Firebird: Floating Points Values infinities

[Former user]

If I try to write an infinite floating point value to the database, I get an error.

The problem traces to sqlalchemly.dialects.firebird.kinterbasdb._FBNumeric_kinterbasdb which converts the floating point to a string before passing it off to the database. Firebird does not accept 'inf' or '-inf' as valid pointing point values.

I don't know why the code converts stuff to strings. A monkey patch to make it stop doing that seems to make things work fine for me.

[Mike Bayer]

The string conversion is to accept Python Decimal objects.

The check is now narrowed down to Decimal only, more expensive check but there you go.

Thanks for the test case !

6e023b16653b0a2e355a1858d57ff01d38ab05dc in 0.7, diff:@a40124fcb25cc23fa8873c8e2dc3e558672b5439:5d3b203f64764cf704b2d78496039f9fbcbacbca in 0.6

[Mike Bayer]

Removing milestone: 0.6.6 (automated comment)