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Description

This PR achieves the same objectives as googleapis/java-bigquery#4010, but for Node as requested in the planning sheet. The idea is that for reading rows, the users should be able to access high precision values for timestamps if high precision values are being stored on the backend.

Impact

This PR follows a test driven development approach against the getRows method.

Tests were written to evaluate what happens when getRows receives various input values for timestampOutputFormat and useInt64Timestamp. These tests revealed that not only are high precision values not being delivered to users for ISO8601_STRING return types, but also other bugs exist like calls hang on getRows calls that fail and conversion logic throughs errors for some calls that fetch rows. This PR fixes all the bugs and ensures the values with the right precision are delivered to users.

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The highlighted green impact shows that conversion logic has been updated to avoid the 'cannot convert' errors and with this new logic changes are also applied to the BigQueryTimestamp class to maintain high precision on timestamp values returned to users.

Testing

New system tests to capture all useInt64Timestamp/timestampOutputFormat combinations for getRows calls.

google-labs-jules bot and others added 20 commits January 23, 2026 20:33
Add 8 system tests to verify BigQuery `getRows` functionality with
various combinations of `timestampOutputFormat` and `useInt64Timestamp`.
Tests cover all format options: UNSPECIFIED, FLOAT64, INT64, ISO8601_STRING
combined with boolean `useInt64Timestamp` values.
Add 8 system tests to verify BigQuery `getRows` functionality with
various combinations of `timestampOutputFormat` and `useInt64Timestamp`.
Tests cover all format options: UNSPECIFIED, FLOAT64, INT64, ISO8601_STRING
combined with boolean `useInt64Timestamp` values.

Asserts that timestamps inserted with picosecond precision are retrieved
correctly (truncated to microsecond precision as per BigQuery storage).
Add 7 new system test cases to `system-test/timestamp_output_format.ts` to verify the behavior of `Table.getRows` when `formatOptions.timestampOutputFormat` or `formatOptions.useInt64Timestamp` are omitted.

These tests confirm that `useInt64Timestamp` defaults to `true`, causing conflicts with incompatible formats like `FLOAT64` unless explicitly disabled.
This change modifies `BigQueryTimestamp` constructor to preserve original string values for timestamps with more than 9 fractional digits (picoseconds etc.), bypassing `PreciseDate` which truncates to nanoseconds. This ensures that high precision timestamps returned by BigQuery are not truncated by the client.

- Unskipped test in `system-test/timestamp_output_format.ts`
- Added regression test in `test/bigquery.ts`
- Implemented logic to check for high precision strings in `src/bigquery.ts`

Co-authored-by: danieljbruce <8935272+danieljbruce@users.noreply.github.com>
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@danieljbruce danieljbruce requested review from a team as code owners January 26, 2026 20:38
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@danieljbruce danieljbruce changed the base branch from add-timestamp-format-tests-10311892747277932470 to main January 26, 2026 20:44
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@danieljbruce danieljbruce changed the title fix: support high precision timestamp strings fix: support high precision timestamp strings on getRows calls Jan 26, 2026
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I don't think we should provide this option to customers, we should default to use the new timestampOutputFormat option under the hood.

} else if (typeof value === 'string') {
if (/^\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2}/.test(value)) {
pd = new PreciseDate(value);
if (value.match(/\.\d{10,}/) && !Number.isNaN(pd.getTime())) {
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is PreciseDate supporting the picosecond resolution ?

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