On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 10:03:35 -0700 Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't have a problem with FLBA(10) but I > > would hope > > we could do some better encoding tricks with an Int128 > > Yes, hopefully we can get some better integer encodings in place that > would apply across the board.
Adding a new physical type just to have "better encodings" does not make sense, IMHO. Instead, you can define or generalize those encodings to also apply to FLBA(N) (at least for some values of N). That would for example benefit DECIMAL128 columns. That's what we did for BYTE_STREAM_SPLIT. Regards Antoine.
