A 4-byte integer data type used in CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE statements.

Syntax:

In the column definition of a CREATE TABLE statement:

column_name INT

Range: -2147483648 .. 2147483647. There is no UNSIGNED subtype.

Conversions: Impala automatically converts to a larger integer type (BIGINT) or a floating-point type (FLOAT or DOUBLE) automatically. Use CAST() to convert to TINYINT, SMALLINT, STRING, or TIMESTAMP. Casting an integer or floating-point value N to TIMESTAMP produces a value that is N seconds past the start of the epoch date (January 1, 1970). By default, the result value represents a date and time in the UTC time zone. If the setting --use_local_tz_for_unix_timestamp_conversions=true is in effect, the resulting TIMESTAMP represents a date and time in the local time zone.

Usage notes:

The data type INTEGER is an alias for INT.

For a convenient and automated way to check the bounds of the INT type, call the functions MIN_INT() and MAX_INT().

If an integer value is too large to be represented as a INT, use a BIGINT instead.

NULL considerations: Casting any non-numeric value to this type produces a NULL value.

Examples:

CREATE TABLE t1 (x INT);
SELECT CAST(1000 AS INT);

Partitioning: Prefer to use this type for a partition key column. Impala can process the numeric type more efficiently than a STRING representation of the value.

HBase considerations: This data type is fully compatible with HBase tables.

Parquet considerations:

Text table considerations: Values of this type are potentially larger in text tables than in tables using Parquet or other binary formats.

Internal details: Represented in memory as a 4-byte value.

Added in: Available in all versions of Impala.

Column statistics considerations: Because this type has a fixed size, the maximum and average size fields are always filled in for column statistics, even before you run the COMPUTE STATS statement.

Related information:

Numeric Literals, TINYINT Data Type, SMALLINT Data Type, INT Data Type, BIGINT Data Type, DECIMAL Data Type (CDH 5.1 or higher only), Impala Mathematical Functions