This allows you to enter TRUE or FALSE in a SQL statement for BOOLEAN
types. Note that this differs from SQLite, which requires entering 1 or
0 for BOOLEANs; having explicit keywords feels a bit more natural.
This partially implements SQLite's bind-parameter expression to support
indicating placeholder values in a SQL statement. For example:
INSERT INTO table VALUES (42, ?);
In the above statement, the '?' identifier is a placeholder. This will
allow clients to compile statements a single time while running those
statements any number of times with different placeholder values.
Further, this will help mitigate SQL injection attacks.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
This statement (for now) outputs the name and types of the different
attributes in a table. It's not standard SQL but all DBMSs that I know
of implement a sort of statement for such functionality.
Since the output of DESCRIBE TABLE is just a relation, an internal
schema, `master` was created and a table definition for DESCRIBE into
it. The table definition and the master schema are not accessible by the
user.
This patch introduces the ability execute parsed SQL statements. The
abstract AST Statement node now has a virtual 'execute' method. This
method takes a Database object as parameter and returns a SQLResult
object.
Also introduced here is the CREATE SCHEMA statement. Tables live in a
schema, and if no schema is present in a table reference the 'default'
schema is implied. This schema is created if it doesn't yet exist when
a Database object is created.
Finally, as a proof of concept, the CREATE SCHEMA and CREATE TABLE
statements received an 'execute' implementation. The CREATE TABLE
method is not able to create tables created from SQL queries yet.
SQL was standardized before there was consensus on sane language syntax
constructs had evolved. The language is mostly case-insensitive, with
unquoted text converted to upper case. Identifiers can include lower
case characters and other 'special' characters by enclosing the
identifier with double quotes. A double quote is escaped by doubling it.
Likewise, a single quote in a literal string is escaped by doubling it.
All this means that the strategy used in the lexer, where a token's
value is a StringView 'window' on the source string, does not work,
because the value needs to be massaged before being handed to the
parser. Therefore a token now has a String containing its value. Given
the limited lifetime of a token, this is acceptable overhead.
Not doing this means that for example quote removal and double quote
escaping would need to be done in the parser or in AST node
construction, which would spread lexing basically all over the place.
Which would be suboptimal.
There was some impact on the sql utility and SyntaxHighlighter component
which was addressed by storing the token's end position together with
the start position in order to properly highlight it.
Finally, reviewing the tests for parsing numeric literals revealed an
inconsistency in which tokens we accept or reject: `1a` is accepted but
`1e` is rejected. Related to this is the fate of `0x`. Added a FIXME
reminding us to address this.
