Github user BryanCutler commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18378
> How about applying astype only for primitive types?
Yeah, that might work since `astype` takes a dict you probably don't need
to specify all the columns. It does seem like it makes a deep copy of the data
that is being casted, so still might have an impact on performance.
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