pf_app/server.js
Paul Trowbridge 1ed8595577 SPIKE: server-side DuckDB virtual server behind ?engine=duck
Working measurement spike for Option C: aggregation runs in a server-side
DuckDB instead of shipping every row to the browser. Opt-in via
?engine=duck; the default client-side WASM path is untouched.

- routes/perspective.js: POST /perspective/init materializes a version's
  forecast table into a persistent in-process DuckDB (ATTACH postgres,
  so 535k rows land in ~1.5s without streaming through Node); POST
  /perspective/sql executes one Perspective-generated statement, with
  Arrow IPC output for viewport reads.
- ui/src/duckServerHandler.js: VirtualServerHandler that delegates SQL
  generation to Perspective's own GenericSQLVirtualServerModel and POSTs
  the result to the server. Adapted from @perspective-dev/client's
  virtual_servers/duckdb.ts — same SQL model, different transport.
- Forecast.jsx: DUCK_MODE branch replaces the heavy /data fetch with
  /perspective/init, opens the hosted table over a message port, and
  shows a latency overlay. applyDepth routes through viewer.restore()
  since the SQL server cannot handle view.set_depth().

Preserved for a future faster-load effort. Findings and the reason this
is not the shipped path (no interactive tree expand/collapse) are in
pf_perspective_options.md on master.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 21:48:06 -04:00

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require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const cors = require('cors');
const { Pool, types } = require('pg');
// Return bigint (oid 20) and numeric (oid 1700) as JS numbers instead of strings,
// so apache-arrow's tableFromJSON infers Int/Float64 rather than Dictionary<Utf8>.
types.setTypeParser(20, v => v === null ? null : Number(v));
types.setTypeParser(1700, v => v === null ? null : Number(v));
const app = express();
app.use(cors());
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.static('public/app'));
const pool = new Pool({
host: process.env.DB_HOST,
port: parseInt(process.env.DB_PORT) || 5432,
database: process.env.DB_NAME,
user: process.env.DB_USER,
password: process.env.DB_PASSWORD,
ssl: false
});
pool.on('error', (err) => {
console.error('pg pool error', err);
});
app.use('/api', require('./routes/tables')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/sources')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/versions')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/operations')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/log')(pool));
app.use('/api', require('./routes/perspective')(pool)); // SPIKE: server-side DuckDB virtual server
const port = process.env.PORT || 3010;
app.listen(port, '0.0.0.0', () => console.log(`pf_app started on port ${port}`));