pev2 VS sqlc

This runs in about 250ms. Let's have a look at the explain plan to understand it better. To visualise it, I am using the excellent visualisation tool from Dalibo.

The PEV2 is open source and give you a good visualization. I never used this pgmustard to compare.

https://explain.dalibo.com/

Visualize Your Plan: Visit explain.dalibo.com and paste the generated plan text and query. Then, hit Submit. The tool will generate a visualization of your query plan. Here's an example of the visualization for the fifth attempt version of the query from this post. It shows the different types of scans that were used and how the data gets combined. The duration of each operation is also shown:

You can download the whole analyzer as a simple html file and use it this way. No need to obfuscate or sanitize anything at all.

https://github.com/dalibo/pev2

You might be interested in sites like https://explain.dalibo.com/ which make the output a bit nicer to read. I use these quite often to quickly identify bottlenecks.

PostgreSQL Query Plan Analyzer and Visualizer

I didn’t know about pev2, interesting, checking it now. Did you integrate the component yourself or are you using this hosted page by them: https://explain.dalibo.com/?

IMO it‘s important to get started with indexing. Grab your most frequently used queries and run an EXPLAIN ANALYZE to identify the problems. This tool might help you to understand your execution plans. Once you identified your problems, you can build indexes and check again. Then you should regularly check if your indexes are used.

"Is there a way to get sqlc to use pointers for nullable columns instead of the sql.Null types?"

I came across this yesterday for golang: https://sqlc.dev which is somewhat like what you want, maybe.

Not sure it allows you to parameterize table names but the basic idea is codegen from sql queries so you are working with go code (autocompletion etc).

Agreed, but tools like https://sqlc.dev, which I mention in the article, are a good trade-off that allows you to have verified, testable, SQL in your code.

sqlc is not strictly a conventional ORM. It offers a unique approach by generating Go code from SQL queries. This allows developers to write SQL, which sqlc then converts into type-safe Go code, reducing the boilerplate significantly. It ensures that your queries are syntactically correct and type-safe. sqlc is ideal for those who prefer writing SQL and are looking for an efficient way to integrate it into a Go application.

I was browsing awesome-go for ideas on how to setup my data access layer when I stumbled on sqlc. It seemed like a great option. Code generation is a strategy often used in the Go ecosystem and making my queries safe at compile time was an idea I really liked. Knex was great, but it required of me that I test thoroughly my queries at runtime and that I sanitize my query results to ensure type safety within my application.

Now, we are going to generate the code. For this purpose, we are going to use sqlc.

https://github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc — for use with //go:generate