himadripal commented on code in PR #6836:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/6836#discussion_r1870625712


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arrow-cast/src/cast/decimal.rs:
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@@ -155,28 +163,24 @@ where
     T: DecimalType,
     T::Native: DecimalCast + ArrowNativeTypeOp,
 {
-    let array: PrimitiveArray<T> = match input_scale.cmp(&output_scale) {
-        Ordering::Equal => {
-            // the scale doesn't change, the native value don't need to be 
changed
-            array.clone()
-        }
-        Ordering::Greater => convert_to_smaller_scale_decimal::<T, T>(
-            array,
-            input_scale,
-            output_precision,
-            output_scale,
-            cast_options,
-        )?,
-        Ordering::Less => {
-            // input_scale < output_scale
+    let array: PrimitiveArray<T> = if input_scale <= output_scale {
+            // input_scale <= output_scale
+            // the scale doesn't change, but precision may change and cause 
overflow

Review Comment:
   lets assume, we are converting this  `12345` from (5, 3) to (6,3), then it 
needs to be `123450` - if we do array.clone() as per original code- wondering 
how it will add the 0 at the end.
   



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