This is just the bare minimum that I needed to convince myself that this
approach will work. The only views that we support are slices of the
main table: no aggregations, no joins, no projections.
drop view is implemented.
view population is implemented.
deletes, inserts and updates are implemented.
much like indexes before, a flag must be passed to enable views.
The `best_index` implementation now returns a ResultCode along with the
IndexInfo. This allows it to signal specific outcomes, such as errors or
constraint violations. This change aligns better with SQLite’s xBestIndex
contract, where cases like missing constraints or invalid combinations of
constraints must not result in a valid plan.
With this change, the following two queries are considered equivalent:
```sql
SELECT value FROM generate_series(5, 50);
SELECT value FROM generate_series WHERE start = 5 AND stop = 50;
```
Arguments passed in parentheses to the virtual table name are now
matched to hidden columns.
Column references are still not supported as table-valued function
arguments. The only difference is that previously, a query like:
```sql
SELECT one.value, series.value
FROM (SELECT 1 AS value) one, generate_series(one.value, 3) series;
```
would cause a panic. Now, it returns a proper error message instead.
Adding support for column references is more nuanced for two main
reasons:
- We need to ensure that in joins where a TVF depends on other tables,
those other tables are processed first. For example, in:
```sql
SELECT one.value, series.value
FROM generate_series(one.value, 3) series, (SELECT 1 AS value) one;
```
the one table must be processed by the top-level loop, and series must
be nested.
- For outer joins involving TVFs, the arguments must be treated as ON
predicates, not WHERE predicates.
In SQLite, the field equivalent to `constraint_usage` (`aConstraintUsage`
from `sqlite3_index_info`) is used to request arguments that are later
passed to the `xFilter` method. In Limbo, this behavior applies to
virtual tables, but not to table-valued functions. Currently, TVFs have
dedicated handling that passes all function arguments to the filter
method and doesn't use information provided in the `constraint_usage`
field.
This commit is a step toward unifying the handling of virtual tables and
TVFs.
