Feature: Range queries on record ids should be ergonomic and fast about surrealdb

[tobiemh]

Thanks for this @finnbear!

So at a quick glance, idea 1 would be the way we would want to go.

We already have (not yet documented) things called models. These are designed purely for testing (generating a large amount of records in a simple query), but make use of a range operator in the query parser...

CREATE |person:1000|; -- Create 1000 randomly generated people records
CREATE |person:1..1000|; -- Create 1000 people records with IDs from 1 to 1000

Just to summarise, we shouldn't go with ideas 2 or 3 because:

• the range query is generated from the FROM clause and not from the WHERE clause
• we would have to ensure the user creates indexes for the id field (which isn't and shouldn't be necessary)
• I prefer the syntax of idea 1, as it fits more inline with the current SurrealQL concepts