Rhhh Lin <ruanline...@hotmail.com> 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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
