Issues

• Share Variant path parsing across functions and support Spark-style rooted paths

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#142 · Filter by author getChan opened on Nov 1, 2026

• Release plan: Spark 4.2 Variant parity

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#141 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Support the recursive argument of variant_explode and variant_explode_outer

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#139 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_from_arrays and variant_from_entries

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#138 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_pick

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#137 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_strip_nulls

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#136 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_array_append and try_variant_array_append

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#135 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_set and try_variant_set

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#134 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add Spark variant_insert and try_variant_insert

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#133 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• variant_get should not support Interval type hint

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#132 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 30, 2026

• Add format to json back to readme

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#130 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 29, 2026

• Publish user documentation on GitHub Pages

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#125 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 29, 2026

• [papercut] Find some way to avoid modifing datafusion.execution.parquet.skip_metadata

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#115 · Filter by author alamb opened on Oct 28, 2026
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• Support CAST AS VARIANT with structs and arrays

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#112 · Filter by author alamb opened on Oct 28, 2026
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• Support explicit Variant shredding when writing Parquet

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#104 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 27, 2026
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• Add differential property tests for Spark and datafusion-variant

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#99 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Oct 23, 2026

• Add crate-level documentation and a complete function reference

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#81 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Sep 28, 2026
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• Close the function compatibility gaps with Apache Spark

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#71 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Sep 24, 2026

• Establish Spark Variant contract coverage

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#70 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Sep 24, 2026

• Epic: Apache Spark Variant compatibility

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#69 · Filter by author sdf-jkl opened on Sep 24, 2026
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• epic: Measure performance

  datafusion-contrib/datafusion-variant#19 · Filter by author friendlymatthew opened on Nov 18, 2025
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