No and no.  This filter will not be used for predicate pushdown now or in
8.0.0.  It could possibly come after 8.0.0.  If parquet stores statistics
for each column of a struct array (don't know offhand if they do) then we
should create a JIRA to expose this.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 11:01 AM Partha Dutta <[email protected]> wrote:

> That works! Thanks. Do you know off hand if this filter would be used in a
> predicate pushdown for a parquet dataset? Or would it be possibly coming in
> version 8.0.0?
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:49 PM Weston Pace <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The second argument to `call_function` should be a list (the args to
>> the function).  Since `arr3` is iterable it is interpreting it as a
>> list of args and trying to treat each row as an argument to your call
>> (this is the reason it thinks you have 3 arguments).  This should
>> work:
>>
>>     pc.call_function("struct_field", [arr3],
>> pc.StructFieldOptions(indices=[0]))
>>
>> Unfortunately, that evaluates the function immediately.  If you want
>> to create an expression then you need some way to create a call and I
>> don't actually know how to do that.  I can do something a little
>> hackish:
>>
>> table = pa.Table.from_pydict({'values': arr3})
>> dataset = ds.dataset(table)
>> sf_call = ds.field('')._call('struct_field', [ds.field('values')],
>> pc.StructFieldOptions(indices=[0]))
>> dataset.to_table(filter=sf_call < 200)
>>
>> However, I suspect there is probably a better way to create a call
>> object than `ds.field('')._call(...)`
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:09 AM Partha Dutta <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to use the compute function struct_field in order to create
>> an expression for dataset filtering. But running into an error. This is the
>> code snippet:
>> >
>> > arr1 = pa.array([100, 200, 300])
>> > arr2 = pa.array([400, 500, 600])
>> > arr3 = pa.StructArray.from_arrays([arr1, arr2], ["one", "two"])
>> > e = pc.call_function("struct_field", arr3,
>> pc.StructFieldOptions(indices=[0])) > 200
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> >   File "pyarrow/_compute.pyx", line 531, in
>> pyarrow._compute.call_function
>> >   File "pyarrow/_compute.pyx", line 330, in
>> pyarrow._compute.Function.call
>> >   File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 143, in
>> pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
>> >   File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 99, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
>> > pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Function 'struct_field' accepts 1 arguments
>> but attempted to look up kernel(s) with 3
>> >
>> > If I try to exclude the options, I get
>> > pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Function 'struct_field' cannot be called
>> without options
>> >
>> > Any advice? I am using pyarrow 7.0.0
>> > --
>> > Partha Dutta
>> > [email protected]
>>
>
>
> --
> Partha Dutta
> [email protected]
>

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