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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-16718:
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This could be an option to the comparison kernels. cc [~westonpace]
> [C++] Implement is_distinct_from and is_not_distinct_from kernels
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> Key: ARROW-16718
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16718
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: C++
> Reporter: Ian Cook
> Priority: Minor
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> Some SQL engines have the comparison operators {{IS DISTINCT FROM}} and
> {{{}IS NOT DISTINCT FROM{}}}. These are so-called {_}null-safe comparison
> operators{_}.
> As explained in the Impala docs:
> {quote}The IS DISTINCT FROM operator, and its converse the IS NOT DISTINCT
> FROM operator, test whether or not values are identical. IS NOT DISTINCT FROM
> is similar to the = operator, and IS DISTINCT FROM is similar to the !=
> operator, except that NULL values are treated as identical. Therefore, IS NOT
> DISTINCT FROM returns true rather than NULL, and IS DISTINCT FROM returns
> false rather than NULL, when comparing two NULL values. If one of the values
> being compared is NULL and the other is not, IS DISTINCT FROM returns true
> and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM returns false, again instead of returning NULL in
> both cases.
> {quote}
> It would be a nice convenience to have these implemented as kernels in Arrow.
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