I think TO_TIMESTAMP is what you're looking for. Please see
http://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/#to_timestamp.

Kristine Hahn
Sr. Technical Writer
415-497-8107 @krishahn


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Christopher Matta <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need to be able to convert a unix timestamp to a drill timestamp.
>
> I can use the from_unixtime function return what seems like a timestamp, or
> a string formatted correctly, however it seems like it doesn’t return it as
> a string or as a timestamp type:
>
> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=sen11:5181,sen12:5181> select
> from_unixtime(1432912733) from `sys`.`version`;
> +----------------------+
> |        EXPR$0        |
> +----------------------+
> | 2015-05-29 15:18:53  |
> +----------------------+
> 1 row selected (0.134 seconds)
>
> Trying to run date-specific functions on the result:
>
> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=sen11:5181,sen12:5181> select datepart('hour',
> from_unixtime(1432912733)) from `sys`.`version`;
> Error: PARSE ERROR: From line 1, column 8 to line 1, column 50: No
> match found for function signature datepart(<CHARACTER>, <ANY>)
>
> [Error Id: aa906f4b-fa49-4a3d-9a7c-0063c7c6c97b on
> se-node10.se.lab:31010] (state=,code=0)
>
> Trying to cast it to a timestamp returns an error:
>
> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=sen11:5181,sen12:5181> select
> CAST(from_unixtime(1432912733) as TIMESTAMP) from `sys`.`version`;
> Error: SYSTEM ERROR:
> org.apache.drill.exec.exception.SchemaChangeException: Failure while
> trying to materialize incoming schema.  Errors:
>
> Error in expression at index -1.  Error: Missing function
> implementation: [castBIGINT(VAR16CHAR-OPTIONAL)].  Full expression:
> --UNKNOWN EXPRESSION--..
>
> Fragment 0:0
>
> [Error Id: 7e75d4b9-a478-40cd-80b4-fda27815b9ef on
> se-node10.se.lab:31010] (state=,code=0)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Chris [email protected]
> 215-701-3146
> ​
>

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