system.primes

System table containing a single UInt64 column named prime that contains prime numbers in ascending order, starting from 2.

Description

This table contains a single UInt64 column named prime that contains prime numbers in ascending order, starting from 2.

You can use this table for tests, or if you need to do a brute force search over prime numbers.

Reads from this table are not parallelized.

This is similar to the primes table function.

You can also limit the output by predicates.

Columns

Example

The first 10 primes.

SELECT * FROM system.primes LIMIT 10;

  ┌─prime─┐
  │     2 │
  │     3 │
  │     5 │
  │     7 │
  │    11 │
  │    13 │
  │    17 │
  │    19 │
  │    23 │
  │    29 │
  └───────┘

The first prime greater than 1e15.

SELECT prime FROM system.primes WHERE prime > 1e15 LIMIT 1;

  ┌────────────prime─┐
  │ 1000000000000037 │ -- 1.00 quadrillion
  └──────────────────┘