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Summary

  • retain exact NUMERIC/DECIMAL database type provenance when ingestion maps it to SLayer's coarser INT/DOUBLE logical types
  • carry that provenance through typed planning so inferred aggregate metadata does not emit a lossy physical cast
  • preserve existing cast behavior for ordinary floating-point columns and explicit output type overrides
  • add executable DuckDB regressions for direct, trailing-window, partitioned, cross-model, and explicit-cast paths

Closes #364.

Why

DuckDB natively evaluates the issue's DECIMAL(18,2) sum as exact DECIMAL(38,2) value 90071992547409.93. Current main changes it to 90071992547409.94 by rendering CAST(SUM(amount) AS DOUBLE) from inferred metadata.

The fix keeps SLayer's existing public DOUBLE classification and does not add a new numeric type system. It retains only the physical provenance that the planner needs to distinguish an exact database value from an ordinary floating-point source. Explicit type: DOUBLE still renders the requested cast.

Validation

  • ruff 0.15.6 check slayer/ tests/ — passed
  • full non-integration suite — 15,532 tests passed across the complete run plus an isolated retry of the one test whose poetry executable was missing from this host; 100 expected skips
  • test_integration.py, test_integration_duckdb.py, test_integration_postgres.py, and the new decimal regression — 246 passed
  • affected planner/generator/ingestion/dialect suites — 967 passed
  • two notebook integrations initially missing the virtualenv CLI from PATH — 2 passed after rerun with the installed slayer command exposed

The broad integration discovery run additionally produced 470 passes and 186 expected skips. Docker-only Metabase tests could not start because no Docker daemon is running, and Flight JDBC tests could not start because this host's JPype installation resolves the JDK home directory instead of libjvm.dylib; neither unavailable fixture touches this change.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Inferred aggregates over NUMERIC and DECIMAL columns now preserve native exact precision instead of converting through floating point.
    • Supports standard, windowed, partitioned, cross-model, and wrapped ClickHouse decimal queries.
    • SQLite continues using floating-point casts because it lacks native exact-decimal storage.
    • Explicitly configured DOUBLE measures continue returning floating-point values.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified exact numeric type inference and preservation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for high-precision aggregates and database type metadata.

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The change preserves exact NUMERIC and DECIMAL aggregate values on dialects with native exact-decimal support. It normalizes ClickHouse metadata, carries preservation state through planning, keeps SQLite casts, and adds regression coverage and specifications.

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Decimal precision preservation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize exact numeric metadata
slayer/engine/introspect_utils.py, slayer/engine/ingestion.py, slayer/core/models.py, slayer/engine/prebound.py, tests/test_ingestion*.py
Shared detection covers DECIMAL, NUMERIC, ClickHouse Decimal variants, and BigQuery BIGNUMERIC. ClickHouse wrappers are removed before db_type is stored.
Mark inferred measures for native values
slayer/engine/stage_planner.py, slayer/engine/planning.py, openspec/changes/preserve-inferred-decimal-precision/*
Planning carries preserve_native_type through measure creation, regrouping, remapping, and slot registration.
Apply dialect-aware cast control
slayer/engine/planned.py, slayer/sql/dialects/*, slayer/sql/generator.py, tests/test_dev1777_emit_step_cte.py
Native-type preservation suppresses inferred casts on supported dialects. SQLite keeps the inferred floating-point cast.
Validate decimal preservation
tests/test_native_type_preservation.py, tests/integration/test_decimal_aggregate_precision.py, tests/integration/test_integration_clickhouse.py, docs/concepts/models.md
Tests cover detection, ClickHouse metadata, direct, windowed, partitioned, joined, cross-model, explicit DOUBLE, and SQLite behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0ac15

This change preserves native decimal aggregates, but non-native dialects may still omit an expected inferred integer cast, which can alter aggregate result semantics. The SQLite regression also does not verify the aggregate value, so this should be resolved before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Database
  participant Ingestion
  participant StagePlanner
  participant ValueRegistry
  participant SQLGenerator
  Database->>Ingestion: expose exact numeric type
  Ingestion->>StagePlanner: provide logical type and normalized db_type
  StagePlanner->>ValueRegistry: register preserve_native_type
  ValueRegistry->>SQLGenerator: provide planned slot
  SQLGenerator-->>Database: emit native aggregate or dialect-specific cast
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…rap ClickHouse wrapper text in the info-schema fallback, clear Sonar S107/S9073

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Use keyword arguments for _wrap_cast_for_type.

The production guideline requires keyword arguments for functions with more than one parameter. Rewrite these calls as _wrap_cast_for_type(expr=..., dt=...).

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