Parquet silently discards decimal values if they do not fit in declared type
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Description
If I declare a schema with a DecimalType(7,2) and I try and write a value that will not fit, such as 123,456.00 and then read it back, I get a null value i.e. the data is silently discarded.
I have written up a full example to demonstrate this, here:
https://github.com/andygrove/spark-parquet-decimal-bug
**Environment**: Ubuntu 15.10
**Reporter**: [Andy Grove](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=andygrove) / @andygrove
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-578](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-578). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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