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David Li commented on ARROW-13993: ---------------------------------- See ARROW-15717. > [C++] Hash aggregate function that returns value from first row in group > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: ARROW-13993 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13993 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++ > Reporter: Ian Cook > Assignee: Dhruv Vats > Priority: Major > Labels: good-second-issue, kernel, pull-request-available > Fix For: 8.0.0 > > Time Spent: 5h 40m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > It would be nice to have a hash aggregate function that returns the first > value of a column within each hash group. > If row order within groups is non-deterministic, then effectively this would > return one arbitrary value. This is a very computationally cheap operation. > This can be quite useful when querying a non-normalized table. For example if > you have a table with a {{country}} column and also a {{country_abbr}} column > and you want to group by either/both of those columns but return the values > from both columns, you could do > {code:java} > SELECT country, country_abbr FROM table GROUP BY country, country_abbr{code} > but it would be more efficient to do > {code:java} > SELECT country, first(country_abbr) FROM table GROUP BY country{code} > because then the engine does not need to scan all the values of the > {{country_abbr}} column. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001)