@@ -42,10 +42,20 @@ In TDengine, the data types below can be used when specifying a column or tag.
| 14 | NCHAR | User Defined | Multi-byte string that can include multi byte characters like Chinese characters. Each character of NCHAR type consumes 4 bytes storage. The string value should be quoted with single quotes. Literal single quote inside the string must be preceded with backslash, like `\'`. The length must be specified when defining a column or tag of NCHAR type, for example nchar(10) means it can store at most 10 characters of nchar type and will consume fixed storage of 40 bytes. An error will be reported if the string value exceeds the length defined. |
| 15 | JSON | | JSON type can only be used on tags. A tag of json type is excluded with any other tags of any other type. |
| 16 | VARCHAR | User-defined | Alias of BINARY |
| 16 | GEOMETRY | User-defined | Geometry |
:::note
- Each row of the table cannot be longer than 48KB (64KB since version 3.0.5.0) (note that each BINARY/NCHAR/GEOMETRY column takes up an additional 2 bytes of storage space).
- Only ASCII visible characters are suggested to be used in a column or tag of BINARY type. Multi-byte characters must be stored in NCHAR type.
- The length of BINARY can be up to 16,374(data column is 65,517 and tag column is 16,382 since version 3.0.5.0) bytes. The string value must be quoted with single quotes. You must specify a length in bytes for a BINARY value, for example binary(20) for up to twenty single-byte characters. If the data exceeds the specified length, an error will occur. The literal single quote inside the string must be preceded with back slash like `\'`
- The maximum length of the GEOMETRY data column is 65,517 bytes, and the maximum length of the tag column is 16,382 bytes. Supports POINT, LINESTRING, and POLYGON subtypes of 2D. The following table describes the length calculation method:
| # | **Syntax** | **MinLen** | **MaxLen** | **Growth of each point** |
- Numeric values in SQL statements will be determined as integer or float type according to whether there is decimal point or whether scientific notation is used, so attention must be paid to avoid overflow. For example, 9999999999999999999 will be considered as overflow because it exceeds the upper limit of long integer, but 9999999999999999999.0 will be considered as a legal float number.
1. The first column of a table MUST be of type TIMESTAMP. It is automatically set as the primary key.
2. The maximum length of the table name is 192 bytes.
3. The maximum length of each row is 48k(64k since version 3.0.5.0) bytes, please note that the extra 2 bytes used by each BINARY/NCHAR column are also counted.
3. The maximum length of each row is 48k(64k since version 3.0.5.0) bytes, please note that the extra 2 bytes used by each BINARY/NCHAR/GEOMETRY column are also counted.
4. The name of the subtable can only consist of characters from the English alphabet, digits and underscore. Table names can't start with a digit. Table names are case insensitive.
5. The maximum length in bytes must be specified when using BINARY or NCHAR types.
5. The maximum length in bytes must be specified when using BINARY/NCHAR/GEOMETRY types.
6. Escape character "\`" can be used to avoid the conflict between table names and reserved keywords, above rules will be bypassed when using escape character on table names, but the upper limit for the name length is still valid. The table names specified using escape character are case sensitive.
For example \`aBc\` and \`abc\` are different table names but `abc` and `aBc` are same table names because they are both converted to `abc` internally.
Only ASCII visible characters can be used with escape character.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ description: This document describes how TDengine SQL has changed in version 3.0
| 8 | Mixed operations | Enhanced | Mixing scalar and vector operations in queries has been enhanced and is supported in all SELECT clauses.
| 9 | Tag operations | Added | Tag columns can be used in queries and clauses like data columns.
| 10 | Timeline clauses and time functions in supertables | Enhanced | When PARTITION BY is not used, data in supertables is merged into a single timeline.