The SQLite command line has facilities to ingest things like csv, and
other formats. But here we are, in 2025, and I asked Claude if Turso's
CLI should, in the same vein, have a native MCP server.
Claude told me: "You're absolutely right!" "That's a great insight!"
"That's a fantastic idea!" and then proceeded to help me with the
boilerplate for this beautiful server.
Rust has a crate, mcp_server, that implements an mcp_server trait.
However, that depends on Tokio, and I think that would bloat our binary
too much.
I have also considered implementing an MCP server that operates on a
directory and allows to list many SQLite files, but figured that would
be a good job for a more advanced and specialized server, not for the
one that comes by default with the CLI. Let's go for simple.
- Fix not being able to create table while importing
* The behavior now aligns with SQLite so that if the table already
exists, all the rows are treated as data. If the table doesn't exist,
the first row is treated as the header from which column names for the
new table are populated.
- Insert in batches instead of one at a time
SQLite creates a table if it does not exists, but we just silently
ignore the data. Let's add an error if table does not exist until we fix
this.
Refs #2079
I just tried turso and couldn't read the last column. Turns out I guess
Pekka's taste is not the best, at least not for everybody.
Auto-detect if terminal is light or dark mode and select colors
accordingly.
Closes#1922
I just tried turso and couldn't read the last column.
Turns out I guess Pekka's taste is not the best, at least not for
everybody.
Auto-detect if terminal is light or dark mode and select colors
accordingly.
Makes it easier to test the feature:
```
$ cargo run -- --experimental-indexes
Limbo v0.0.22
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
Connected to a transient in-memory database.
Use ".open FILENAME" to reopen on a persistent database
limbo> CREATE TABLE t(x);
limbo> CREATE INDEX t_idx ON t(x);
limbo> DROP INDEX t_idx;
```
The `cargo-dist` tool attempts to find it but because we never build it,
packaging fails. Remove the extra binary. Probably better to work
towards making experimental indexes a runtime flag instead.
Currently indexes are the bulk of the problem with `UPDATE` and
`DELETE`, while we work on fixing those it makes sense to disable
indexing since they are not stable. We want to try to make everything
else stable before we continue with indexing.
Accidentally found that you can quit SQLite CLI just by typing `.q`,
`.qu` and `.qui` instead of full `.quit`.
IMO this will be an improvement to the DX.
I've also found bunch of other dot commands that work with abbreviated
aliases in SQLite. If this PR is okay then I will also add them here.
Closes#1720
Hey everyone! I think this project is really really cool and I am here
to answer @jussisaurio
[call](https://x.com/jussisaur/status/1930290889496129562).
I started tinkering around with limbo and ran into this panic. Any input
with less than 7 characters (`"explain".len()`) will trigger it. In my
case it was `show;`. The issue was introduced a week ago in #1678.
PS: As I [said on X](https://x.com/nilskch/status/1930362930605723818),
I would love to help you with Limbo. I have a lot of experience with
DSLs and LSPs, and I have recently become interested in databases. I
don't have much experience with databases yet, but I am happy to learn.
I see that you have a lot of stuff going on with DSLs at the moment, so
I would be productive straight away in that area. Happy to chat if you
need help :)
Closes#1730
I was trying to run the TPC-H 9.sql in the CLI, but it kept truncating
my input due to a comment that is present in the query. After removing
it, I can just copy and paste the query and it works. @PThorpe92 is it
safe to remove this? Or is there a particular reason that was included
that I am not aware of?
Closes#1525
