Re: [SQL] how to cast localtimestamp to bigint???

You don't need to use a bigint, read the documentation on data types.

There are a number of different things you can use for a timestamp, here
are a few :

abstime
abstime with timezone
timestamp
timestamp with timezone

Then when you are inserting your data, you can use 'now' as the time.

Eg.
CREATE TABLE pointy_stuff (
PointId integer,
PointName varchar(50),
PointType integer,
CreateTime abstime
);

INSERT INTO pointy_stuff (
PointId,
PointName,
PointType,
CreateTime
) VALUES (
'12345',
'point1',
'1',
'now'
);

I believe abstime is the smallest timestamp, but I could be wrong.

To output the data as a bigint I believe you can use this.

SELECT
PointId,
PointName,
PointType,
date_part('epoch',CreateTime) as unix_ts
FROM
pointy_stuff
;

Hope that helps.

Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am having a table something like this....
>
>CREATE TABLE(PointId integer, PointName varchar(50),PointType integer,
>createtime bigint);
>
>where createtime is the current timestamp when the tuple is inserted.
>
>now how do I insert values into the above table. Is there a way to cast
>timestamp to bigint.
>Also can anyone suggest as to which date function to use -
>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP, timeofday(), now....
>
>
>