westonpace commented on code in PR #15253: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/15253#discussion_r1087264254
########## cpp/src/arrow/compute/exec/exec_plan.h: ########## @@ -121,18 +119,20 @@ class ARROW_EXPORT ExecNode { virtual const char* kind_name() const = 0; - // The number of inputs/outputs expected by this node + // The number of inputs expected by this node int num_inputs() const { return static_cast<int>(inputs_.size()); } - int num_outputs() const { return num_outputs_; } /// This node's predecessors in the exec plan const NodeVector& inputs() const { return inputs_; } + /// True if the plan has no output schema (is a sink) + bool is_sink() const { return !output_schema_; } Review Comment: For the sake of simplicity I'm going to leave this as-is (I'm about to merge this if CI passes). However, if we want to amend this definition (and remove this check) later then I have no problem with that. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org