How to extend dynamic schema with views in Hasura and Postgres? - postgresql

Question

So I am trying and struggling for few days to extend the schema with the custom groupby using something like this
I have a table with few fields like id, country, ip, created_at.
Then I am trying to get them as groups. For example, group the data based on date, hourly of date, or based on country, and based on country with DISTINCT ip.
I am zero with SQLs honestly. But I tried to play around and get what I want. Here's an example.
SELECT Hour(created_at) AS date,
COUNT(*) AS count
FROM session where CAST(created_at AS date) = '2021-04-05'
GROUP BY Hour(created_at)
ORDER BY date;
SELECT country,
count(*) AS count from (SELECT * FROM session where CAST(created_at AS date) <= '2021-05-12' GROUP BY created_at) AS T1
GROUP BY country;
SELECT country, COUNT(*) as count
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT ip, country FROM session) AS T1
GROUP BY country;
SELECT DATE(created_at) AS date,
COUNT(*) AS count
FROM session
GROUP BY DATE(created_at)
ORDER BY date;
Now I am struggling with two things.
How do I make the date as variables? I mean, if I want to group them for a particular date range/ or today's data hourly, or per quarter gap (more of configurable), how do I add the variables in Hasura's Raw SQL?
Also for this approach I have to add schema for each one of them? Like this
CREATE
OR REPLACE VIEW "public"."unique_session_counts_date" AS
SELECT
date(session.created_at) AS date,
count(*) AS count
FROM
session
GROUP BY
(date(session.created_at))
ORDER BY
(date(session.created_at));
Is there a way to make it more generalized? What I mean is, if it
was in Nodejs I could have done something like
return rawQuery(
`
select ${field} x, count(*) y
from ${table}
where website_id=$1
and created_at between $2 and $3
${domainFilter}
${urlFilter}
group by 1
order by 2 desc
`,
params,
);
In this case, based on whatever field and where clause I send, one query would do the trick for me. Can do something similar in hasura?
Thank you so much in advance.

Answer 1

How do I make the date as variables? I mean, if I want to group them for a particular date range/ or today's data hourly, or per quarter gap (more of configurable), how do I add the variables in Hasura's Raw SQL?
My first thought is this. If you're thinking about passing in variables via a GraphQL for example, the GraphQL would look something like:
query MyQuery {
unique_session_counts_date(where: {created_at: {_gte: "<start date here>", _lte: "<end date here>"}}) {
<...any fields, rollups, etc here...>
}
}
The underlying view/query would follow the group by and order by that you've detailed. Then you'd be able to submit a query of the graphql query and just pass in the pertinent parameters like the $1, $2, and $3 in the raqQuery call.
Also for this approach I have to add schema for each one of them?
The schema? The view? I don't think a view specifically would be required, if a multilevel select or similar query can handle it and perform then a view wouldn't particularly be needed.
That's my first stab at the problem. I'm going to try to work through this problem in a few hours via a Twitch stream # HasuraHQ if you can join, happy to walk through it live.