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> Variant decoding rejects spec-valid decimals
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-60442
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-60442
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: PySpark, SQL
>    Affects Versions: 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.1.3, 4.0.4
>            Reporter: Qiegang Long
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>
> h3. Problem
> Spark rejects a variant decimal as {{MALFORMED_VARIANT}} when its scale is 
> larger than the max precision of its physical type (9 for decimal4, 18 for 
> decimal8):
> {code:java} 
> // VariantUtil.checkDecimal
> if (d.precision() > maxPrecision || d.scale() > maxPrecision) throw 
> malformedVariant(); {code}
> The [Variant 
> spec|https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/VariantEncoding.md] 
> only ties precision to the physical type. All three decimal types store a "1 
> byte scale in range [0, 38]". The physical type only sets the size of the 
> unscaled integer; the scale just places the decimal point.
> h3. Examples
> The same value, 1.234E-10 (unscaled 1234, scale 13, precision 4), in 
> different physical types:
> {noformat}
> Encoding            Value bytes (hex)               Value       Spark today
> decimal8, scale 13  24 0D D2 04 00 00 00 00 00 00   1.234E-10   
> 0.0000000001234
> decimal4, scale 13  20 0D D2 04 00 00               1.234E-10   
> MALFORMED_VARIANT
> decimal8, scale 25  24 19 D2 04 00 00 00 00 00 00   1.234E-22   
> MALFORMED_VARIANT
> {noformat}
> The first two rows are the same value, but only the decimal8 encoding is 
> accepted.
> h3. Impact
> parquet-java 1.17.0+ ([PR 
> #3335|https://github.com/apache/parquet-java/pull/3335]) picks the decimal 
> type by precision only, so it writes 1.234E-10 as decimal4 with scale 13. 
> Spark fails on any expression that decodes such a field ({{to_json}}, 
> {{variant_get}}, {{cast}}, {{schema_of_variant}}). Data written only by Spark 
> is not affected, because Spark's writer picks the type by both scale and 
> precision.



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