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I was just wondering which field type would be the best solution for storing a timestamp in a MySQL database.
Currently I store timestamps in an INT (10) field and insert the time by doing UNIX_TIMESTAMP(). If I was to use a timestamp field would it be slower or quicker when indexed? I know both fields use 4 bytes.
They’re both implemented by a 4 byte integer so the indexes should perform equally well.