jorgecarleitao commented on a change in pull request #9565:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9565#discussion_r584926908
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File path: rust/datafusion/src/physical_plan/type_coercion.rs
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@@ -168,20 +168,35 @@ fn maybe_data_types(
pub fn can_coerce_from(type_into: &DataType, type_from: &DataType) -> bool {
use self::DataType::*;
match type_into {
- Int8 => matches!(type_from, Int8),
- Int16 => matches!(type_from, Int8 | Int16 | UInt8),
- Int32 => matches!(type_from, Int8 | Int16 | Int32 | UInt8 | UInt16),
+ Int8 => matches!(type_from, Int8 | Utf8 | LargeUtf8),
Review comment:
Another option is to add a new function `maybe_cast -> Result<Arc<dyn
Array>>`.
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