After the SELECT WA cache landed, pprof showed HbFileExists → os.Stat at 28% of remaining CPU — the RunSelect cleanup loop was stat-ing __view_<table>.dbf for every table in every query, even on the common view-free path. Track view materialisation with a TSqlIndex.lViewUsed flag set in OpenTable when CheckView produces a temp. The cleanup loop now runs only when the flag is set, then resets it. View-using queries are unaffected. pprof delta: rawsyscalln: 2.14s → 1.41s (48% → 32% of total CPU) os.Stat: 1.24s → 0.49s (28% → 11%) Wall-clock bench numbers stayed within plus-or-minus 3% noise (stats are cheap when the target file does not exist, so CPU savings do not translate directly to end-to-end time) but this removes the next biggest syscall waste visible in the profile. FiveSql2 43/43, Harbour compat 56/56. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
FiveSql2 — SQL Engine for Harbour DBF/NTX/CDX
Pratt parser + SQL:1992-2023 full standard support Supports both NTX (Clipper) and CDX (FoxPro/ADS) indexes
Architecture
five_SQL("SELECT ...")
│
├── TSqlLexer Tokenizer
├── TSqlParser2 Pratt parser (data-driven operators)
├── TSqlExecutor Query executor (Volcano model)
│ ├── TSqlAlias Central alias manager (no collisions)
│ ├── TSqlIndex NTX/CDX index optimization (auto-detect)
│ ├── TSqlAgg GROUP BY / aggregation
│ ├── TSqlSort ORDER BY / DISTINCT
│ ├── TSqlDDL CREATE/DROP/ALTER TABLE/INDEX
│ └── TSqlTxn BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK
├── TSqlExpr AST nodes + expression evaluation
└── TSqlFunc 60+ scalar functions
Build & Test
export PATH="/path/to/harbour-core/bin/linux/gcc:$PATH"
export HB_INSTALL_PREFIX="/path/to/harbour-core"
make # Build all tests
make test # Run all 157 tests
make bench # Parser benchmark
make clean # Clean
SQL Standard Coverage
| Standard | Features | Tests |
|---|---|---|
| SQL:1992 | SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, HAVING, Subquery, CASE, CAST | 43 |
| SQL:1999 | CTE, Recursive CTE, Window Functions, MERGE | 10 |
| SQL:2003 | SIMILAR TO, GROUPING SETS, LATERAL, Window frames | 64 |
| SQL:2008 | FETCH/OFFSET, FOR UPDATE, Extended MERGE | (incl.) |
| SQL:2016 | JSON functions, LISTAGG | (incl.) |
| SQL:2023 | ANY_VALUE, GREATEST/LEAST, BOOL_AND/OR | (incl.) |
| Challenge | LeetCode-level complex queries | 15 |
| Extreme | Production analytics stress tests | 15 |
Adding New Operators
Edit TSqlParser2.prg, method InitInfixTables():
::hInfixTT[ TK_MYOP ] := { "<=>", 40, 41, ND_BIN }
One line. No structural changes needed.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Charles KWON (Charles KWON OhJun) Email: charleskwonohjun@gmail.com All rights reserved.