parser VS pglast

Compare parser vs pglast and see what are their differences.

parser

A MySQL Compatible SQL Parser (by pingcap)

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 (by lelit)
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5 months ago 21 days ago
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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.

pglast

Posts with mentions or reviews of pglast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-06.
  • Show HN: Postgres Language Server
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
    Can't you just give some love to the issue https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44 instead ? As I said before this would be very helpful for the community because there are a lot of libraries that use libpg_query and cannot be used on windows (f.e see https://github.com/lelit/pglast/issues/7).

    It seems that the only problem for fixing the problem is:

    > Thanks for the offer, but the problem is our team being time limited / having an engineer with a Windows machine ready to take this on, not that we wouldn't want to pay someone to work on it :)

    (https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44#issuecomm...)

    Hosting the LSP elsewhere is really needed since if people wanted to go that way they could use Remote ssh (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh) to host the whole dev environment on linux and connect to it.

    Thank you

  • Open Source SQL Parsers
    17 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2021
    Python: pglast

What are some alternatives?

When comparing parser and pglast 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.

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

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

sql-parser - A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect.

pg_query - Ruby extension to parse, deparse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser

zetasql - ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL

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

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

sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser module for Python

JSqlParser - JSqlParser parses an SQL statement and translate it into a hierarchy of Java classes. The generated hierarchy can be navigated using the Visitor Pattern