Thanks for the explanation Kevin!

Regards,

Ruan


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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
on behalf of K. Brannen <[email protected]>
Sent: 03 November 2017 14:35
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GENERAL]

Rhhh Lin <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Also, as a sidenote - can someone please expand on why one (I was not 
> involved in the creation of this DB/schema definition) would choose to have 
> the definition of the timestamp column as a bigint in this case?

Because the time value you need to hold exceeds 32 bits. :)

Based on your example, you're storing epoch in milliseconds, which exceeds 
2^32, so you have to use bigint. Check out the size of the int and bigint data 
types in the docs.

HTH,
Kevin


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