feat(datafusion-7181): enable slicing of rows #4817
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Which issue does this PR close?
This is a change required in order to slice the row cursor in the cascaded sort order.
precursor for apache/datafusion#7181
Rationale for this change
During the cascaded merge, we may yield partial record batch (a.k.a. partial cursors) from a given merge node (in the cascade tree). As such, the cursor would need to be sliced as described here.
What changes are included in this PR?
Slicing the cursor.
Are there any user-facing changes?
No breaking changes.
Only a new API
.slice()
method, including documentation.