https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/cpp/src/parquet/arrow/reader.cc#L1169
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:47 PM Korry Douglas <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I'm afraid our support of decimals (beyond opaquely handling
> > fixed-len-byte-array data) so far in the C++ library is limited to
> > what can be represented with Decimal128 -- there are quite a few
> > Decimal128 functions available in the codebase. The reason we haven't
> > done more is purely a function of the needs of the developers involved
> > in the project. Would you be able to submit some pull requests to add
> > the features you need?
>
> That’s a completely fair question :-)
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> I would be happy to, but I don’t understand the codebase well enough at this
> point; particularly the division between arrow and parquet.
>
> Can you point me to the function where you turn an FLBA into a Decimal128?
> That might get me going…
>
>
> — Korry
>
> Thanks again for such a quick response.
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