alt Hacker NewsThe thing I would have liked to know is why they don't use an existing fast SQL parser. Was being slightly incompatible with all existing SQL dialects a product requirement?
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__s • yesterday at 9:49 PM
This is pretty much the case with every SQL dialect
-warren • yesterday at 8:34 PM
I think thats exactly what indirectly happened. This guy didnt optimize the parser. Someone else did -- years ago. That work was pulled into the LLM and made it look like magic.
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Our SQL is very similar to ClickHouse SQL, in that we used ClickHouse SQL as a starting point as that's what our underlying DB is. We needed to have our own parser so that we could add additional language features on top.