(|c| c.as_any().downcast_ref::<Int64Array>())
-            .and_then(|a| a.values().first())
-            .ok_or(DataFusionError::Internal(
-                "Unexpected output when collecting for count()".to_string(),
-            ))? as usize;
-        Ok(len)
+        let mut stream = self.execute_stream().await?;

Review Comment:
   I'm not sure if there is a better way to express this, in particular I'm not 
sure what `select count(*) from table` would compile down to, I can't help 
feeling there should be a better way to express this for the optimiser



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