[ARROW-13390] [C++] Improve type support for 'coalesce' kernel

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: kernel pull-request-available types
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29061
• Assignee: David Li
• Reporter: David Li
• Created: 19/Jul/21 21:22
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:32
• Resolved: 29/Sep/21 08:04

Description

• Direct support for dictionaries (unifying dictionaries or building a new dictionary as necessary)
• Fixed-length list
• Union, struct, list, other variable-width types

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: ARROW-13931 [C++] Coalesce kernel missing support for list/struct types
• is related to: ARROW-13946 [C++] choose kernel missing support for list/struct types
• is related to: ARROW-13951 [C++] replace_with_mask support missing for list/fixed_size_list/large_list/struct
• is related to: ARROW-14105 [C++] Reconcile type promotion rules between if_else, case_when, coalesce, select
• is related to: ARROW-13358 [C++] Extend type support for if_else kernel
• is related to: ARROW-14167 [C++] Support dictionaries directly in coalesce kernel
• is related to: ARROW-14172 [C++] Improve type support for 'replace_with_mask' kernel
• relates to: ARROW-13136 [C++] Add a "coalesce" variadic scalar kernel
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11080