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David Li commented on ARROW-13993:
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Yes, we just want a single tuple. Any tuple will do; the point above is that we
can't implement anything else (because the query engine currently lacks support
for ordering, beyond sorting outputs at the very end).
All hash_ kernels ("hash aggregate kernels") are in
[{{hash_aggregate.cc}}|https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/hash_aggregate.cc]
and it will be very similar to the CountDistinct/Distinct implementation
there.
> [C++] Hash aggregate function that returns value from first row in group
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> Key: ARROW-13993
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13993
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Ian Cook
> Assignee: Dhruv Vats
> Priority: Major
> Labels: good-second-issue, kernel
> Fix For: 8.0.0
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> It would be nice to have a hash aggregate function that returns the first
> value of a column within each hash group.
> If row order within groups is non-deterministic, then effectively this would
> return one arbitrary value. This is a very computationally cheap operation.
> This can be quite useful when querying a non-normalized table. For example if
> you have a table with a {{country}} column and also a {{country_abbr}} column
> and you want to group by either/both of those columns but return the values
> from both columns, you could do
> {code:java}
> SELECT country, country_abbr FROM table GROUP BY country, country_abbr{code}
> but it would be more efficient to do
> {code:java}
> SELECT country, first(country_abbr) FROM table GROUP BY country{code}
> because then the engine does not need to scan all the values of the
> {{country_abbr}} column.
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