Utility Statements

There are serval utilities SQL in CeresDB that can help in table manipulation or query inspection.

SHOW CREATE TABLE

SHOW CREATE TABLE table_name;

SHOW CREATE TABLE returns a CREATE TABLE DDL that will create a same table with the given one. Including columns, table engine and options. The schema and options shows in CREATE TABLE will based on the current version of the table. An example:

-- create one table
CREATE TABLE `t` (a bigint, b int default 3, c string default 'x', d smallint null, t timestamp NOT NULL, TIMESTAMP KEY(t)) ENGINE = Analytic;
-- Result: affected_rows: 0

-- show how one table should be created.
SHOW CREATE TABLE `t`;

-- Result DDL:
CREATE TABLE `t` (
    `t` timestamp NOT NULL,
    `tsid` uint64 NOT NULL,
    `a` bigint,
    `b` int,
    `c` string,
    `d` smallint,
    PRIMARY KEY(t,tsid),
    TIMESTAMP KEY(t)
) ENGINE=Analytic WITH (
    arena_block_size='2097152',
    compaction_strategy='default',
    compression='ZSTD',
    enable_ttl='true',
    num_rows_per_row_group='8192',
    segment_duration='',
    ttl='7d',
    update_mode='OVERWRITE',
    write_buffer_size='33554432'
)

DESCRIBE

DESCRIBE table_name;

DESCRIBE will show a detailed schema of one table. The attributes include column name and type, whether it is tag and primary key (todo: ref) and whether it's nullable. The auto created column tsid will also be included (todo: ref).

Example:

CREATE TABLE `t`(a int, b string, t timestamp NOT NULL, TIMESTAMP KEY(t)) ENGINE = Analytic;

DESCRIBE TABLE `t`;

The result is:

name    type        is_primary  is_nullable is_tag

t       timestamp   true        false       false
tsid    uint64      true        false       false
a       int         false       true        false
b       string      false       true        false

EXPLAIN

EXPLAIN query;

EXPLAIN shows how a query will be executed. Add it to the beginning of a query like

EXPLAIN SELECT max(value) AS c1, avg(value) AS c2 FROM `t` GROUP BY name;

will give

logical_plan
Projection: #MAX(07_optimizer_t.value) AS c1, #AVG(07_optimizer_t.value) AS c2
  Aggregate: groupBy=[[#07_optimizer_t.name]], aggr=[[MAX(#07_optimizer_t.value), AVG(#07_optimizer_t.value)]]
    TableScan: 07_optimizer_t projection=Some([name, value])

physical_plan
ProjectionExec: expr=[MAX(07_optimizer_t.value)@1 as c1, AVG(07_optimizer_t.value)@2 as c2]
  AggregateExec: mode=FinalPartitioned, gby=[name@0 as name], aggr=[MAX(07_optimizer_t.value), AVG(07_optimizer_t.value)]
    CoalesceBatchesExec: target_batch_size=4096
      RepartitionExec: partitioning=Hash([Column { name: \"name\", index: 0 }], 6)
        AggregateExec: mode=Partial, gby=[name@0 as name], aggr=[MAX(07_optimizer_t.value), AVG(07_optimizer_t.value)]
          ScanTable: table=07_optimizer_t, parallelism=8, order=None