mihailom-db commented on code in PR #48585:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/48585#discussion_r1812151599


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sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/TypeCoercion.scala:
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@@ -335,12 +343,30 @@ abstract class TypeCoercionBase {
       // Return the result after the widen data types have been found for all 
the children
       if (attrIndex >= children.head.output.length) return castedTypes.toSeq
 
-      // For the attrIndex-th attribute, find the widest type
-      val widenTypeOpt = 
findWiderCommonType(children.map(_.output(attrIndex).dataType))
-      castedTypes.enqueue(widenTypeOpt)
+      val outputType = findOutputType(children, attrIndex)
+      castedTypes.enqueue(outputType)
       getWidestTypes(children, attrIndex + 1, castedTypes)
     }
 
+    /** Given children of the operator, determines the output type of the
+     * `attrIndex`-th attribute
+     */
+    private def findOutputType(children: Seq[LogicalPlan], attrIndex: Int): 
Option[DataType] = {

Review Comment:
   Also, who is to guarantee that we only have strings here, your change 
assumes that all attrIndexed at the same place will have same type, why do we 
then even call widening if that is the case?



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