Hi, As discussed on the mailing list [1] I would like to add a "bit width" field to our Decimal metadata to allow for supporting different Decimal physical sizes other than 128-bit (where 32- and 64-bit representations are relatively common) without requiring that we add a new value to the Type enum on Schema.fbs, which would be rather unsightly.
The PR with the new field is at [2]. We may make modifications to the language in comments but this vote is whether to accept the addition of this field. For clarity, this change is non-breaking and fully backwards compatible. The field ensures that current libraries will be able to determine if a future library version has sent data that uses a bit width other than 128. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. [ ] +1 Accept addition of Decimal::bitWidth Flatbuffers field [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Do not accept addition because... [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r97eecb373f5ea5f1c65a6f061c75af1ef7ac460f722f4c98a5c70dc2%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E [2]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7321
