import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extensions DEC2FLOAT = psycopg2.extensions.new_type( psycopg2._psycopg.DECIMAL.values, 'DEC2FLOAT', psycopg2.extensions.FLOAT) psycopg2.extensions.register_type(DEC2FLOAT) o = psycopg2.connect("dbname=test") c = o.cursor() c.execute("SELECT NULL::decimal(10,2)") n = c.fetchone()[0] print(n, type(n))