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Ian Cook reassigned ARROW-12042:
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Assignee: Ian Cook
> [C++] Change or rationalize output of array_sort_indices on ChunkedArray
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>
> Key: ARROW-12042
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12042
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: C++
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Ian Cook
> Assignee: Ian Cook
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently when the {{array_sort_indices}} compute function is called on a
> ChunkedArray of two or more Arrays, it returns a ChunkedArray of Arrays of
> _local_ sort indices for each Array. Demonstrating this with the R bindings
> (but note that these R examples will not run until ARROW-11703 is merged):
> {code:java}
> > x <- ChunkedArray$create(c(2L, 1L), c(4L, 3L))
> > arrow:::call_function("array_sort_indices", x, options = list(order =
> > FALSE))
> ChunkedArray
> [
> [
> 1,
> 0
> ],
> [
> 1,
> 0
> ]
> ]
> {code}
> Compare to the {{sort_indices}} compute function which returns an Array of
> _global_ sort indices in this case:
> {code:java}
> > arrow:::call_function("sort_indices", x, options = list(names = "", orders
> > = 0L))
> Array
> <uint64>
> [
> 1,
> 0,
> 3,
> 2
> ]{code}
> Is this behavior deliberate? If so, we should document it clearly. If not, we
> should change it.
> Note that the docs currently states that {{array_sort_indices}} only works on
> Arrays [https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/compute.html#sorts-and-partitions]
> (see note (4)) but evidently that is not exactly correct.
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