[ARROW-10789] [Rust][DataFusion] Make TableProvider dynamically typed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Rust, Rust - DataFusion
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26729
• Assignee: Rémi Dettai
• Reporter: Rémi Dettai
• Created: 02/Dec/20 15:30
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:15
• Resolved: 02/Dec/20 19:34

Description

The TableProvider trait can be used to provide custom datasources to the query plan. It can be useful for usecases like plan serialization to be able to downcast to the concrete implementation, the same way it is done for the ExecutionPlan trait.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8819