snowflake

pig build pkg snowflake         # build RPM / DEB packages

pig repo add pgsql -u          # Add repo and update cache

CREATE EXTENSION snowflake;

CREATE EXTENSION snowflake;

snowflake.node = 1

-- Generate a snowflake ID
SELECT snowflake.nextval();
-- 136169504773242881

-- Use with a named sequence
CREATE SEQUENCE orders_id_seq;
SELECT snowflake.nextval('orders_id_seq'::regclass);

-- Extract components
SELECT snowflake.get_epoch(136169504773242881);
-- 1704996539.845

SELECT to_timestamp(snowflake.get_epoch(136169504773242881));
-- 2024-01-11 13:08:59.845-05

SELECT snowflake.get_node(136169504773242881);
-- 1

SELECT snowflake.format(136169504773242881);
-- {"id": 1, "ts": "2024-01-11 13:08:59.845-05", "count": 0}

-- Use as default column
CREATE TABLE orders (
  id int8 DEFAULT snowflake.nextval() PRIMARY KEY,
  data text
);