DATE

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The DATE data type stores a year, month, and day.

Syntax

A constant value of type DATE can be expressed using an interpreted literal, or a string literal annotated with type DATE or coerced to type DATE.

The string format for dates is YYYY-MM-DD. For example: DATE '2016-12-23'.

CockroachDB also supports using uninterpreted string literals in contexts where a DATE value is otherwise expected.

Size

A DATE column supports values up to 8 bytes in width, but the total storage size is likely to be larger due to CockroachDB metadata.

Examples

> CREATE TABLE dates (a DATE PRIMARY KEY, b INT);

> SHOW COLUMNS FROM dates;
+-------+------+-------+---------+
| Field | Type | Null  | Default |
+-------+------+-------+---------+
| a     | DATE | false | NULL    |
| b     | INT  | true  | NULL    |
+-------+------+-------+---------+
> -- explicitly typed DATE literal
> INSERT INTO dates VALUES (DATE '2016-03-26', 12345);

> -- string literal implicitly typed as DATE
> INSERT INTO dates VALUES ('2016-03-27', 12345);

> SELECT * FROM dates;
+---------------------------+-------+
|             a             |   b   |
+---------------------------+-------+
| 2016-03-26 00:00:00+00:00 | 12345 |
| 2016-03-27 00:00:00+00:00 | 12345 |
+---------------------------+-------+

Supported Casting & Conversion

DATE values can be cast to any of the following data types:

Type Details
INT Converts to number of days since the Unix epoch (Jan. 1, 1970). This is a CockroachDB experimental feature which may be changed without notice.
DECIMAL Converts to number of days since the Unix epoch (Jan. 1, 1970). This is a CockroachDB experimental feature which may be changed without notice.
FLOAT Converts to number of days since the Unix epoch (Jan. 1, 1970). This is a CockroachDB experimental feature which may be changed without notice.
TIMESTAMP Sets the time to 00:00 (midnight) in the resulting timestamp
STRING ––
Note:
Because the SERIAL data type represents values automatically generated by CockroachDB to uniquely identify rows, you cannot meaningfully cast other data types as SERIAL values.

See Also

Data Types


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