zeroshade commented on issue #43205:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43205#issuecomment-2221402091

   Currently I believe the issue ultimately is that there's no current standard 
for how you could encode an NaN for decimal128/256 values. In most cases 
though, it's not *technically* necessary for Arrow to explicitly support it as 
the values are carried as-is throughout a system. Thus a particular 
system/group of systems/organization could accept a particular bit-pattern for 
decimal128/256 to indicate NaN and it should pass through any Arrow-based or 
Parquet-based libraries unmolested.


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