This changelog summarizes new features and breaking changes in EdgeDB 1.0 alpha 3 “Proxima Centauri”.
The EdgeDB command-line tools are now written in Rust. The tools are a single binary now and can run on multiple different platforms, including Windows.
A few more commands have been added to REPL:
\dump FILENAME dump current database into a file
\restore FILENAME restore the database from file into
the current one
\s, \history show history
\e, \edit [N] spawn $EDITOR to edit history entry N
then use the output as the input
\set [OPTION [VALUE]] show/change setting
\set Show setting descriptions (without
arguments)
Existing introspection commands have been slightly updated to use a different way of supplying command options. Commands now also have long-form names that are more human-readable.
Also, there are a few settings that control the look and feel of the
REPL (and can be changed via the \set
command:
expand-strings Stop escaping newlines in quoted
strings
implicit-properties Print implicit properties of objects:
id, type id
input-mode Set input mode. One of: vi, emacs
introspect-types Print type names instead of `Object`
in default output mode (may fail if
schema is updated after enabling
option)
limit Set implicit LIMIT. Defaults to 100,
specify 0 to disable
output-mode Set output mode. One of: json, json-
elements, default, tab-separated
verbose-errors Print all errors with maximum
verbosity
Distinguish REQUIRED
and OPTIONAL
query parameters
(#1352, #1355)
Allow tuple arrays in schema definitions (73125882).
Get rid of schema::CompoundType
in favor of is_compound_type
property (c30c1c4f).
Add anytype
and anytuple
as proper abstract
types to the schema (affb65de).
schema::Constraint
no longer has args
, use params
instead
(14cec6f1).
Make std::Object
the implicit base type for all user-defined
object types only.
Make std::BaseObject
the root type for all object types both
user-defined and system object types.
Accept 1e100n
format as a valid bigint
constant rather than
decimal
(#1372)
Make self-referencing (recursive) aliases forbidden.
Fix dependency tracking affecting index creation (#1181).
Fix derivation of link targets in certain cases of multiple inheritance (52c6b2d4).
Fix handling of ad-hoc tuples (#1255).
Fix incorrect implicit limit injection in subqueries in computables (#1271).
Computables cardinality must now be declared explicitly as
required
, single
or multi
. The expression is validated
to be within the upper and lower limits implied by the declaration
(#1201, #349).
Prohibit database names longer than 63 characters (#1158).
Prohibit duplicate elements in shapes (#1368).
Implement ALTER FUNCTION
(#1433).
Rename std::to_str()
array-joining function to
array_join()
.
Rename std::to_array()
string-splitting function to
str_split()
.
Convert EdgeQL lexer (#1178)
Convert GraphQL parser to Rust and perform constant extraction (#1299).
Constant extraction from EdgeQL queries (#1356)
Make it possible to use different EdgeDB servers connected to the same Postgres cluster (#1197).
Protocol: implement JSON_ELEMENTS
IO format for responses
(#1169).
Add cheatsheet to documentation.
Strictly type-annotate the core schema module.
Clean-up and improve schema and introspection code to make the internal APIs more consistent (#1408).
Update the edgedb-js driver to v0.7.3.
Update the edgedb-python driver to v0.8.0.