Re: SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-02-16T19:23:01Z

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Fix some typos and make small stylistic improvements
- 5282bf535e47 19 (unreleased) landed
Cleanup users and roles in graph_table_rls test
- 040a56be4bcc 19 (unreleased) landed
Dump labels in reproducible order
- c9babbc8816a 19 (unreleased) landed
SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ)
- 2f094e7ac691 19 (unreleased) landed
Factor out constructSetOpTargetlist() from transformSetOperationTree()
- 8c2b30487cc7 19 (unreleased) landed
Sort out table_open vs. relation_open in rewriter
- d537f59fbbfc 19 (unreleased) landed
Rename grammar nonterminal to simplify reuse
- 8080f44f96a9 19 (unreleased) landed
Make ecpg parse.pl more robust with braces
- 7f88553ceaca 19 (unreleased) landed
Don't lock partitions pruned by initial pruning
- 525392d5727f 18.0 cited
Remove pg_regex_collation
- 792b2c7e6d92 18.0 cited
Use auxv to check for CRC32 instructions on ARM.
- aac831cafa6f 18.0 cited
Fix inappropriate uses of atol()
- f5a1311fccd2 18.0 cited
Remove unnecessary array object_classes[] in dependency.c
- ef5e2e90859a 17.0 cited

Hi,

On 2024-02-16 15:53:11 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The patch is quite fragile, and treading outside the tested paths will
> likely lead to grave misbehavior.  Use with caution.  But I feel that
> the general structure is ok, and we just need to fill in the
> proverbial few thousand lines of code in the designated areas.

One aspect that I m concerned with structurally is that the transformation,
from property graph queries to something postgres understands, is done via the
rewrite system. I doubt that that is a good idea. For one it bars the planner
from making plans that benefit from the graph query formulation. But more
importantly, we IMO should reduce usage of the rewrite system, not increase
it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund