huberylee commented on issue #43205:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43205#issuecomment-2224297057

   PostgreSQL supports decimal NaN by using a sign bit in its internal decimal 
format to mark decimal NaN values.
   
   > In addition to ordinary numeric values, the numeric type has several 
special values:
   > Infinity
   > -Infinity
   > NaN
   
   
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL
   
   We can use a similar method as with floating point types to represent NaN 
values by using an unused value at a specific precision. For details, refer to: 
https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/datarepresentation.html
   


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