v.20.5New Feature
Add _timestamp_ms Virtual Column for Kafka Engine
Add_timestamp_msvirtual column for Kafka engine (type isNullable(DateTime64(3))). #11260 (filimonov).
Why it matters
This feature provides users with the ability to access the timestamp of Kafka messages with millisecond precision directly from the Kafka engine, enabling more precise time-based querying and processing of Kafka data.How to use it
Users can simply query the Kafka engine and include the virtual column_timestamp_ms in their SELECT statements to retrieve the timestamp of each Kafka message with millisecond precision.