HaoYang670 commented on PR #2621:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/2621#issuecomment-1235060450

   Unfortunately, I don't find a definition of which types are numeric in the 
Arrow format: https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Schema.fbs
   
   We have a trait `ArrowNumbericType` in arrow-rs, but there is no doc to 
describe what is it and why we need it. 
   
   In datafusion, the definition of `is_numeric` is here: 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/blob/master/datafusion/expr/src/binary_rule.rs#L392-L414.
 It covers the types in `DataType::is_numeric` and `Float16` and `Decimal128`.
   
   This PR is trying to build a consistent definition of `DataType::is_numeric` 
and `is_numeric` in the Datafusion, so that we could remove the `is_numeric` in 
Datafusion and users will not get confused when choosing between the two.
   
   
   


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