Seeing a lot of issues in Discord in which the LLM is not using the
correct LIMIT clause for different SQL dialects. ie, it's using `LIMIT`
for mssql instead of `TOP`, or instead of `ROWNUM` for Oracle, etc.
I think this could be due to us specifying the LIMIT statement in the
example rows portion of `table_info`. So the LLM is seeing the `LIMIT`
statement used in the prompt.
Since we can't specify each dialect's method here, I think it's fine to
just replace the `SELECT... LIMIT 3;` statement with `3 rows from
table_name table:`, and wrap everything in a block comment directly
following the `CREATE` statement. The Rajkumar et al paper wrapped the
example rows and `SELECT` statement in a block comment as well anyway.
Thoughts @fpingham?
This approach has several advantages:
* it improves the readability of the code
* removes incompatibilities between SQL dialects
* fixes a bug with `datetime` values in rows and `ast.literal_eval`
Huge thanks and credits to @jzluo for finding the weaknesses in the
current approach and for the thoughtful discussion on the best way to
implement this.
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Currently the chain is getting the column names and types on the one
side and the example rows on the other. It is easier for the llm to read
the table information if the column name and examples are shown together
so that it can easily understand to which columns do the examples refer
to. For an instantiation of this, please refer to the changes in the
`sqlite.ipynb` notebook.
Also changed `eval` for `ast.literal_eval` when interpreting the results
from the sample row query since it is a better practice.
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Co-authored-by: Francisco Ingham <>
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Co-authored-by: Francisco Ingham <fpingham@gmail.com>
