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Pure Golang PostgreSQL (SQL:2011, SQL:2008, SQL:2003, SQL:1999, and SQL-92 Standard) Parser
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Language: Go
Pure Golang PostgreSQL (SQL:2011, SQL:2008, SQL:2003, SQL:1999, and SQL-92 Standard) Parser
PostgreSQL style Parser splitted from CockroachDB
See: Complex SQL format example
I tried to import github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/sql/parser, but the dependencies is too complex to make it work.
To make things easy, I did these things:
pkg/sql/parser, pkg/sql/lex and simplify the dependenciesgo get work easily, see the .gitignore filesetcd dependency, see the go.modpkg/sql/parser testspanic of meeting unregistried functions, see the WrapFunctioncockroachdb style PostgreSQL)The code is derived from CockroachDB v20.1.11 which supports most of the major features of SQL:2011. See:
package main import ( "log" "github.com/auxten/postgresql-parser/pkg/sql/parser" "github.com/auxten/postgresql-parser/pkg/walk" ) func main() { sql := `select marr from (select marr_stat_cd AS marr, label AS l from root_loan_mock_v4 order by root_loan_mock_v4.age desc, l desc limit 5) as v4 LIMIT 1;` w := &walk.AstWalker{ Fn: func(ctx interface{}, node interface{}) (stop bool) { log.Printf("node type %T", node) return false }, } stmts, err := parser.Parse(sql) if err != nil { return } _, _ = w.Walk(stmts, nil) return }
This project contains code that is automatically generated using goyacc.
goyacc reads the SQL expressions (sql.y) and generates a parser which could be used to tokenize a given input.
You could update the generated code using the generate target inside the project's Makefile.
$ make generate
github.com/auxten/postgresql-parser/pkg/sql/parser Unit tests works now!