On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:31:12 +0100 Raphael Taylor-Davies <r.taylordav...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: > I guess one potential advantage of an INT128 type would be that it could > make use of the DELTA_BINARY_PACKED encoding, which could yield fairly > significant savings for such large integers.
Well, we could allow DELTA_BINARY_PACKED to be used on FLBA(16) if that's a concern. Regardless of the physical type, a 128-bit implementation of DELTA_BINARY_PACKED might be annoying to write if the target language does not have a 128-bit integer type. Regards Antoine.
