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[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-2009) [Format] Support 32- and 64-bit decimals in IPC messages

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Robert Fox commented on ARROW-2009:
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+1 to optimize decimal storage.  I use decimal a lot to store monetary values (no tolerance for lost precision).  All of my arrow files/streams are huge!  I end up using compression more than I would like.

> [Format] Support 32- and 64-bit decimals in IPC messages
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-2009
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2009
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Format
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Priority: Major
>
> Some systems may wish to send 32- or 64-bit decimal values on the wire without any conversions. Computations engines using Arrow may choose to promote these to 128-bit right away on receipt, but it would be useful to be enable systems with native handling of the smaller-size types to be able to send data via Arrow streams / IPC without extra serialization



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