On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:25 -0700, Caleb Welton wrote: > 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.
adding it as already-imported module should not be hard I think that moving to saner mappings should at least be discussed and even if it is not in scope for the user-defined function body there is nothing that prevents one from using it for conversion. The Decimal _type_ needs not to be in scope for using Decimal _instances_ maybe this should/could be controlled by a GUC. btw, can we currently use funtions in setting GUC parameters ? if we can , then we could define some python environment initializing function and then do ALTER USER xxx SET pyinit = initialise_python_for_xxx() > -Caleb > > On 5/27/09 2:07 PM, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.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 > -- Hannu Krosing http://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Scalability and Availability Services, Consulting and Training -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
