If I understand you correctly, I would just do this: 1. Use 3 different columns for the value -- each a native data type. 2. Use `coalesce` to handle sorting 3. When displaying in sqlalchemy, just use a property to proxy displaying the set column (and explicitly work with the correct columns otherwise)
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