Sevenannn opened a new pull request, #12610: URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/12610
## Which issue does this PR close? No relevant issue ## Rationale for this change Datafusion enforces an eager cast of value to dictionary value in the logical plan where a comparison with dictionary value is presented. For example, in the following plan ```SQL Filter: person_mood.mood_status = CAST(Utf8("happy") AS Dictionary(Int8, Utf8)) ``` However, when using unparser to convert the plan back to sql, where the sql will be sent to various query engine (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) the cast is not needed for the value, in the example above the value `happy`, since the raw value can be directly used in SQL engines without casting to an engine specific dictionary type. Therefore, the plan can simply be rewritten into ```SQL where person_mood.mood_status = 'happy' ``` ## What changes are included in this PR? * Directly pass `inner_expr` instead of `cast inner_expr as dictionary` in the `Expr::Cast` case when the `inner_expr` is a `Value` representing constant and the plan is `cast to dictionary` * Add a test for the change ## Are these changes tested? Yes ## Are there any user-facing changes? No -- 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: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: github-h...@datafusion.apache.org