Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.
A user reported on discord that they were trying to use DataFusion to query FixedSizeBinary fields stored in parquet?
There is probably a whole project to fully support FixedSizeBinary fields, but initially at least it would be nice to be able to cast them to types that DataFusion has better support for (like Binary)
Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do. A user reported on discord that they were trying to use DataFusion to query FixedSizeBinary fields stored in parquet?
Message link: https://discord.com/channels/885562378132000778/885562378132000781/1083347011497119775
There is probably a whole project to fully support FixedSizeBinary fields, but initially at least it would be nice to be able to cast them to types that DataFusion has better support for (like Binary)
Describe the solution you'd like
@tustvold filed https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/3826 to track adding conversion between binary <-> fixed size binary
Once that is available, I expect this to work
Once there is direct support to cast between Utf8 and FixedSizeBinary, I would also expect this to work
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