InverSQL: Build SQL interactively in inverse
Details
- External ID
- 49612826
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- InverSQL: Build SQL interactively in inverse
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 8, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Description
Since both ML [1] and SQL can be used to select cells from a table, can I convert one to the other?This allows creating SQL in a smart way (select cells -> build SQL, hence the name inverse SQL).Yes.Create a decision tree (an ML predictor) from the cells selected Formulate it as SAT Simplify it Convert to SQL.Demo on streamlit.Love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on this![1]: ML = machine learning, here I’m using decision trees
Enrichment
- Theme
- database infrastructure and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive sql builder
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an interactive spreadsheet UI can be vibe-coded, synthesizing relational SQL queries from cell selections using decision trees and SAT solvers requires non-trivial algorithmic formulation.
What it would actually take: The system requires a table UI (React/Canvas) connected to a backend that maps highlighted cells to positive/negative examples, trains a decision tree classifier, encodes the decision boundaries into Boolean satisfiability (SAT) clauses via Z3 or MiniSat, and simplifies them into relational algebra / SQL WHERE clauses. The bottleneck is program synthesis and formal verification to guarantee that generated queries generalize accurately without over-fitting. Requires knowledge of automated theorem proving, SAT/SMT solvers, and database query optimization.
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