farmFingerprint64 function - Amazon Redshift
SyntaxArgumentReturn typeExample

Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting Patch 198. Existing Python UDFs will continue to function until June 30, 2026. For more information, see the blog post .

farmFingerprint64 function

Computes the farmhash value of the input argument using the Fingerprint64 function.

Syntax

farmFingerprint64(expression)

Argument

expression

The input expression must be a VARCHAR or VARBYTE data type.

Return type

The farmFingerprint64 function returns a BIGINT.

Example

The following example returns the farmFingerprint64 value of Amazon Redshift that is input as a VARCHAR data type. 

SELECT farmFingerprint64('Amazon Redshift');
  
  farmfingerprint64
---------------------
 8085098817162212970

The following example returns the farmFingerprint64 value of Amazon Redshift that is input as a VARBYTE data type. 

SELECT farmFingerprint64('Amazon Redshift'::varbyte);
  
  farmfingerprint64
---------------------
 8085098817162212970