PGCon2019 - 3.4

PGCon 2019
The PostgreSQL Conference

Speakers
Bo Peng
Schedule
Day Talks - Day 2 - 2019-05-31
Room DMS 1120
Start time 16:00
Duration 00:45
Info
ID 1310
Event type Lecture
Track Hacking
Language used for presentation English
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Introducing PostgreSQL SQL parser through an experience of reusing it in other applications

SQL parser is an important subsystem in PostgreSQL because it understands SQL queries and turns it into a machine readable form so that subsequent subsystems can easily handle user's SQL. In this talk I will explain the internal of SQL parser through an experience in porting it to other applications.

PostgreSQL query processing architecture consists 4 steps: parser, rewriter, optimizer and executor. The parser is a PostgreSQL internal module to parse the SQL from application and returns an internal PostgreSQL parse tree.

The SQL parser is divided into two pieces: raw parser which is responsible for syntactic analysis of SQL, and analyzer which adds semantics information by looking up system catalogs.

In this talk, firstly I will explain the internal of the SQL parser. Next, because there are many applications which want to have an SQL parser, I will show you how to port the raw parser to an application by using Pgpool-II as a concrete example.