Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Based on the feedback I will move
the DDL classes to Core. I reserve the right to reverse direction if
those DDL classes start changing in weird ways due to dialect
requirements in Babel.

If you have further comments, let's discuss in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-3946.

I aim to get 3946 merged in the next day or two.

Julian

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 2:20 PM Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I prefer a bit more the alternative of putting all DDL classes into "core".
>
> When people talk about an SQL parser usually they mean the complete beast
> (DQL, DDL, DML).
> Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find DDL in "core", especially since
> DML is already in.
>
> The dependency from "babel" to "server" sounds a bit weird at first but
> given that the only classes
> that we have there at the moment are those for handling DDL statements it
> doesn't bother me a lot.
>
> If people prefer to go with the "copy-paste" approach I am also fine with
> that but it is my least favorite.
>
> Best,
> Stamatis
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:34 PM Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Il Ven 15 Mag 2020, 22:26 Julian Hyde <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> >
> > > Currently, there is no DDL in Calcite's "core" module (or its SQL
> > > parser) and the SQL parser in the "server" module adds DDL extensions
> > > for Calcite's object types.
> > >
> > > There is a PR [1][2] to add support for "CREATE TABLE" to Babel, and
> > > it makes "babel" extend the "server" module. In particular, it uses
> > > classes SqlDdlNodes and SqlCreateTable from "server".
> > >
> > > I am uncomfortable with that approach, because "server" does other
> > > things besides parse DDL (it creates a stateful server and handles
> > > RPC). Also, the needs of other DBMSs' DDL might make Calcite's DDL
> > > classes more complicated. So, it all seems to be unnecessary coupling.
> > >
> > > The alternative is to copy-paste the DDL classes (currently
> > > SqlDdlNodes, SqlCreateTable and SqlColumnDeclaration) from "babel"
> > > into "server".
> > >
> > > Another alternative would be to move all DDL classes into "core".
> > >
> > > None of the alternatives are great, but I prefer the copy-paste
> > > approach. What do y'all think?
> > >
> >
> > It would be interesting for HerdDB community to have DDL in core Calcite
> >
> >
> > Enrico
> >
> >
> > > Julian
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/apache/calcite/pull/1938
> > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-3946
> > >
> >

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