[ARROW-1449] Implement Decimal using only Int128

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: C++, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15464
• Assignee: Phillip Cloud
• Reporter: Phillip Cloud
• Created: 02/Sep/17 16:19
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:14
• Resolved: 03/Sep/17 22:29

Description

This is for compatibility with the java implementation which uses only 16 byte arrays to represent Decimal values.