Uwe L. Korn created ARROW-1734:
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             Summary: C++/Python: Add cast function on Column-level
                 Key: ARROW-1734
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1734
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: C++, Python
            Reporter: Uwe L. Korn
            Assignee: Uwe L. Korn


Add a {{Cast}} function on a column level that casts all underlying arrays.

There are three possible options we could implement:

 * Make a special cast implementation that takes a ChunkedArray and returns a 
simple Array
 * Make a universal implementation that takes a ChunkedArray and applies a 
Kernel on each Array, returning a ChunkedArray with the same chunking
 * Make a universal implementation that takes a ChunkedArray and applies a 
Kernel on each Array, returning a plain Array with no chunking



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