Merge pull request #1 from SusmithBarigidad/SusmithBarigidad-patch-1

 Support min/max on ArrowStringArray pandas-dev#42597

Author: SusmithBarigidad

pandas/core/arrays/string_arrow.py

@@ -379,6 +379,20 @@ def _reduce(self, name: str, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs):
             return getattr(self, name)(skipna=skipna)
 
         raise TypeError(f"Cannot perform reduction '{name}' with string dtype")
+        
+    def min(self, axis=None, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs) -> Scalar:
+        nv.validate_min((), kwargs)
+        result = masked_reductions.min(
+            values=self.to_numpy(), mask=self.isna(), skipna=skipna
+        )
+        return self._wrap_reduction_result(axis, result)
+
+    def max(self, axis=None, skipna: bool = True, **kwargs) -> Scalar:
+        nv.validate_max((), kwargs)
+        result = masked_reductions.max(
+            values=self.to_numpy(), mask=self.isna(), skipna=skipna
+        )
+        return self._wrap_reduction_result(axis, result)
 
     @property
     def nbytes(self) -> int: