[Zope-DB] Floating point errors

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-01-23 14:35, siribu wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have got a problem:
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> accessing an Oracle 10g database, whenever I ask for floats from a Zope Z SQL 
> method, they are automatically converted to integers, simply dropping the 
> decimal numbers.
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> I am using Zope 2.10.4-final with Python 2.4.4 running on a Linux2 OS. 
> Furthermore, I am using UnixODBC with Easysoftâ€^(TM)s ODBC-Oracle driver together 
> with eGenix *mxODBC Zope DA*.

There's a connection option " Leave scale 0 floats untouched ?" to switch
this off.

The truncation to integers is done because some database drivers always
return numbers as floats - even integers. Zope would then display these
as floats (without additional formatting), which may not look right to
the user.

> Running iSQL on the server or even utilizing the mxODBC Zope DA driver directly 
> in Python works well without problems.  
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> The error logs for the ODBC contained no sign or errors. Neither did I get any 
> response when I ran Event Log Manager in Zope. I could not find anything in syslog.
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> Any clues on how to solve this?

See above: just switch on the option in the connection properties.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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