ericsun2 edited a comment on issue #417: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/417#issuecomment-702440200
> Do you want to store data as a long directly and not use it as a timestamp? Thank you so much for this great question. In Li***n, epoch offset millisecond/second (bigint/long) is the standard way to store time. And in the foreseeable future that might still be the case. The reason behind it is really related to Avro. Before I can push TIMESTAMP data type into any standard data model, neither can I create a new field with TIMESTAMP as type, nor replace the bigint epoch_millis with TIMESTAMP. I understand that this choice probably does not make much sense to Netflix, because who does not want to use TIMESTAMP natively, huh? But sometimes epoch second/millisecond dies hard, this is why @shardulm94 raised this issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
