On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 05:57:57 -0400 Andrew Lamb <andrewlam...@gmail.com> wrote: > From a Rust perspective, I don't see any significant fundamental difference > between Fixed Length Binary(16) and an Int128. Therefore I also favor using > the existing type rather than adding a new one. > > The fact we already have optimized readers/writers for Fixed Length Binary > means that it would likely be less work to reuse the existing types > rather than support a new i128 type. > > One potential issue with using Fixed Length Binary would be that it is not > consistent with the existing physical types (Int32/Int64/Float/Double, etc) > but I don't see that as a deal breaker.
Especially as we already have FLOAT16 defined as a logical type over FLBA(2). Regards Antoine.
