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Decimal type support is missing

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, sqlalchemy
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start at ParamEscaper.escape_item and reproduce the shown SQLAlchemy query with Decimal('1.0'). Trace the supported parameter types and verify that Decimal values are accepted without the reported ProgrammingError.

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Description

Support for decimal type is missing from ParamEscaper.escape_item

Reproduce:

engine = create_engine(url)
q = text('select * from test where a = :param')
q = q.bindparams(bindparam('param', Decimal('1.0')))
# Raises exc.ProgrammingError "Unsupported object 1.0"
engine.execute(q)
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