[PyGreSQL] Binding decimal.Decimal

[Gregory Golberg]

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Gregory Golberg schrieb:
> >> What exactly did you do to get this error? Pygres should play nice 
> >> with Decimals, the only problem is that it treats them are binary floats.
> >>   
> > This happened when I ran a cursor.execute() and used Decimals for 
> > parameters
>
> Ah, ok. This can be fixed quite easily, by adding decimal.Decimal to the 
> list of number types in pgdb._quote.
>   
Is that a read-only field or can it be tweaked by a caller of pgdb?
> But complete support for decimal.Decimal, i.e. returning decimal.Decimal 
> for numeric types, needs some additions to pgmodule.c as well.
>   

This definitely needs doing, though, as using arbitrary-precision math 
with databases is important.

-g
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