tursodatabase / tursodatabase/libsql
Integrate a https/S3 extension
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Description
DuckDB folks implemented an extremely nice HTTPS extension: https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/httpfs.html.
Let's figure out how to add one to libSQL as well. DuckDB's syntax: SELECT * FROM 'https://domain.tld/file.extension sounds extremely self-explanatory and useful, so I suggest we just follow suit. Perhaps by having a special built-in VFS implementation capable of reading files from https, and reading+writing to S3 endpoints. Then, the syntax "SELECT * from 'url'" can transparently use this VFS.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read DuckDB's httpfs documentation first, then trace libSQL's VFS entry points and the proposed SELECT-from-URL syntax. Define the scope for HTTPS reads and S3 reads and writes, including how URL queries should behave; done means the supported URL forms work through a built-in VFS with coverage for the intended cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, sqlite
- Domain
- cloud, databases, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100