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The SQLite Index Suggester

www.sqlite.org Reference Documentation & references Software engineering Candidate
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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2021–2024
peak thread · 59 comments
199 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-07-05
199 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I find it interesting, as recently I was reading about how complex it would/could be to create an index suggester. https://www.depesz.com/2021/10/22/why-is-it-hard-to-automati...

yvan·199-point thread·

Some of my coworkers have been dealing with major Ceph issues for the past month. As part of the work, there've been a number of Ceph information dumps, RBD image information, PG information, and lists of incomplete PDs, all in text or CSV files. To help out my coworkers, I wrote up Python code to parse all of those files into a SQLite database. Why? Well, because I can ship the database to anywhere, as one file, and it can…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
356

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Total comments
83

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-02-17Command Line Shell for SQLiteFirst breakouthappy-go-lucky15559
2022-07-05The SQLite Index SuggesterBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnpolyrand19924
2024-09-08Command Line Shell for SQLitetosh20