Problem with sqlite3 and Decimal

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Frank Millman <frank at chagford.com> wrote:
> I noticed one oddity - I am asking sqlite3 to store the value as a string,
> but then I am asking it to perform arithmetic on it.

It's an SQLite3 issue, not a Python one. I used the sqlite3
stand-alone tool to do the same thing:

sqlite> update fmtemp set bal = bal + cast('123.45' as numeric);
sqlite> select bal from fmtemp;
...
5678.7
5802.15
5925.59999999999

And this might be why:

https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html

SQLite doesn't *have* all the SQL data types, and NUMERIC is one of
the ones that isn't available. If you recreate your example using
PostgreSQL, it should work fine.

ChrisA