PostgreSQL is enough

Re:PostgreSQL is enough by kevinmershon on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:03AM (#39274253)

Thank you for this post. I've been looking high and low for weeks trying to find a way to connect Looker to a GraphQL API unsuccessfully and apparently "PostgreSQL emulators" are called FDWs as I learned from this link. I had searched every term I could think of for how to simulate or proxy a SQL database into an API but calling it a foreign data wrapper would have never occurred to me.

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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by pcthrowaway on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:13AM (#39274335)

Did you try describing the problem and the thing you're looking for to chatgpt to see if it knows of a name? I find that making connections like this is one of the things it actually does well

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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by kevinmershon on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:25AM (#39274482)

I actually did, repeatedly. I threw away 3 or 4 chat sessions with it about this very subject. It kept hallucinating features into libraries and naming products that don't actually support this translation direction.

And with Google searches the vast majority of results are going the opposite way: creating a GraphQL API from a real SQL schema.

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Re:PostgreSQL is enough by darkerside on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:30AM (#39274554)

Remember when you could do this with Google?

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