minisql/DIVISION_OF_LABOUR.txt
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Communication with client (mainly processing client's input)
* understand and implement the postgres protocol
* setup of concurrent connections
* when client sends a query, we send it to the parser
Parsing can be started now
basically a function
String -> Result<RawOperationSyntax, ParsingError>
Validation of operation
When parsing gives you a raw syntax of an operation, it need not make sense (e.g. table doesn't exist)
So we need to validate it.
The output of the validation is
* a proper operation validated against the database schema
* reject when e.g. table doesn't exist, condition refers to non-existent column etc
* This phaze doesn't need access to runtime data (e.g. rows or indices), just the table schemas.
==========Locking of tables should happen here========
Interpretation:
Change the state of the table given the validated operation
Responding to the client
* with error messages
* with success message (after insert/delete etc)
* with rows
==========Lock on the table should be dropped here===========
Serialization/Desearilization to disk
There are two approaches
* one is incremental (and very hard), a storage engine where you have a huge database on disk
encoding something like a BTree, and then you have a small in-memory view (cache) on what's on the disk.
And you try to constantly keep these synced.
* the other is: when the server is shut down, just serialize the in-memory database state onto disk
in e.g. JSON. Trivial to implement.