[ARROW-14143] [IR] [C++] Add explicit cast node to IR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: C++, Compute IR
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29732
• Assignee: Phillip Cloud
• Reporter: Phillip Cloud
• Created: 27/Sep/21 11:24
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:37
• Resolved: 04/Oct/21 17:53

Description

The DuckDB folks have requested that CAST be added as its own Expression variant.

CAST it isn't well modeled as a function call due to it requiring a type argument, which can't be modeled as an Expression.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11244