Antoine Pitrou created ARROW-4563: ------------------------------------- Summary: [Python] pa.decimal128 should validate inputs Key: ARROW-4563 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4563 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Bug Components: Python Affects Versions: 0.12.0 Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
The precision shouldn't be higher than 38, but 39 is happily accepted currently: {code:python} >>> ty = pa.decimal128(39, 0) >>> >>> arr = pa.array([2**127], type=ty) >>> >>> arr >>> <pyarrow.lib.Decimal128Array object at 0x7f9b89444138> [ -170141183460469231731687303715884105728 ] {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)