nevi-me commented on PR #3431:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/3431#issuecomment-1371889652

   > Looks like @nevi-me filed the original ticket -- I wonder if he has any 
additional context?
   
   Hey @alamb @tustvold 
   
   My recollection is that the idea was that if the precision is low enough, 
Parquet can write the file to i32 or i64 physicla types to result in smaller 
files 
(https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/LogicalTypes.md#decimal).
   
   There's 2 scenarios:
   
   * When reading from Arrow > Parquet, should the behaviour to use the 
smallest possible physical type based on precision?
   * When reading from Parquet > Arrow, I suppose Decimal128 makes sense.
   


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