INT

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CockroachDB supports various signed integer data types.

Names and Aliases

Syntax

A constant value of type INT can be entered as a numeric literal. For example: 42, -1234, or 0xCAFE.

Size

The different integer types place different constraints on the range of allowable values, but all integers are stored in the same way regardless of type. Smaller values take up less space than larger ones (based on the numeric value, not the data type).

You can use the BIT(n) type, with n from 1 to 64, to constrain integers based on their corresponding binary values. For example, BIT(5) would allow 31 because it corresponds to the five-digit binary integer 11111, but would not allow 32 because it corresponds to the six-digit binary integer 100000, which is 1 bit too long. See the example below for a demonstration.

Examples

> CREATE TABLE ints (a INT PRIMARY KEY, b SMALLINT, c BIT(5));

> SHOW COLUMNS FROM ints;

+-------+----------+-------+---------+-------------+
| Field |   Type   | Null  | Default |   Indices   |
+-------+----------+-------+---------+-------------+
| a     | INT      | false | NULL    | {"primary"} |
| b     | SMALLINT | true  | NULL    | {}          |
| c     | BIT(5)   | true  | NULL    | {}          |
+-------+----------+-------+---------+-------------+
(3 rows)

> INSERT INTO ints VALUES (1, 32, 32);

pq: bit string too long for type BIT(5) (column "c")

> INSERT INTO ints VALUES (1, 32, 31);

INSERT 1

> SELECT * FROM ints;

+---+----+----+
| a | b  | c  |
+---+----+----+
| 1 | 32 | 31 |
+---+----+----+
(1 row)

Supported Casting & Conversion

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

See Also

Data Types

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