CurtHagenlocher commented on issue #42069: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/42069#issuecomment-2159131626
> What would be the benefit of this over the current Union types? Is it just to alleviate the need to specify all the types up front? That's part of it, yes, but many sources also support variants containing semistructured types where you could conceivably need a combinatorial explosion of unions to reflect all the data. (See [https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/data-types-semistructured](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/data-types-semistructured), for instance.) -- 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
