Re: [PATCH] plpythonu datatype conversion improvements

On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:53:31 Caleb Welton wrote:
> Previously numeric->string->PyFloat_FromString, now
> numeric->double->PyFloat_FromDouble, which makes use of postgres
> numeric->double routines rather than python string->double routines, and it
> is conceivable that there are precision variations between the two.  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.