Email Assistant: Convert Natural Language to SQL Queries with Phi4-mini and PostgreSQL
# Who is this for? **Humans** and **Robots** alike. This workflow can be used as a **Chat trigger**, as well as a **Workflow trigger**. It will take a natural language request, and then generate a `SQL` query. The resulting `query` parameter will contain the query, and a `sqloutput` parameter will contain the results of executing such a query. ## What's the use case? This template is most useful paired with other workflows that extract e-mail information and store it in a structured Postgres table, and use LLMs to understand inquiries about information contained in an e-mail inbox and formulate questions that need answering. Plus, the prompt can be easily adapted to formulate SQL queries over any kind of structured database. ## Privacy and Economics As an LLM provider, I'm using **Ollama** locally, as I consider my e-mail extremely sensitive information. As a model, [`phi4-mini`](https://ollama.com/library/phi4-mini) does an excellent job balancing quality and efficiency. ## Setup Upon running for the first time, this workflow will **automatically** trigger a sub-section to read all tables and extract their schema into a local file. Then, either by **chatting** with the workflow in n8n's interface or by using it as a **sub-workflow**, you will get a `query` and a `sqloutput` response. ## Customizations If you want to work with just one particular table yet keep edits at bay, append a condition to the `List all tables in a database` step, like so: ```sql WHERE table_schema=public AND table_name=my_emails_table_name ``` To repurpose this workflow to work with any other data corpus in a structured database, inspect the `AI Agent` **user** and **system** prompts and edit them accordingly.
Who is this for?
Humans and Robots alike.
This workflow can be used as a Chat trigger, as well as a Workflow trigger.
It will take a natural language request, and then generate a SQL query. The resulting query parameter will contain the query, and a sqloutput parameter will contain the results of executing such a query.
What's the use case?
This template is most useful paired with other workflows that extract e-mail information and store it in a structured Postgres table, and use LLMs to understand inquiries about information contained in an e-mail inbox and formulate questions that need answering.
Plus, the prompt can be easily adapted to formulate SQL queries over any kind of structured database.
Privacy and Economics
As an LLM provider, I'm using Ollama locally, as I consider my e-mail extremely sensitive information. As a model, phi4-mini does an excellent job balancing quality and efficiency.
Setup
Upon running for the first time, this workflow will automatically trigger a sub-section to read all tables and extract their schema into a local file.
Then, either by chatting with the workflow in n8n's interface or by using it as a sub-workflow, you will get a query and a sqloutput response.
Customizations
If you want to work with just one particular table yet keep edits at bay, append a condition to the List all tables in a database step, like so:
WHERE table_schema=public AND table_name=my_emails_table_name
To repurpose this workflow to work with any other data corpus in a structured database, inspect the AI Agent user and system prompts and edit them accordingly.
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