aws / aws/amazon-redshift-python-driver
fetch_dataframe returning float types incorrectly
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Description
The **fetch_dataframe** method provided by the Redshift connector appears to return more decimal places than expected. For example, 0.074 becomes 0.07400000095367, likely due to how Redshift stores and retrieves floating-point or decimal values with higher precision than originally intended.
The first image shows what was returned by the **fetch_dataframe** method and although the revenue growth column is exactly what we expected (exact user inputs without more decimal places), when we actually take a look at one of the values specifically (second one in this case), we get the value in the second image. This suggests that fetch_dataframe is already returning extra decimal places but just not viewable when printing the whole dataframe. For now, we have identified that this is a problem for the datatypes **REAL** and **DOUBLE PRECISION** on the redshift connector.


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