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Loss of precision on Float fields

See original GitHub issue

Bug description

I have a price Float @default(0) field and while the value stored in the database row (postgres) is 0.69 the value returned by the prisma client is 0.6900000000000001 (this is a console.log on the output of .findMany)

Environment & setup

OS: ArchLinux
Database: PostgreSQL
Prisma version: 2.1.3
Node.js version: 12.17

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

esistgutcommented, Jul 22, 2020

Thank you, I deployed it to our staging environment. Everything seems to be ok. Should I find anything wrong I’ll keep you posted.

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pimeyscommented, Jul 21, 2020

Fix is done. Merging when reviewed and tests are green. You can read what was the issue from the PR.

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