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Use when adding a new GraphJin database, warehouse, or CQL/NoSQL backend; building a simulator because no live service is available; wiring a dialect, discovery, tests, scripts, README/CONFIG/FEATURES, or website database support surfaces.

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Add GraphJin Database

Use this skill to add a database end to end without leaving half-public support behind. GraphJin is a compiler, not a resolver stack: push behavior into dialect, discovery, schema metadata, and tests.

Workflow

  1. Ground in docs and repo truth.

    • Read the database's official SQL, DDL, type, catalog, and limitations docs before coding.
    • Inspect existing GraphJin seams: config validation, dialect factory, introspection, tests/dbint_test.go, hosted emulators, scripts, README, CONFIG, FEATURES, and website components.
    • Decide and state the public support level: experimental queries, mutations, subscriptions, full support, or simulator-only.

  2. Build a simulator first when live service access is unavailable or slow.

    • Add tests/hostedemu/<db> and tests/<db>emu around hostedemu.NewConnector.
    • Add tests/<db>.sql using database-native DDL, types, constraints, and metadata features.
    • Keep parser/translator code owned by the target database. Reuse hosted emulator patterns, not another database's grammar, unless docs prove the syntax is identical.
    • Translate setup and discovery into DuckDB, but expose the database's real discovery surfaces.
    • Add parser, type mapping, metadata, discovery, wrapper, default-fixture, and large-catalog tests.

  3. Use the simulator to build public support.

    • Register the DB type in core/config.go, the psql dialect factory, subscription dialect lookup, introspection switches, and schema-DDL/diff code if public DDL support is claimed.
    • Add a DB-owned dialect. Inherit behavior only after target-specific tests prove it.
    • Add discovery using the docs-recommended catalog path first, with fallbacks only where needed.
    • Wire tests/dbint_test.go, focused skip helpers for unsupported features, and scripts/test-<db>.sh.

  4. Update public surfaces only after the runtime is wired.

    • Update README, CONFIG, FEATURES, website database logos/frontpage copy, website database matrix, and test-parallel scripts.
    • Make feature claims match tests. Use "experimental" and "query/discovery only" when writes, subscriptions, GIS, full-text, or migrations are not verified.
    • Preserve unrelated dirty worktree edits. Patch on top; never revert user changes.

  5. Verify and leave evidence.

    • Run simulator tests, dialect/introspection tests, the new scripts/test-<db>.sh, and affected shared suites.
    • If shared compiler or introspection code changed, run existing dialect scripts likely to be affected.
    • Before finalizing, recheck docs/website claims against the support level that actually passed.

References

  • Read references/checklist.md for the detailed implementation checklist and Redshift-specific notes.