| From: | Caleb Welton <cwelton(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] plpythonu datatype conversion improvements |
| Date: | 2009-05-27 21:25:58 |
| Message-ID: | C642FDF6.2132%cwelton@greenplum.com |
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Yes, in Python >= 2.4 there is the Decimal datatype.
However, unlike the other mappings employed by plpythonu, Decimal requires an import statement to be in scope.
-Caleb
On 5/27/09 2:07 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:53:31 Caleb Welton wrote:
>> ... My own
>> feeling on the matter is that PyFloat is the wrong mapping for numeric, but
>> I didn't want to muddy this patch by changing that.
> Yeah, that one had me wondering for a while as well, but as you say it is
> better to address that separately.
That was making me itch as well, in my very cursory look at the patch.
Does Python have a saner mapping for it?
regards, tom lane
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