edubraqd opened a new pull request, #24901:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/24901

   ## Which issue does this PR close?
   
   - Closes #24900.
   
   ## Rationale for this change
   
   `TDigest::merge_sorted_f64` and `TDigest::merge_digests` allocated the 
compressed centroid list with `Vec::with_capacity(max_size)`. `max_size` is the 
user supplied `centroids` argument of `approx_percentile_cont`, so 
`approx_percentile_cont(x, 0.5, 9223372036854775807)` panicked with "capacity 
overflow" (and a merely huge value would abort on allocation failure).
   
   ## What changes are included in this PR?
   
   The compressed digest never holds more centroids than the inputs being 
merged, so the preallocation is now `max_size.min(<input size>)` in both 
places. Behaviour for ordinary `max_size` values is unchanged.
   
   ## Are these changes tested?
   
   Yes. `test_huge_max_size_does_not_preallocate` builds a digest with 
`max_size = usize::MAX`, merges values and digests into it, and checks the 
estimates; it used to panic.
   
   ## Are there any user-facing changes?
   
   `approx_percentile_cont` with a very large `centroids` argument returns a 
result instead of panicking.
   


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