Details
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Bug
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
From what I understand from the JDBC documentation, the way that a java.sql.Date should be handled via JDBC is simply as a day, month, and year, despite the fact that it is internally represented as a timestamp (the same kind of thing applies to Time objects, which are a triple of hours, minutes, and seconds).
Further, my understanding is that it is the responsibility of a JDBC driver to do normalization of incoming Date and Time (and maybe Timestamp) objects to interpret them as being in the current time zone, and remove the extra components (i.e. time components for a Date, and date components for a Time) before storing the value.
This means that today, if I insert a column value consisting of 'new Date(System.currentTimeMillis())', then I should be able to retrieve that same value with a filter on 'Date.valueOf(“2014-03-18”)’. Additionally, that filter should work regardless of my own local timezone.
It also means that if I store ‘Time.valueOf("07:00:00”)’ in a TIME field in a database in my current timezone, someone should get “07:00:00” if they run 'ResultSet#getTime(1).toString()’ on that value, even if they’re in a different timezone than me.
From what I can see right now, Phoenix doesn’t currently exhibit this behavior. Instead, the full long representation of Date, Time, and Timestamps is stored directly in HBase, without dropping the extra date fields or doing timezone conversion.
From the current analysis, what is required for Phoenix to be JDBC-compliant in terms of time/date/timestamp handling is:
- All incoming time-style values should be interpreted in the local timezone of the driver, then be normalized and converted to UTC before serialization (unless a Calendar is supplied) in PreparedStatement calls
- All outgoing time-style values should be converted from UTC into the local timezone (unless a Calendar is supplied) in ResultSet calls
- Supplying a Calendar to PreparedStatement methods should cause the time value to be converted from the local timezone to the timezone of the calendar (instead of UTC) before being serialized
- Supplying a Calendar to ResultSet methods should cause the time value from the database to be interpreted as if it was serialized in the timezone of the Calendar, instead of UTC.
Making the above changes would mean breaking backwards compatibility with existing Phoenix installs (unless some kind of backwards-compatibility mode is introduced or something similar).
Attachments
Issue Links
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PHOENIX-2990 Ensure documentation on "time/date" datatypes/functions acknowledge lack of JDBC compliance
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- Closed
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