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The 4GL dream hinges on figuring out how to transition from #2 -> #1 seamlessly. The spectrum is wider and more complex than "Excel -> Postgres" but even solvin
by refset 2y ago
The 4GL dream hinges on figuring out how to transition from #2 -> #1 seamlessly. The spectrum is wider and more complex than "Excel -> Postgres" but even solving that journey would be a good start. It could save us all from a whole a bunch of ~needless engineering work.
> it seems very possible to go from #1 -> #2 mechanically, and hand that off to the users who want to play with it
NocoDB seems like a reasonable attempt of taking this approach for Postgres.
- feoren 2y ago> The 4GL dream hinges on figuring out how to transition from #2 -> #1 seamlessly I guarantee you there is no algorithmic way to do this. Going from "big flat file" to "nicely organized 3+NF schema" adds a lot of underlying domain knowledge and information to the system. You're asking for "enhance!" on the database schema. It will always require expert understanding.