From XTDB Data Types | XTDB, I see that double is supported, but it doesn’t look like DECIMAL/NUMERIC. Two questions:
- How are “numeric” values persisted to the underlying arrow tables?
- Are there any plans to support NUMERIC in sql?
Hey @lsowen, thanks for getting in touch! 
Yes, there are definitely plans to support SQL’s NUMERIC, it’s on our backlog at the moment: #3746. Arrow has built-in support for higher (but not arbitrary) precision decimals up to 256 bits of mantissa - out of interest, would this be sufficient for your use case?
James
hi @jarohen,
Yes, decimal256 will cover our needs. In fact, in our current system we are able to use decimal128 for almost everything.
Thanks!
Logan
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Hi again, just wanted to mention that decimals are already now available using the nightly build, and will land in the upcoming 2.0.0-beta7 release: XTDB Data Types | XTDB
Feedback welcome! 
Amazing, I’ll give it a try!
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