knex postgres returns strings for numeric/decimal values

Question

I have a table with column

table.decimal('some_column', 30,15) which on postgres is numeric(30,15)

When I run a knex.raw('select some_column from some_table') from node, the response I get in rows is like:

some_column: "5.000000000000000"
some_column: "10.000000000000000"

What really pointed me to this is that I do something like firstValue>lastValue I end up with a true response so that makes me think that these are returned as strings and not as numbers.

Any way to override this behavior?

Answer 1

For an explanation about why and the possible solutions

check this great answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/39176670/7668448

You get the problem and the possible solutions.

Use of pg-types

Check my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57210469/7668448

 resume:

All built in types:

const typesBuiltins = {
    BOOL: 16,
    BYTEA: 17,
    CHAR: 18,
    INT8: 20,
    INT2: 21,
    INT4: 23,
    REGPROC: 24,
    TEXT: 25,
    OID: 26,
    TID: 27,
    XID: 28,
    CID: 29,
    JSON: 114,
    XML: 142,
    PG_NODE_TREE: 194,
    SMGR: 210,
    PATH: 602,
    POLYGON: 604,
    CIDR: 650,
    FLOAT4: 700,
    FLOAT8: 701,
    ABSTIME: 702,
    RELTIME: 703,
    TINTERVAL: 704,
    CIRCLE: 718,
    MACADDR8: 774,
    MONEY: 790,
    MACADDR: 829,
    INET: 869,
    ACLITEM: 1033,
    BPCHAR: 1042,
    VARCHAR: 1043,
    DATE: 1082,
    TIME: 1083,
    TIMESTAMP: 1114,
    TIMESTAMPTZ: 1184,
    INTERVAL: 1186,
    TIMETZ: 1266,
    BIT: 1560,
    VARBIT: 1562,
    NUMERIC: 1700,
    REFCURSOR: 1790,
    REGPROCEDURE: 2202,
    REGOPER: 2203,
    REGOPERATOR: 2204,
    REGCLASS: 2205,
    REGTYPE: 2206,
    UUID: 2950,
    TXID_SNAPSHOT: 2970,
    PG_LSN: 3220,
    PG_NDISTINCT: 3361,
    PG_DEPENDENCIES: 3402,
    TSVECTOR: 3614,
    TSQUERY: 3615,
    GTSVECTOR: 3642,
    REGCONFIG: 3734,
    REGDICTIONARY: 3769,
    JSONB: 3802,
    REGNAMESPACE: 4089,
    REGROLE: 4096
};

Which you can find here https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-types/blob/master/lib/builtins.js

Use example:

const pg = require('pg');

pg.types.setTypeParser(pg.types.builtins.INT8, (value: string) => {
   return parseInt(value);
});

pg.types.setTypeParser(pg.types.builtins.FLOAT8, (value: string) => {
    return parseFloat(value);
});

pg.types.setTypeParser(pg.types.builtins.NUMERIC, (value: string) => {
    return parseFloat(value);
});