andygrove commented on code in PR #11534:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/11534#discussion_r1683087575


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datafusion/physical-expr/src/expressions/case.rs:
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@@ -256,6 +289,36 @@ impl CaseExpr {
 
         Ok(ColumnarValue::Array(current_value))
     }
+
+    /// This function evaluates the specialized case of:
+    ///
+    /// CASE WHEN condition THEN column
+    ///      [ELSE NULL]
+    /// END
+    fn case_column_or_null(&self, batch: &RecordBatch) -> 
Result<ColumnarValue> {
+        let when_expr = &self.when_then_expr[0].0;
+        let then_expr = &self.when_then_expr[0].1;
+        if let ColumnarValue::Array(bit_mask) = when_expr.evaluate(batch)? {

Review Comment:
   actually, nm, your question is different. Yes, we could implement special 
handling for `CASE WHEN [true|false] THEN` but I'm not sure that is a 
real-world use case that is worth optimizing



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