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diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 1d11112d79..d0eed1ecc4 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -677,6 +677,18 @@ substring filtering. .. _documented at sqlite.org: https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q18 +.. _sqlite-decimal-handling: + +Decimal handling +---------------- + +SQLite has no real decimal internal type. Decimal values are internally +converted to the ``REAL`` data type (8-byte IEEE floating point number), as +explained in the `SQLite datatypes documentation`__, so they don't support +correctly-rounded decimal floating point arithmetic. + +__ https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html#storage_classes_and_datatypes + "Database is locked" errors --------------------------- |