jose soares wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using Oracle and PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy and I have some troubles > to make the code compatible with both of them. > Numeric sa type returns a different type with oracle and pg. > > For example, in the following table I'm using the Column 'importo' with > type Numeric as: > > > tbl['prestazione'] = Table('prestazione', database.metadata, > Column('id', Integer, Sequence('prestazione_seq'), > nullable=False, primary_key=True), > Column('data', Date, nullable=False), > Column('quantita', Numeric(15,3)), > Column('importo', Numeric(12,3)) > ) > > while oracle returns a float type as: > > prestazione.c.importo = 12.0 > > > postgres returns a Decimal type as: > > prestazione.c.importo = Decimal("0.000") > > and I have difficulties to make code compatible, because sometimes the > program raises a TypeError error as: > > TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'Decimal' and 'float' > > Is there some w.a. to avoid this thing?
if you're on 0.6 (or even 0.5 for that matter) the Numeric type should be returning Decimal in all cases from result sets. > > thank you, > > j > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalch...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.