jayzhan211 commented on issue #8302:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/8302#issuecomment-1822827323

   > My current thinking is casting should never silently lose data.
   
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/df69ef57d055453c399fa925ad315d19211d7ab2/arrow-cast/src/cast.rs#L76C2-L80
   
   Comment in `can_cast_types` mention that cast is lossy.
   
   
https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/df69ef57d055453c399fa925ad315d19211d7ab2/arrow-cast/src/cast.rs#L212-L216
   
   Casting Int64 to Int32 return true. I'm not sure if the `actual` casting 
block this lossy conversion, but if not, this can silently lose data?


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