ccgo VS pggen

Is "ported" the right term here? It know the repo's README says "CGo-free port", but this is the C version of TCL transpiled from C to Go (see the ~13MB .go files per platform in the "lib" directory). Which is a very cool idea, and the author has done the same thing with SQLite, to avoid CGo (https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite).

Here's a link to his C to Go translator: https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo

Totally agreed: almost all users (me/GoAWK included) want performance and don't care nearly as much about simplicity under the hood. Simplicity of implementation is of value for educational purposes, but we could easily have a small, simple 3rd party package for that. Go's regexp package is kinda too complex for a simple educational demonstration and too simple to be fast. :-)

I actually tried BurntSushi's https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go (bindings to Rust's regex engine) with GoAWK and it made regex handling 4-5x as fast for many regexes, despite the CGo overhead. However, rure-go (and CGo in general) is a bit painful to build, so I'm not going to use that. Maybe I'll create a branch for speed freaks who want it.

I've also thought of using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo to convert Mawk's fast regex engine to Go source and see how that performs. Maybe on the next rainy day...

FYI it uses facility to translate C to go (https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo), there is a similar project does the same thing (https://github.com/elliotchance/c2go).

It's not really pure go, it's transpiled using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo

Just about all the code looks like this:

  // Call this routine to record the fact that an OOM (out-of-memory) error

It would be interesting to read a comparison against https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo

Cornucopia is neat. I wrote a similar library in Go [1] so I'm very interested in comparing design decisions.

The pros of the generated code per query approach:

- App code is coupled to query outputs and inputs (an API of sorts), not database tables. Therefore, you can refactor your DB without changing app code.

- Real SQL with the full breadth of DB features.

- Real type-checking with what the DB supports.

The cons:

- Type mapping is surprisingly hard to get right, especially with composite types and arrays and custom type converters. For example, a query might return multiple jsonb columns but the app code wants to parse them into different structs.

- Dynamic queries don't work with prepared statements. Prepared statements only support values, not identifiers or scalar SQL sub-queries, so the codegen layer needs a mechanism to template SQL. I haven't built this out yet but would like to.

[1]: https://github.com/jschaf/pggen

pggen is another fantastic library in this genre, which specifically targets postgres. It is driven by pgx. Can not recommend enough.

> Do you write out 120 "INSERT" statements, 120 "UPDATE" statements, 120 "DELETE" statements as raw strings

Yes. For example: https://github.com/jschaf/pggen/blob/main/example/erp/order/....

> that is also using an ORM

ORM as a term covers a wide swathe of usage. In the smallest definition, an ORM converts DB tuples to Go structs. In common usage, most folks use ORM to mean a generic query builder plus the type conversion from tuples to structs. For other usages, I prefer the Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture terms [1] like data-mapper, active record, and table-data gateway.

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/

You might like pggen (I’m the author) which only supports Postgres and pgx. https://github.com/jschaf/pggen

pggen occupies the same design space as sqlc but the implementations are quite different. Sqlc figures out the query types using type inference in Go which is nice because you don’t need Postgres at build time. Pggen asks Postgres what the query types are which is nice because it works with any extensions and arbitrarily complex queries.

Any reason to use sqlc over pggen ? If you use Postgres, it seems like the superior option.

Agree with your choices, except go-json which I never tried. pggen is fantastic. Love that library. The underlying driver, pgx, is also really well written.

You might like the approach I took with pggen[1] which was inspired by sqlc[2]. You write a SQL query in regular SQL and the tool generates a type-safe Go querier struct with a method for each query.

The primary benefit of pggen and sqlc is that you don't need a different query model; it's just SQL and the tools automate the mapping between database rows and Go structs.

[1]: https://github.com/jschaf/pggen

[2]: https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc

I created pggen a few weeks ago to create my preferred method of database interaction: I write real SQL queries and I use generated, type-safe Go interfaces to the queries. https://github.com/jschaf/pggen