Hey all, I'm working on a simple serial join implementation and need to be able to compare data across two columns of the same type. Right now the only way I have found to do this is too use ArrayData::GetValues<T>(1) and then iterate over the returned buffer comparing the values. The problem I am having with this approach is that I need the type in the template meaning that when I need to add a row to the result table I need to know the type of each column which would seem like a needlessly large switch statement comparing on the type id and then returning the type. This also seems to only work for fixed length types it would appear to be even more complicated to read string data but I have not tried that yet. Is there an easier way too do this that I am missing? The second issue I am having is that comparisons between types that do not inherit from ctypes seem to not be implemented yet in particular for this use case String type. I would have expected that since tables have a defined schema with the type known there would be some sort of iterator to read over column data?
Thanks, David Sherrier
