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Nic Crane commented on ARROW-12789:
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Also, feel free to push back on this if you don't think there's a huge amount
of application beyond R - I can always look to implement it in the R package's
C++ code if this is looking to be a particularly special case that won't be
needed elsewhere?
> [C++] Support for scalar value recycling in RecordBatch/Table creation
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> Key: ARROW-12789
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12789
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Nic Crane
> Priority: Major
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> Please can we have the capability to be able to recycle scalar values during
> table creation? It would work as follows:
> Upon creation of a new Table/RecordBatch, the length of each column is
> checked. If:
> * number of columns is > 1 and
> * any columns have length 1 and
> * not all columns have length 1
> then, the value in the length 1 column(s) should be repeated to make it as
> long as the other columns.
> This should only occur if all columns either have length 1 or N (where N is
> some value greater than 1), and if any columns lengths are values other than
> 1 or N, we should still get an error as we do now.
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