CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in milliseconds

Question

Is there any way to get milliseconds out of a timestamp in MySql or PostgreSql (or others just out of curiosity)?

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Answer 1

I faced the same issue recently and I created a small github project that contains a new mysql function UNIX_TIMESTAMP_MS() that returns the current timestamp in milliseconds.

Also you can do the following :

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP_MS(NOW(3)) or SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP_MS(DateTimeField)

The project is located here : https://github.com/silviucpp/unix_timestamp_ms

To compile you need to Just run make compile in the project root.

Then you need to only copy the shared library in the /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/ (or whatever the plugin folder is on your machine.)

After this just open a mysql console and run :

CREATE FUNCTION UNIX_TIMESTAMP_MS RETURNS INT SONAME 'unix_timestamp_ms.so';

I hope this will help, Silviu