Re: PyGreSQL v3.2 doesn't support INT8 types

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:44:58PM -0200, Ricardo Caesar Lenzi wrote:
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>                         POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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>
> Your name        : RICARDO CAESAR LENZI
> Your email address    : RICARDO@K1.COM.BR
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> System Configuration
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>   Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)      : INTEL PENTIUM
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>   Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)     : LINUX 2.2.16
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>   PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.1.1): PostgreSQL-7.2devel
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>   Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.95.2)        : GCC 2.91.66

This is missing the Python version and build options, if any (like
--with-pymalloc). Please provide these in the next bugreport.

> Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Python handle as string all int8 values from postgresql. This could be
> view when using the aggregate function count() and function nextval
> that returns an int8 value, but in python is represented like string:
>
> >> db.query("select nextval('my_seq')").getresult()
> [('2',)]
>
> >> db.query("select count(*) from films").dictresult()
> [{'count': '120'}]
>
>
> Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
> concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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> see previous.
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>
> If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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> Patch the file src/interfaces/python/pgmodule.c with the
> patch file attached in this mail.
>
>
> Please commit this before the version 7.2.
> Thanks and congratulations for the good job,
> Ricardo.

I've verified all that. The patch does the right thing.

+1 from me

Gerhard
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