Support for CockroachDB temporal queries

[pierreis]

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CockroachDB v20.2.9

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Currently, there seems to be no way to set temporal clauses of the form AS OF SYSTEM TIME. Reference for CockroachDB is as follows: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v20.2/as-of-system-time.html

Adding support for this would go a long way in supporting multi-region clusters.

[optiman]

Have you tried Query Mod System?

The query from CockroachDB docs

SELECT name, balance
    FROM accounts
         AS OF SYSTEM TIME '2016-10-03 12:45:00'
   WHERE name = 'Edna Barath';

would look like:

var acc models.Account
err := models.NewQuery(
	qm.Select(models.AccountColumns.Name, models.AccountColumns.Balance),
	qm.From(models.TableNames.Accounts + " AS OF SYSTEM TIME '2016-10-03 12:45:00'"),
        models.AccountWhere.Name.EQ("Edna Barath")
).Bind(context.Background(), db, &acc)

[pierreis]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have not tried this and will definitely do so.

I tend to think that this is not very idiomatic though -- seems a bit of an abuse of From, which works as long as we decide not to quote the table name for some reason.

Having a space in the table name, while arguably being a bad idea, is technically valid and would be a good reason to do so.

[aarondl]

@pierreis I don't love this workaround either. But it's an oddly specific cockroach db thing that we'd be adding.

Really I think we should just blow open the Query struct and allow people to write their own query mods.