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# Environment variables
## SQLCEXPERIMENT
The `SQLCEXPERIMENT` variable controls experimental features within sqlc. It is
a comma-separated list of experiment names. This is modeled after Go's
[GOEXPERIMENT](https://pkg.go.dev/internal/goexperiment) environment variable.
Experiment names can be prefixed with `no` to explicitly disable them.
```
SQLCEXPERIMENT=foo,bar # enable foo and bar experiments
SQLCEXPERIMENT=nofoo # explicitly disable foo experiment
SQLCEXPERIMENT=foo,nobar # enable foo, disable bar
```
The following experiments are defined:
### coreanalyzer
Routes `sqlc generate` through the core catalog and analyzer instead of each
engine's own analysis path. This is the same analysis used by `sqlc analyze`,
and the only analysis path for the ClickHouse and GoogleSQL engines.
```
SQLCEXPERIMENT=coreanalyzer
```
## SQLCCACHE
The `SQLCCACHE` environment variable dictates where `sqlc` will store cached
data. By default `sqlc` follows the [XDG Base Directory
Specification](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html).
The cache is designed after Bazel's local disk cache and has three parts:
- `cas/` — a content-addressable store holding blobs (query analysis
results, WASM plugin binaries, compiled WASM machine code) keyed by the
SHA-256 hash of their contents. A remotely fetched plugin's address is
exactly the checksum declared in the configuration file, so it is loaded
directly by that address.
- `ac/` — an action cache mapping the digest of a unit of cacheable work and
its inputs (analyzing a query against a schema, compiling a WASM module to
machine code) to the CAS digests of its outputs.
- `exec/` — per-action directories where cached output trees are
materialized for tools that read them from disk, such as the
[wazero](https://wazero.io) runtime's compilation cache.
The entire directory is safe to delete at any time; sqlc will rebuild it as
needed.
## SQLCDEBUG
The `SQLCDEBUG` variable controls debugging variables within the runtime. It is
a comma-separated list of name=val pairs settings.
### dumpast
The `dumpast` command shows the SQL AST that was generated by the parser. Note
that this is the generic SQL AST, not the engine-specific SQL AST.
```
SQLCDEBUG=dumpast=1
```
```
([]interface {}) (len=1 cap=1) {
(*catalog.Catalog)(0xc0004f48c0)({
Comment: (string) "",
DefaultSchema: (string) (len=6) "public",
Name: (string) "",
Schemas: ([]*catalog.Schema) (len=3 cap=4) {
(*catalog.Schema)(0xc0004f4930)({
Name: (string) (len=6) "public",
Tables: ([]*catalog.Table) (len=1 cap=1) {
(*catalog.Table)(0xc00052ff20)({
Rel: (*ast.TableName)(0xc00052fda0)({
Catalog: (string) "",
Schema: (string) "",
Name: (string) (len=7) "authors"
}),
```
### dumpcatalog
The `dumpcatalog` command outputs the entire catalog. If you're using MySQL or
PostgreSQL, this can be a bit overwhelming. Expect this output to change in
future versions.
```
SQLCDEBUG=dumpcatalog=1
```
```
([]interface {}) (len=1 cap=1) {
(*catalog.Catalog)(0xc00050d1f0)({
Comment: (string) "",
DefaultSchema: (string) (len=6) "public",
Name: (string) "",
Schemas: ([]*catalog.Schema) (len=3 cap=4) {
(*catalog.Schema)(0xc00050d260)({
Name: (string) (len=6) "public",
Tables: ([]*catalog.Table) (len=1 cap=1) {
(*catalog.Table)(0xc0000c0840)({
Rel: (*ast.TableName)(0xc0000c06c0)({
Catalog: (string) "",
Schema: (string) "",
Name: (string) (len=7) "authors"
}),
```
### trace
The `trace` command is helpful for tracking down performance issues.
`SQLCDEBUG=trace=1`
By default, the trace output is written to `trace.out` in the current working
directory. You can configure a different path if needed.
`SQLCDEBUG=trace=name.out`
View the execution trace using the Go `trace` tool.
```
go tool trace trace.out
```
There's a ton of different views for the trace output, but here's an example
log showing the execution time for each package.
```
0.000043897 . 1 task sqlc (id 1, parent 0) created
0.000144923 . 101026 1 region generate started (duration: 47.619781ms)
0.001048975 . 904052 1 region package started (duration: 14.588456ms)
0.001054616 . 5641 1 name=authors dir=/Users/kyle/projects/sqlc/examples/python language=python
0.001071257 . 16641 1 region parse started (duration: 7.966549ms)
0.009043960 . 7972703 1 region codegen started (duration: 6.587086ms)
0.009171704 . 127744 1 new goroutine 35: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.010361654 . 1189950 1 new goroutine 36: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.015641815 . 5280161 1 region package started (duration: 10.904938ms)
0.015644943 . 3128 1 name=booktest dir=/Users/kyle/projects/sqlc/examples/python language=python
0.015647431 . 2488 1 region parse started (duration: 4.207749ms)
0.019860308 . 4212877 1 region codegen started (duration: 6.681624ms)
0.020028488 . 168180 1 new goroutine 37: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.021020310 . 991822 1 new goroutine 8: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.026551163 . 5530853 1 region package started (duration: 9.217294ms)
0.026554368 . 3205 1 name=jets dir=/Users/kyle/projects/sqlc/examples/python language=python
0.026556804 . 2436 1 region parse started (duration: 3.491005ms)
0.030051911 . 3495107 1 region codegen started (duration: 5.711931ms)
0.030213937 . 162026 1 new goroutine 20: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.031099938 . 886001 1 new goroutine 38: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.035772637 . 4672699 1 region package started (duration: 10.267039ms)
0.035775688 . 3051 1 name=ondeck dir=/Users/kyle/projects/sqlc/examples/python language=python
0.035778150 . 2462 1 region parse started (duration: 4.094518ms)
0.039877181 . 4099031 1 region codegen started (duration: 6.156341ms)
0.040010771 . 133590 1 new goroutine 39: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.040894567 . 883796 1 new goroutine 40: text/template/parse.lex·dwrap·1
0.046042779 . 5148212 1 region writefiles started (duration: 1.718259ms)
0.047767781 . 1725002 1 task end
```
### processplugins
Setting this value to `0` disables process-based plugins. If a process-based
plugin is declared in the configuration file, running any `sqlc` command will
return an error.
`SQLCDEBUG=processplugins=0`
### dumpvetenv
The `dumpvetenv` command prints the variables available to a `sqlc vet` rule
during evaluation.
`SQLCDEBUG=dumpvetenv=1`
### dumpexplain
The `dumpexplain` command prints the JSON-formatted result from running
`EXPLAIN ...` on a query when a `sqlc vet` rule evaluation requires its output.
`SQLCDEBUG=dumpexplain=1`
## SQLCTMPDIR
If specified, use the given directory as the base for temporary folders. Only
applies when using WASM-based codegen plugins. When not specified, this
defaults to passing an empty string to
[`os.MkdirTemp`](https://pkg.go.dev/os#MkdirTemp).