This is repo for the egglog
tool accompanying the paper
"Better Together: Unifying Datalog and Equality Saturation"
(ACM DL, arXiv).
If you use this work, please use this citation.
See also the Python binding, which provides a bit more documentation: https://egg-smol-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
There is a Zulip chat about egglog here: https://egraphs.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/328979-Implementation/topic/Eggsmol
apt-get install make cargo
cargo install cargo-nextest
make all
cargo run [-f fact-path] [-naive] [--to-json] <files.egg>
or just
cargo run
for the REPL.
There is a VS Code extension in the vscode folder. Install using 'Install from VSIX...' in the three-dot menu of the extensions tab and pick vscode/vscode/egglog.vsix
.
If you want to hack on the VS Code extension, install nodejs, and make your changes in the files in the vscode/egglog-1.0.0
folder.
Then run
code vscode/egglog-1.0.0
and use F5 to run the extension in a new window. When satisfied, then install VSCE if you do not already have it:
npm install -g @vscode/vsce
Run vsce package
in the vscode/egglog-1.0.0
folder to reconstruct the .vsix file and install it manually.
To run the tests use make test
.
The syntax of the .egg files is defined in src/ast/parse.lalrpop
.
Declare a datatype with this syntax:
( datatype <name:Ident> <variants:(Variant)*> )
where variants are:
( <name:Ident> <types:(Type)*> <cost:Cost> )
Example:
(datatype Math
(Num i64)
(Var String)
(Add Math Math)
(Mul Math Math))
defines a simple Math
datatype with variants for numbers, named variables, addition and multiplication.
Datatypes are also known as algebraic data types, tagged unions and sum types.
( function <name:Ident> <schema:Schema> <cost:Cost>
(:on_merge <List<Action>>)?
(:merge <Expr>)?
(:default <Expr>)?
Defines a named function with a type schema, an optional integer cost, and an optional :on_merge
or :merge
expression, which can refer to old
and new
values. You can also provide a default value using :default
.
Example:
(function add (Math Math) Math)
defines a function add
which adds two Math
datatypes and gives a Math
as the result.
Functions are basically lookup tables from input tuples to the output. They can be considered as a kind of database table.
Explicit function values can be defined using set
:
(function Fib (i64) i64)
(set (Fib 0) 0)
(set (Fib 1) 1)
You can extract the value of specific points of the function using extract
:
(extract (Fib 1))
If you define a :merge
expression, you can update specific values in the function, and the function relation will be updated using the merge expression:
(function KeepMax (i64) i64 :merge (max new old)); when updated, keep the biggest value
(set (KeepMax 0) 0)
(set (KeepMax 1) 1)
(set (KeepMax 1) 2) ; we redefine 1 to be 2
(set (KeepMax 1) 0) ; this does not change since we use max
(extract (KeepMax 1)) ; this is 2
declare
is syntactic sugar allowing for the declaration of constants.
For example, the following program:
(sort Bool)
(declare True Bool)
Desugars to:
(sort Bool)
(function True_table () Bool)
(let True (True_table))
Note that declare inserts the constant into the database, so rules can use the constant directly as a variable.
The relation
is syntactic sugar for a named function which returns the Unit
type.
( relation <name:Ident> <types:List<Type>> )
Thus (relation <name> <args>)
is equivalent to (function <name> <args> Unit)
.
Example:
(relation path (i64 i64))
(relation edge (i64 i64))
Desugars to:
(function path (i64 i64) Unit)
(function edge (i64 i64) Unit)
Define a path
and an edge
relation between two i64
s.
(edge 1 2)
(edge 2 3)
inserts two edges into the store for the edge
function. If your function is relation between the inputs, use relation
and the above syntax to define the relations, since there is no syntax to define a unit value using set
.
( let <name:Ident> <expr:Expr> )
defines a named value. This is the same as a 0-arity function with a given, singular value.
Example:
(let one 1)
(let two 2)
(let three (+ one two))
(extract three); extracts 3 as a i64
( rule <body:List<Fact>> <head:List<Action>> )
defines a rule, which matches a list of facts, and runs a bunch of actions. It is useful to maintain invariants and inductive definitions.
Example:
(rule ((edge x y))
((path x y)))
(rule ((path x y) (edge y z))
((path x z)))
These rules maintains path relations for a graph: If there is an edge from x
to y
, there is also a path from x
to y
. Transitivity is handled by the second rule: If there is a path from x
to y
and there is an edge from y
to z
, there is also a path from x
and z
.
Ruleset allows users to define a ruleset- a set of rules
that can be run using the run
command.
Example:
(ruleset myrules)
(rule ((edge x y))
((path x y))
:ruleset myrules)
(run myrules 2)
( extract <variants:(:variants <UNum>)?> <e:Expr> )
where variants are:
( <name:Ident> <types:(Type)*> <cost:Cost> )
The extract
queries the store to find the cheapest values matching the expression.
rewrite
is syntactic sugar for a specific form of rule
which simply unions the left and right hand sides.
( rewrite <lhs:Expr> <rhs:Expr>
<conditions:(:when <List<Fact>>)?>
)
defines a rule which matches the lhs
expressions, and rewrites them to the rhs
expression. It is possible to guard the rewrite with a condition that has to be satisfied before the rule applies.
( birewrite <lhs:Expr> <rhs:Expr>
<conditions:(:when <List<Fact>>)?>
)
does the same, but where both directions apply.
Example:
(rewrite (Add a b)
(Add b a))
declares a rule that a Add
variant is commutative.
(birewrite (* (* a b) c) (* a (* b c)))
declares a rule that multiplication is associative in both directions.
( check <Fact> )
( fail <Command> )
This evaluates the fact and checks that it is true.
Example:
(check (= (+ 1 2) 3))
(check (<= 0 3) (>= 3 0))
(fail (check (= 1 2)))
prints
[INFO ] Checked.
[INFO ] Checked.
[ERROR] Check failed
[INFO ] Command failed as expected.
Egglog supports several experimental options
that can be set using the set-option
command.
For example, (set-option node_limit 1000)
sets a hard limit on the number of "nodes" or rows in the database.
Once this limit is reached, no egglog stops running rules.
Other options supported include:
- "interactive_mode" (default: false): when enabled, egglog prints "(done)" after each command, allowing an external tool to know when each command has finished running.
( set ( <f: Ident> <args:Expr*> ) <v:Expr> )
( delete ( <f: Ident> <args:Expr*> ) )
( union <e1:Expr> <e2:Expr> )
( panic <msg:String> )
( let <name:Ident> <expr:Expr> )
The underlying data structure maintained by egglog is an e-graph. That means that specific values can be unified to be equivalent. To extract a value, use extract
and it will extract the cheapest option according to the costs.
(datatype Math (Num i64))
(union (Num 1) (Num 2)); Define that Num 1 and Num 2 are equivalent
(extract (Num 1)); Extracts Num 1
(extract (Num 2)); Extracts Num 1
Union only works on variants, not sorts.
[ <Ident> ]
( = <mut es:Expr+> <e:Expr> )
<Expr>
These are conditions used in check and other commands. There is no boolean type in egglog. Instead, boolean are modelled morally as Option<Unit>
, so if something is true, it is Some<()>
. If something is false, it does not match and is None
.
integer
string
identifier
call: ( <head:Ident> <tail:(Expr)*> )
Signed 64-bit integers supporting these primitives:
+ - * / % ; arithmetic
& | ^ << >> not-i64 ; bit-wise operations
< > <= >= ; comparisons
min max log2
to-f64
64-bit floating point numbers supporting these primitives:
+ - * / % ; arithmetic
< > <= >= ; comparisons
min max neg
to-i64
A map from a key type to a value type supporting these primitives:
empty
insert
get
not-contains
contains
set-union
set-diff
set-intersect
map-remove
Rational numbers (fractions) with 64-bit precision for numerator and denominator with these primitives:
+ - * / ; arithmetic
min max neg abs floor ceil round
rational ; construct from a numerator and denominator
pow log sqrt
< > <= >= ; comparisons
These primitives are only defined when the result itself is a pure rational.
Use double quotes to get a quote: "Foo "" Bar"
is Foo " Bar
.
No primitives defined.