Are negative decimal scales supported in the SQL spec? On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Phillip Cloud <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to propose adding support for a negative scale parameter to > decimal types in the parquet spec. Many systems that interact with parquet > support specifying decimals with negative scales: > > 1. Java's BigDecimal > 2. Python's decimal.Decimal > 3. Spark's decimal type > 4. Arrow's Decimal128 object > > Is there any specific reason that this isn't already in the spec? > > I'm happy to do the work to implement this in parquet-cpp and change the > spec as well. > > -Phillip > -- Ryan Blue Software Engineer Netflix
