[OT] Idea to get all columns from multiple tables in DB

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 23:01:14 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:

> In my project, I only do generation of SQL for updating or 
> inserting rows. For fetching elements, I write the SQL (by hand 
> or through a sql building system I wrote) and then use the 
> byItem serializer to get the records.

We also are writing SQL statements by hand, but I've found that's 
really nice to have a compile time check against the current db 
schemas. For example, actually I can do:

---
string stat = public!`select recording_id from recordings where 
wrongcolname < 10`;

  ~/dlang/dmd-2.089.0/osx/bin/dmd -i -Isrc -g -unittest -debug -c 
-o- src/test.d

/Users/pinver/dlang/dmd-2.089.0/osx/bin/../../src/phobos/std/exception.d(515): Error: uncaught CTFE exception object.Error("column 'wrongcolname' does not exist: 'select recording_id from recordings where wrongcolname < 10'")
src/bkn/sql/semantic.d(75):        called from here: <bigsnip>
---

The struct representing the schema is created reading and 
processing a SQL file with the schema dump, dumping it once to a 
D module, but can be done also at compile time.

That's pretty nice also using an IDE, for example I've configured 
VSCode to compile-on-save and I've cool red underlines under the 
wrong sql statements.

The semantic pass is really basic right now, but I've plan to 
expand it.