The potential introduction of the primitive type INT128 came up related to the Interval type discussions. I think it is an independent topic, so let me start a new thread about it.
Maybe, I'm too Java oriented but I cannot see much difference between FLBA[16] and a new primitive containing 16 bytes. We can define any byte ordering for a specific logical type on top of FLBA[16] as well as any value ordering related to that type. We may also easily extend int specific encodings to FLBA, then it is up to the implementation to choose that encoding for specific logical types. >From implementation point of view, in Java, since we don't have a 16 byte primitive, we would represent INT128 the same way as we do in the case of FLBA[16]. Other languages choose whatever in-memory representation they want to handle FLBA[16] or especially the related logical type. What do you think? Cheers, Gabor
