{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/657#issuecomment-761101878", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/657", "id": 761101878, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc2MTEwMTg3OA==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-01-15T18:16:01Z", "updated_at": "2021-01-15T18:16:01Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "I think the `startup()` plugin hook at https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#startup-datasette should be able to fit this. You can write a plugin which uses that hook to execute `CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE` against  one or more databases when Datasette first starts running.\r\n\r\nWould that work here?", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 548591089, "label": "Allow creation of virtual tables at startup"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1191#issuecomment-761103910", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1191", "id": 761103910, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc2MTEwMzkxMA==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-01-15T18:19:29Z", "updated_at": "2021-01-15T18:19:29Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "This relates to #987 (documented HTML hooks for JavaScript plugins) but is not quite the same thing.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 787098345, "label": "Ability for plugins to collaborate when adding extra HTML to blocks in default templates"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/657#issuecomment-761179229", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/657", "id": 761179229, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc2MTE3OTIyOQ==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2021-01-15T20:24:35Z", "updated_at": "2021-01-15T20:24:35Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "I'm not sure how I missed this issue but it's almost a year later and I'm finally taking a look at your Parquet work.\r\n\r\nThis is yet more evidence that allowing plugins to provide their own custom `Database` objects would be a good idea.\r\n\r\nI started exploring what Datasette would like on PostgreSQL in #670 - my concern was that I would need to add a large amount of database abstraction code which would dramatically increase the complexity of the core project, but my thinking now is that it might be tractable - Datasette doesn't actually construct SQL in complex ways anywhere outside of the `TableView` class so abstracting away just that bit should be feasible.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 1, \"+1\": 1, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 548591089, "label": "Allow creation of virtual tables at startup"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}