parser VS pg_query

Compare parser vs pg_query and see what are their differences.

parser

A MySQL Compatible SQL Parser (by pingcap)

pg_query

Ruby extension to parse, deparse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser (by pganalyze)
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parser pg_query
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1,395 752
1.0% 1.5%
3.2 6.3
5 months ago about 2 months ago
Go C
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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parser

Posts with mentions or reviews of parser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-17.
  • sqlc: Generating go code from sql statements
    4 projects | /r/golang | 17 May 2022
    For MySQL the situation is a bit different. sqlc uses the parser of TiDB (https://github.com/pingcap/parser), which is a parser that aims to be basically compatible with MySQL, but is quite young and is not a MySQL parser. The most basic queries work, but even simple joins or aggregations usually result in variables with unknown data types or wrong nullability. So you loose a lot of the benefits of sqlc. Manual type annotations for MySQL also do not work most of the time. They are simply ignored and forwarded to MySQL as invalid query if they do not occur on a place where sqlc is expecting them.
  • Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2022
    This is a disaster waiting to happen. Regular expressions should never be used to parse non-regular languages, of which SQL is one.

    There are a variety of mature MySQL dialect parsers available[1][2], and MySQL should have its own public APIs for transforming a query into an AST. Any of those would be a safer and more correct alternative.

    [1]: https://github.com/pingcap/parser

    [2]: https://github.com/square/mysql-parser

  • Open Source SQL Parsers
    17 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2021
    Pingcap parser is a MySQL parser in Go.

pg_query

Posts with mentions or reviews of pg_query. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing parser and pg_query you can also consider the following projects:

ANTLR - ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

mo-sql-parsing - Let's make a SQL parser so we can provide a familiar interface to non-sql datastores!

pg_query_go - Go library to parse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser

zetasql - ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL

libpg_query - C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment

pg-query-emscripten - Emscripten Port of pg_query to easily play with it in the browser

pglast - PostgreSQL Languages AST and statements prettifier: master branch covers PG10, v2 branch covers PG12, v3 covers PG13, v4 covers PG14, v5 covers PG15, v6 covers PG16

pg_parse - PostgreSQL parser for Rust that uses the actual PostgreSQL server source to parse SQL queries and return the internal PostgreSQL parse tree.

sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser module for Python

pgsql-parser - PostgreSQL Query Parser for Node.js