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Ref #16, closes #614

Summary

PostgreSQL now ships as a standalone plugin (TabularisDB/tabularis-postgresql-plugin) with full parity to the built-in driver, plus the host-side fixes needed for the plugin to actually be a safe, correct, first-class alternative — not just parity in isolation. This closes out the migration's Phase 0/1 work as a shippable unit.

What changed here:

  • #614 fixed — several core checks were hardcoded on driver === "postgres" and silently misbehaved for the plugin's "postgresql" driver id: broken identifier quoting, an SSL-mode dropdown that could silently connect in cleartext, wrong MCP schema defaults. Fixed across 9 commits, each independently verifiable — full breakdown and justifications on the issue thread, including a security-relevant gap found and closed during adversarial review of the fix itself before this was pushed.
  • In-tree plugin copy removed (plugins/postgres-plugin/) — stale relative to the extracted repo's beta releases; the extracted repo is now the source of truth, with its own security audit, CI hardening, and 5-platform release builds.
  • 24-item manual smoke test + full pnpm test/cargo test regression pass — done. Manual testing against the real plugin binary in the actual desktop UI surfaced one genuine bug outside Hardcoded driver === "postgres" checks in core break the standalone PostgreSQL plugin #614's scope: execute_query returned null for PostgreSQL enum values instead of the real label. Filed and fixed in the plugin repo (tabularis-postgresql-plugin#7), plus a new parity test here so the bug class can't silently reappear — parity suite is now 83/83 against the real plugin binary (v1.0.0-beta.3).
  • Synced with upstream/main (three times — 106 commits, then 15 more, then PR #588's merge) with zero unresolved conflicts each time; full regression suite reverified green after every sync. See the comment below for how the Fix PostgreSQL visual query follow-ups #588 overlap was resolved.
  • CI golden-file tautology fixedpg-integration.yml was setting REGENERATE_GOLDEN=1 unconditionally, which writes fresh output before comparing against it, so the assertion could never catch drift. Regeneration is now workflow_dispatch-only and opt-in.
  • Cleaned up superseded/out-of-scope planning docs that had accumulated on this long-lived branch.

Sign-off checklist

Item Status Where
Security audit ✅ Done Plugin repo PR #3 — 4 real gaps found & fixed
CI hardening ✅ Done Plugin repo — manifest validation, cargo audit, release-binary smoke test, live-db integration test
Cross-platform build ✅ Done Plugin repo release.yml — 5-platform matrix, smoke-tested
#614 host-side driver checks ✅ Done See issue #614 for the full breakdown
24-item manual smoke test ✅ Done Real plugin binary, real desktop UI, every result cross-checked directly against the database via psql — not just the UI's own success indicators
pnpm test / cargo test regression ✅ Done Frontend and backend suites green (only pre-existing, unrelated failures, confirmed present on unmodified main)

Not in this release

  • Phase 2 (sequences, JSONB editing, extension type system — issue Better PostgreSQL Support #16's remaining scope) happens in the plugin repo directly, tracked at tabularis-postgresql-plugin#9.
  • Phase 3 (removing the built-in driver) is a full-team-consensus decision, not something this PR decides. Tracked at tabularis#631, which also covers deleting the postgres_integration test suite and this PR's pg-integration.yml workflow once the built-in driver they protect is actually gone.
  • Registry publication (plugins/registry.json entry + a local-file install path for install_plugin) — the plugin isn't installable via Settings > Plugins yet. Out of scope here; not yet tracked by an issue.

How to Validate Locally

# Start PG 16
docker run -d --name pg-parity -p 54320:5432 \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=testdb postgres:16

# Seed
bash tests/fixtures/seed_postgres.sh

# Run baseline + golden tests (builtin only — must pass)
cd src-tauri && cargo test --test postgres_integration -- --include-ignored --test-threads=1

To re-check cross-repo parity against a real plugin build (manual, not CI):

# In a checkout of TabularisDB/tabularis-postgresql-plugin
cargo build --release

# Back in this repo
POSTGRES_PLUGIN_BIN=/path/to/tabularis-postgresql-plugin/target/release/postgresql-plugin \
  cargo test --test postgres_integration parity -- --include-ignored --test-threads=1
# Expect 83/83

Depends On

Extend the RpcDriver to forward save_blob_to_file and
fetch_blob_as_data_url to plugin processes via JSON-RPC.

Plugins that implement these methods can now handle binary data
export/preview. Plugins that do not implement them receive a graceful
fallback via is_method_not_found (same pattern as routines, triggers).
Extend the RpcDriver to forward get_materialized_views,
get_materialized_view_columns, get_materialized_view_definition,
and refresh_materialized_view to plugin processes via JSON-RPC.

Plugins that declare materialized_views capability can now serve
these queries. Plugins without support receive graceful fallbacks
via is_method_not_found (empty vec or unsupported error).
Add an optional type_mappings field to PluginManifest and ConfigManifest
that maps generic inferred types (e.g. DATETIME, JSON) to driver-specific
types (e.g. TIMESTAMP, JSONB).

The RpcDriver now overrides map_inferred_type to consult these static
mappings at lookup time. This avoids the need for an async RPC call in a
synchronous trait method.

Built-in drivers continue to use their direct trait overrides and declare
empty mappings. Existing plugins without type_mappings are unaffected
(serde default is an empty map, passthrough behavior is preserved).
- Add separate CI workflow (pg-integration.yml) with PG 16 service
- Add seed script (postgres_seed.sql + seed_postgres.sh) for test schemas
- Add integration test harness (postgres_integration/) with 22 tests:
  - schema_discovery: 4 tests (get_schemas, get_databases, get_tables)
  - column_metadata: 6 tests (PK, nullable, types, max_length, enum)
  - indexes: 4 tests (btree, unique, composite, primary key)
  - foreign_keys: 4 tests (basic, composite table, cross-schema, empty)
  - query_execution: 6 tests (basic SELECT, pagination, all types,
    null handling, DML affected_rows, batch session state)
- All tests use #[ignore] and require PG on port 54320
- Seed creates test_schema + other_schema + secondary database
- CI job is separate from main test job (temporary for plugin migration)
…database tests (WIP)

Adds remaining test modules for Phase 0 baseline. Some modules have
compilation errors due to API signature mismatches that need fixing:
- routines.rs: RoutineInfo has no specific_name field
- crud.rs: update_record takes (pk_map, col_name, value) not (data, pk_map)
- routines.rs: drop_routine and get_routine_definition signature differences

These will be fixed in the next commit.
Fix compilation errors from incorrect function signature assumptions:
- routines.rs: use RoutineInfo.routine_type (String, not Option)
- routines.rs: get_routine_definition takes routine_type param
- routines.rs: drop_routine takes routine_type not arg signature
- crud.rs: update_record takes (&pk_map, col_name, value) per-column
- crud.rs: delete_record takes &HashMap (borrow, not owned)
- triggers.rs: get_trigger_definition requires table_name param

All 56 integration tests now compile successfully.
All test modules compile and cover the full PostgreSQL driver API:
- schema_discovery: 4 tests
- column_metadata: 6 tests
- indexes: 4 tests
- foreign_keys: 4 tests
- views: 6 tests
- materialized_views: 4 tests
- routines: 6 tests
- triggers: 4 tests
- crud: 8 tests
- query_execution: 6 tests
- multi_database: 7 tests
- ddl_generation: 7 tests
- explain: 3 tests
- blob: 3 tests

Total: 72 integration tests covering every public method of the
PostgreSQL driver. All use #[ignore] and require PG on port 54320.
CI workflow (pg-integration.yml) runs them with --include-ignored.
- Fix null handling test: exclude col_uuid (has DEFAULT gen_random_uuid())
- Fix character_max_length test: accept None (driver doesn't populate it)
- Fix enum type assertion: driver returns enum('val1','val2') format
- Fix MV definition test: handle pre-existing driver bug gracefully
- Fix blob insert test: use BLOB wire format instead of hex string
- Fix trigger test: cleanup at start (idempotent against prior failed runs)
- Fix alter_view test: cleanup at start (same reason)

All 72 tests pass with --test-threads=1 against PostgreSQL 16.
Two tests were weakened in the prior commit to 'accept either behavior' —
this violates TDD principles. Tests must assert the EXACT behavior:

- character_max_length: Assert None explicitly (known driver limitation).
  The plugin must return None too. If the driver is fixed later, this test
  will correctly fail — prompting both test and plugin updates.

- MV definition: Assert the error explicitly (known driver bug on PG 16).
  The plugin must produce the same error. If the bug is fixed upstream,
  this test will correctly fail — signaling the spec has changed.

Principle: Tests ARE the specification. A passing test means the behavior
is correct. We never weaken a test to accommodate — we assert what IS.
Golden files record the exact output of driver methods against the seeded
test database. They serve as the parity contract for Phase 1 — the plugin
must produce output matching these files byte-for-byte.

Adds:
- golden_utils.rs: write_golden() and assert_golden() helpers
- golden.rs: 17 capture/compare tests covering schemas, tables, columns,
  indexes, FKs, views, MVs, routines, triggers, queries, explain, multi-db
- golden/ directory: 17 committed JSON snapshots

To regenerate golden files after driver changes:
  REGENERATE_GOLDEN=1 cargo test --test postgres_integration golden -- --include-ignored --test-threads=1

Total test count: 89 (72 integration + 17 golden)
Remove #[ignore] from the 4 existing PG integration tests:
- test_postgres_integration_flow
- test_postgres_batch_preserves_temp_table_and_transaction
- test_postgres_affected_rows_reported_correctly
- test_postgres_foreign_keys_via_pg_catalog

These tests soft-skip (eprintln + return) if PG isn't available, so they
won't break the main CI that doesn't have a PG service. They WILL run in
our pg-integration.yml workflow and in the standard cargo test flow when
a local PG is available.

MySQL tests remain #[ignore] (no MySQL in CI).

Total tests now running against PG: 89 (new suite) + 4 (existing) = 93
Includes:
- postgres-plugin-migration.md (original phased plan)
- postgres-plugin-migration-alt.md (TDD approach with multi-db from day 1)
- postgres-plugin/ directory (per-phase detailed docs)
- sqlite-improvements.md (SQLite driver audit)
- .markdownlint.json config for planning docs
Fixes critical and high issues from deep code review:

Critical:
- Use deterministic UUID in seed (fixed value, not gen_random_uuid())
  so golden files produce identical output across environments
- EXPLAIN golden test writes for documentation only (no exact assert) —
  plan costs/widths are volatile across PG versions and table stats

High:
- CRUD tests now clean up inserted rows (no state accumulation)
- Restore #[ignore] on existing integration_tests.rs PG tests
  (avoids 20s timeout penalty on normal cargo test; CI uses --include-ignored)
- CI workflow: add apt-get update before postgresql-client install
- Remove unused TABULARIS_TEST_PG env var from CI

Low:
- Golden files now include trailing newline (POSIX compliance)
- Remove unnecessary #[allow(dead_code)] on pg_params_secondary
- Rename plan docs (alt plan is now primary)
Extend the RpcDriver to forward save_blob_to_file and
fetch_blob_as_data_url to plugin processes via JSON-RPC.

Plugins that implement these methods can now handle binary data
export/preview. Plugins that do not implement them receive a graceful
fallback via is_method_not_found (same pattern as routines, triggers).
Extend the RpcDriver to forward get_materialized_views,
get_materialized_view_columns, get_materialized_view_definition,
and refresh_materialized_view to plugin processes via JSON-RPC.

Plugins that declare materialized_views capability can now serve
these queries. Plugins without support receive graceful fallbacks
via is_method_not_found (empty vec or unsupported error).
Add an optional type_mappings field to PluginManifest and ConfigManifest
that maps generic inferred types (e.g. DATETIME, JSON) to driver-specific
types (e.g. TIMESTAMP, JSONB).

The RpcDriver now overrides map_inferred_type to consult these static
mappings at lookup time. This avoids the need for an async RPC call in a
synchronous trait method.

Built-in drivers continue to use their direct trait overrides and declare
empty mappings. Existing plugins without type_mappings are unaffected
(serde default is an empty map, passthrough behavior is preserved).
…ration

# Conflicts:
#	src-tauri/src/plugins/driver.rs
The test_pool_isolation_between_databases and test_alter_view tests
failed intermittently in CI with 'connection closed' errors caused by
pool exhaustion under parallel test execution (89 tests sharing a
10-connection pool).

Add a retry_transient helper that retries up to 3 times with backoff
when the error matches known transient pool/connection messages. Apply
it to the multi-step queries in both affected tests.
Implements Phase 0 deliverable 0.3 — the parity test infrastructure that
runs identical trait method calls against multiple driver implementations
and asserts equivalent results.

The harness compares outputs via JSON serialization (serde_json::Value),
which works with any Serialize type without requiring PartialEq/Clone on
model structs and catches subtle serialization differences.

Phase 0: only DriverTarget::Builtin is registered — tests validate the
harness works correctly against the built-in driver.

Phase 1: with_plugin() adds a second target — tests then mechanically
prove the plugin produces identical outputs to the built-in driver.

13 parity tests covering: schemas, databases, tables, columns, foreign
keys, indexes, views, view definitions, materialized views, routines,
triggers, multi-database, and map_inferred_type.
Set RUST_TEST_THREADS=4 in the pg-integration workflow. With 100+
tests sharing a 10-connection pool, unrestricted parallelism causes
random 'connection closed' errors as tests race for connections.

4 threads gives reliable results: enough parallelism to keep wall-clock
time short (~3s) while staying well within the pool's capacity.
With 100+ tests sharing global connection pools (keyed by params), even
4 threads caused intermittent 'connection closed' errors. The tests
complete in ~8s sequentially — negligible CI impact — and the flakiness
is eliminated entirely.

Also add retry logic inside the parity harness for defense in depth.
ForeignKey struct uses 'column_name' not 'column'.
Add 10 new golden capture tests covering:
- get_view_columns_active_users
- get_mv_definition (materialized view definition)
- get_mv_columns (materialized view columns)
- get_routine_parameters_add_numbers
- get_routine_definition_add_numbers
- get_trigger_definition_audit
- execute_query_with_pagination
- explain_analyze
- count_query

CI now runs with REGENERATE_GOLDEN=1 and uploads the golden/ directory
as an artifact. Once downloaded and committed, all golden assertions
will be active.
The built-in driver's get_materialized_view_definition fails with
'error serializing parameter 0' on PG 16 (regclass cast bug). The
golden test now captures whatever the driver returns (success or error)
as the parity expectation.
9 new golden snapshots capturing the built-in PostgreSQL driver output:
- get_view_columns_active_users.json
- get_mv_columns.json
- get_mv_definition.json (captures known regclass error)
- get_routine_parameters_add_numbers.json
- get_routine_definition_add_numbers.json
- get_trigger_definition_audit.json
- execute_query_with_pagination.json
- explain_analyze.json
- count_query.json

Total golden files: 26 (17 existing + 9 new).
These serve as the parity contract for Phase 1.
Phase 0 is done:
- 102 integration tests passing in CI (target was 70+)
- 26 golden files committed (covers all data-retrieval methods)
- Parity harness with dual-target support ready for Phase 1
- 2 consecutive green CI runs

DDL golden files removed from scope: DDL generation is validated
structurally in ddl_generation.rs, not by byte-exact golden match.
Exact-match goldens for SQL output create brittle tests that break on
whitespace without catching real bugs.
…hunk 2/3)

Adds get_routine_parameters, get_routine_definition, get_trigger_definition,
create_trigger, drop_trigger — ports the builtin's exact catalog queries
(pg_get_functiondef/pg_get_triggerdef for byte-identical definitions,
information_schema.parameters + a synthetic OUT parameter for function
return types).

drop_trigger uses the plugin's quote_identifier/qualified helpers rather
than the builtin's raw (unquoted) identifier interpolation — the two
never need to match SQL text since the method returns (), only behavior.

Wires create_trigger/drop_trigger into rpc.rs's dispatch table
(previously hardcoded to not_implemented).

Parity: 81/82 (was 76/82). Remaining 2 RED tests are BLOB (chunk 3).
Adds save_blob_to_file, fetch_blob_as_data_url — a single-column SELECT
filtered by primary key, identical query shape to the builtin's
save_blob_column_to_file/fetch_blob_column_as_data_url. Adds infer as a
new plugin dependency for MIME-type sniffing (matches the builtin's
encode_blob_full).

Extracts build_pk_map_predicate into binding.rs (composite-PK WHERE
clause, sorted keys, per-column bind_pk_value) — previously duplicated
almost verbatim in exec_update and exec_delete. Both BLOB handlers and
the two CRUD handlers now share it, removing ~30 lines of duplication.

Adds query_typed to client.rs (query-side counterpart to execute_typed,
same prepare_typed rationale) since blob lookups run a typed SELECT
rather than a mutation.

3 new unit tests for encode_blob_full in a sibling blob_tests.rs
(.rules/rust.md TabularisDB#4/TabularisDB#5): size/mime/base64 encoding, empty input, and
magic-byte MIME sniffing.

Parity: 82/82 — full CP-4 gate met (82/82 parity, 72/72 baseline,
26/26 golden, 72 plugin unit tests).
…ruth

TabularisDB/tabularis-postgresql-plugin has been extracted and is ahead
of this copy (v1.0.0-beta.2 includes the TabularisDB#618 keyless-table WHERE-binding
fix that never landed here), so this crate no longer serves as a valid
parity baseline — the plugin repo's own CI (build/clippy/fmt/security
audit/live-db integration) already covers what the in-tree build step
and 82 parity tests were doing.

Drops the plugin-build step and parity job from pg-integration.yml;
keeps the baseline + golden tests, which remain meaningful for as long
as the builtin driver exists. Cross-repo parity re-verification stays a
manual check (POSTGRES_PLUGIN_BIN against a real release binary), per
the plugin repo's own CLAUDE.md.

Also fixes two test call sites (ddl_generation.rs, parity_ddl.rs) left
broken by the upstream/main merge, which added a `params` argument to
get_create_foreign_key_sql (TabularisDB#576), and regenerates 4 golden fixtures
for the `is_generated` column-metadata field added upstream after these
fixtures were captured. Full postgres_integration suite verified
180/180 green against a live PostgreSQL 16 instance.
…isDB#614)

The SSL mode dropdown branched on `driver === "postgres"` literally, so a
postgres-compatible driver registered under a different id (e.g. the
standalone PostgreSQL plugin, id "postgresql") fell into the MySQL-style
branch. Since the plugin's own TLS check only recognizes the Postgres-style
hyphenated ssl_mode values, this silently connects in cleartext when a user
selects "Required"/"Verify CA".

Switches the three branches (default value, options list, labels) to check
`activeDriver.capabilities.sql_dialect === "postgres"` instead, requiring an
explicit declaration (no fallback default) so plugins that omit the field —
which is most of them today — aren't silently reclassified.
Fixing the SSL mode dropdown only stops new saves from getting the wrong
value. A plugin-driven Postgres connection saved before that fix, using the
MySQL-style underscored value the dropdown offered at the time ("required",
"verify_ca", etc.), stays silently cleartext forever — the plugin's TLS
check only matches the hyphenated spelling ("require", "verify-ca").

Adds a one-time, idempotent migration on connection load, following the
existing migrate_ssh_connections pattern: resolves each non-builtin
connection's driver dialect once, rewrites any stale MySQL-style ssl_mode
value to its Postgres-style equivalent, and re-saves. Builtin "postgres"
connections are excluded — their dropdown was always correct.
)

Three MCP tool handlers defaulted the schema to "public" by checking
`conn.params.driver == "postgres"` literally, so a postgres-compatible
driver registered under a different id (e.g. the standalone PostgreSQL
plugin) never got the default and behaved differently than the builtin
driver on the same database.

Extracts the shared decision into resolve_default_schema(), keyed off
`driver.manifest().capabilities.sql_dialect == SqlDialect::Postgres`
instead — deliberately not the broader `schemas` capability, which also
covers non-Postgres multi-schema engines that would want a different
default schema name.
)

shouldQuoteIdentifiers() (and everything that funnels through it —
quoteIdentifier, formatSqlIdentifier, quoteTableRef) checked
`driver === "postgres"` literally, so a postgres-compatible driver
registered under a different id (e.g. the standalone PostgreSQL plugin,
id "postgresql") never got its identifiers quoted, producing broken SQL
for mixed-case or reserved-word columns.

Widens all four functions to accept the same
`string | PluginManifest | DriverCapabilities` union getQuoteChar()
already had. When given an object, checks `sql_dialect === "postgres"`
(defaulting to "postgres" when the field is omitted, matching the manifest
schema's own documented default and the existing sqlSplitter precedent) —
not `identifier_quote === '"'`, which sqlite also uses and would otherwise
get wrongly swept in. Bare-string callers keep the literal fallback
unchanged, so nothing regresses for existing driver-string call sites
before they're threaded onto the new object-based path.
Swaps activeDriver for activeCapabilities ?? activeDriver at call sites
that already had capabilities in scope (Editor.tsx's handleSort,
ExplorerSidebar.tsx's delete-table confirmation), and fixes two related
bugs found during the TabularisDB#614 investigation that weren't in the original
issue text:

- tableToolbar.ts's formatSortClause had its own separate
  `driver !== "postgres"` check, never routed through
  shouldQuoteIdentifiers — now delegates to it, so it inherits the
  dialect-based fix instead of needing a second one.
- connections.ts's getDefaultPort/getDriverLabel fell back to port 0 and
  an all-caps label for any driver id they didn't recognize by literal
  string match. Rather than adding a second literal case, widens both to
  accept a PluginManifest and read its own default_port/name fields
  directly — fields that already existed on the manifest but were never
  wired to a caller.

TableToolbar.tsx's ~12 identifier-quoting call sites are consolidated
through one derived `quotingDriver` (activeCapabilities ?? activeDriver)
value instead of repeating the fallback at each site.
…DB#614)

SidebarColumnItem only received a bare `driver` id string, so its
identifier-quoting calls never saw a postgres-compatible driver's
manifest — same for TriggerEditorModal's quoteIdentifier fallback.

Threads a new `capabilities` prop through ExplorerSidebar ->
SidebarTableItem/SidebarViewItem -> SidebarColumnItem, and into
TriggerEditorModal, preferring it over the bare driver id wherever both
are available. Leaves TriggerEditorModal's separate `isMysql` check
untouched — that's a different capability axis (schema qualification in
CREATE TRIGGER, not identifier quoting) and out of scope for this issue.

Also adds `capabilities` to sidebarTableItem.ts's React.memo comparator
(areTableItemPropsEqual) — without it, a capabilities-only update would
have been silently skipped by memo, serving stale quoting behavior. This
is the one change in the whole issue where a missed spot would have
caused a real bug rather than a type error.
…risDB#614)

Widens the driver parameter on visualQuery.ts (Visual Query Builder SQL
generation), autocomplete.ts (Monaco SQL completion), foreignKeys.ts /
useReferencedRecord.ts / RelatedRecordsPanel.tsx (foreign-key row
preview), and databaseObjectActions.ts / objectPaletteItems.ts /
quickNavigator.ts (command palette and sidebar context-menu object
navigation) to accept a PluginManifest/DriverCapabilities object, not
just a bare driver id string.

Each caller already had activeCapabilities (or an equivalent
connectionData.capabilities) in scope — this closes the last capability-
driven gaps in the identifier-quoting chain: a postgres-compatible driver
registered under a different id now quotes identically to the builtin
"postgres" driver in autocomplete suggestions, visual query generation,
FK row preview, and every object-navigation action (new console, count
rows, show data).
Adversarial security review of the TabularisDB#614 SSL-mode fixes surfaced a real,
currently-live gap (confirmed empirically, not just theoretically):
DriverCapabilities.sql_dialect was typed as a plain SqlDialect with
#[serde(default)] backed by impl Default -> Postgres. That default was
introduced pre-TabularisDB#614 for the frontend statement splitter, where
"unspecified means postgres" was the correct, harmless behavior at the
time. This branch's new SSL-mode dropdown check and stale-value
migration then read that same field expecting it to distinguish
"explicitly declared postgres" from "said nothing" -- but by the time a
plugin manifest reaches either of those checks, Serde has already
collapsed both cases to the identical Postgres value, so there was
nothing left to distinguish.

The Oracle plugin is a live example: it sets supports_ssl: true and
declares no sql_dialect. Before this commit, it would have been silently
routed into Postgres-style SSL mode values by the dropdown, and any
saved connection using it would have been rewritten by the migration --
both based on a default that was never actually declared.

Changes sql_dialect to Option<SqlDialect> with skip_serializing_if, so
"declared" and "absent" are genuinely distinguishable end to end: a
manifest that omits the field now deserializes to None and is omitted
from the JSON sent to the frontend, rather than arriving as the literal
string "postgres". The three builtin drivers now wrap their explicit
declarations in Some(...). The SSL dropdown check and migration were
already written to treat only Some(Postgres) as true; the change is
that None now actually means None. The frontend needs no changes --
sql_dialect?: Dialect was already optional there, and other consumers
(the statement splitter) keep their own explicit `?? "postgres"`
fallback at the point of use, unaffected by this change.

Verified via a temporary test (added, run, and removed -- not part of
this commit) that reproduced the Oracle scenario exactly: a manifest
capabilities JSON with supports_ssl: true and sql_dialect omitted now
deserializes to None and is dropped from re-serialized JSON, where it
previously arrived as "postgres". Added a permanent regression test
(migrate_connection_ssl_mode_leaves_a_resolved_driver_with_no_declared_dialect_alone)
covering the same scenario for the migration path.
…abularisDB#614)

The host/port grid rendered 4 columns for driver === "postgres" and 3
for everything else, so a non-builtin driver whose manifest declares
the postgres SQL dialect (e.g. the standalone PostgreSQL plugin, id
"postgresql") got a 3-column grid instead — the same two fields (host,
port) laid out with a different column count than the builtin driver
uses for them. Originally scoped out of this issue as purely cosmetic;
on reconsideration it's a real, visible layout inconsistency between
the builtin driver and the plugin, in the same category as everything
else this issue is fixing, so it's in scope too.

Reuses the isPostgresDialect check already added for the SSL mode
dropdown instead of introducing a second capability check.
Manual smoke testing of the plugin found a real bug: execute_query
returned null for a PostgreSQL enum column value, even though the
database held a genuine non-null value. Filed as
tabularis-postgresql-plugin#7 and fixed there (35a438a) — this adds
the missing parity test so the class of bug can't silently reappear.

The 82 existing parity tests only covered *writing* enum values
(insert_record/update_record binding) and enum *metadata*
(get_columns via pg_enum). Nothing exercised reading an enum value
back through execute_query, so a plugin that silently nulled out
enum SELECTs passed all 82 anyway.

Verified the test is a real regression guard, not just a happy-path
check: built the plugin at its pre-fix commit in an isolated git
worktree and confirmed assert_parity fails with the exact left="happy"
(builtin) vs right=null (broken plugin) mismatch. Rebuilt against the
current, fixed commit and confirmed it passes. 83/83 parity tests
green against the real plugin binary.
- Remove superseded/out-of-scope planning docs (postgres-plugin-migration-original.md,
  postgres-improvements.md, sqlite-improvements.md) and fix the phase-docs README's
  dangling link to the renamed master plan doc.
- Fix pg-integration.yml: CI was setting REGENERATE_GOLDEN=1 unconditionally, which
  writes fresh golden output *before* comparing against it — the assertion could
  never catch drift. Regeneration is now workflow_dispatch-only, opt-in, and uploads
  as an artifact for manual review instead of validating against itself.
@aesslinger aesslinger changed the title feat: PostgreSQL plugin — from built-in driver to standalone plugin (Issue #16) feat: PostgreSQL plugin reaches parity + safety with built-in driver (#614) Aug 13, 2026
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Status: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Files Reviewed (focus: #614 capability-driven fixes)

Rust backend

  • src-tauri/src/commands.rs — stale ssl_mode spelling migration (idempotent, dialect-aware, builtin postgres excluded)
  • src-tauri/src/drivers/driver_trait.rssql_dialect -> Option<SqlDialect> (absent ≠ postgres)
  • src-tauri/src/drivers/{mysql,postgres,sqlite}/mod.rs — wrap explicit dialects in Some(..)
  • src-tauri/src/mcp/mod.rsresolve_default_schema keyed off dialect (3 call sites)
  • src-tauri/src/mcp/tests.rs

Frontend (#614 identifier-quoting + SSL + layout)

  • src/utils/identifiers.tsshouldQuoteIdentifiers/getQuoteChar/quoteIdentifier/quoteTableRef/formatSqlIdentifier accept manifest/capabilities
  • src/utils/connections.tsgetDefaultPort/getDriverLabel accept PluginManifest
  • src/utils/{filterBar,tableToolbar,sidebarTableItem,autocomplete,databaseObjectActions,editor,foreignKeys,newConsole,objectPaletteItems,quickNavigator,visualQuery}.ts
  • src/components/modals/NewConnectionModal.tsx — SSL dropdown, host/port grid keyed off isPostgresDialect
  • src/components/modals/TriggerEditorModal.tsx
  • src/components/ui/{TableToolbar,RelatedRecordsPanel,VisualQueryBuilder}.tsx
  • src/components/layout/ExplorerSidebar.tsx + sidebar/{SidebarColumnItem,SidebarTableItem,SidebarViewItem}.tsx
  • src/hooks/{useReferencedRecord,useDatabaseObjectNavigation,useCommandPaletteObjectItems,useSqlAutocompleteRegistration}.ts
  • src/pages/Editor.tsx

CI / tests

  • .github/workflows/pg-integration.yml — golden regeneration now workflow_dispatch-only (tautology fixed)
  • src-tauri/tests/postgres_integration/* (parity, golden, enum-value regression), tests/fixtures/postgres_seed.sql, seed_postgres.sh

Notes: The capability-driven refactor is consistent end-to-end: security-relevant checks (SSL dropdown + stale-value migration, MCP public default) require an explicit Some(Postgres)/sql_dialect === "postgres" declaration and correctly treat an unspecified dialect as non-postgres (commit 65 closes the Oracle-style silent-cleartext gap). The historical postgres-default for the statement splitter / identifier quoting is preserved at its points of use, with the asymmetry clearly documented. The SSL migration is idempotent, scoped to non-builtin postgres-dialect connections, and re-saves only when a rewrite occurs. Golden-file CI no longer regenerates before comparing. All reviewed changes look correct and well-covered by tests.


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Resolves the shouldQuoteIdentifiers/visualQuery.ts conflict with TabularisDB#588 per
debba's instructions on that PR: keep the sql_dialect-based capability check
as the primary path, but widen the literal-string fallback to also cover
"postgresql" so TabularisDB#588's original driver-id fix isn't lost when no manifest is
in scope. Also widens formatAggregateArgument/formatHavingColumnRef/
formatAlias/generateHavingClause (all new in TabularisDB#588) to the shared DriverArg
type so they inherit the same capability-driven quoting, verified against a
postgres-dialect plugin manifest producing byte-identical HAVING-clause
output to the bare "postgres" string.
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upstream/main synced — PR #588 merged as a prerequisite, conflict resolved per @debba's instructions

PR #588 (fix-postgres-vqb-followups) merged to main and has now been merged into this branch. As flagged in my earlier comment on that PR, it touched the same shouldQuoteIdentifiers function in src/utils/identifiers.ts that #614's fix changed here, so the merge produced real conflicts in 3 files (src/utils/identifiers.ts, tests/utils/identifiers.test.ts, tests/utils/visualQuery.test.ts; src/utils/visualQuery.ts auto-merged but needed a follow-up pass — see below).

@debba's resolution decision: merge #588 first (its HAVING/alias-quoting fixes are net-new, real bugs users hit today, no reason to hold them behind this larger migration), then resolve the conflict here by keeping the sql_dialect-based capability check as the long-term version of shouldQuoteIdentifiers, making sure the literal-string fallback still covers "postgresql" so #588's original fix isn't lost, and widening the new helper functions' driver params in the same pass.

What was done, matching each instruction:

  1. Kept the sql_dialect-based check as primary. shouldQuoteIdentifiers still checks capabilities.sql_dialect first when a manifest/capabilities object is available — unchanged from this branch's Hardcoded driver === "postgres" checks in core break the standalone PostgreSQL plugin #614 fix.
  2. Fixed the string fallback to cover "postgresql". The initial merge resolution (mine, before catching this) had left the no-manifest fallback as bare driver === "postgres" — which would have silently dropped Fix PostgreSQL visual query follow-ups #588's fix for any caller that only has a driver id string in scope, no manifest. Caught this against debba's comment before committing and fixed it to driver === "postgres" || driver === "postgresql". Updated the one test that had asserted the old (wrong) behavior.
  3. Widened the new helpers in the same pass. formatAggregateArgument, formatHavingColumnRef, formatAlias (all net-new from Fix PostgreSQL visual query follow-ups #588), and generateHavingClause's driver param were typed string | null | undefined after the auto-merge — narrower than this branch's DriverArg union (string | PluginManifest | DriverCapabilities | null | undefined). Widened all four to DriverArg so they inherit the same capability-driven quoting as everything else in the module.
  4. Verified end-to-end, not just by type-checking: added a throwaway test (run, confirmed passing, then deleted — never committed) proving a postgres-dialect plugin manifest produces byte-identical HAVING clause output to the bare "postgres" string via generateHavingClause, and that "mysql" correctly stays unquoted. This is the exact scenario Hardcoded driver === "postgres" checks in core break the standalone PostgreSQL plugin #614 exists to fix — a plugin driver id that isn't the literal string "postgres" — now proven to work for Fix PostgreSQL visual query follow-ups #588's new HAVING/alias code too, not just the pre-existing quoting paths.

Verification after resolving:

  • pnpm tsc --noEmit — clean
  • pnpm vitest run tests/utils/identifiers.test.ts tests/utils/visualQuery.test.ts — 110/110 passing (both PRs' test cases preserved, nothing dropped from either side)
  • Full frontend suite: 3717/3750 passing (33 failures are pre-existing/environmental — localStorage.clear() undefined in this local test environment — independently confirmed present on a clean, unmodified upstream/main checkout before this merge, unrelated to either PR)
  • pnpm tsc --noEmit + full suite re-run post-commit to confirm the committed state matches what was verified pre-commit

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@debba — this is ready for your final review.

Summary: PostgreSQL now ships as a standalone plugin with full parity to the built-in driver, plus the host-side fixes (#614) needed for the plugin to be a safe, correct, first-class alternative — not just parity in isolation.

Status:

  • Hardcoded driver === "postgres" checks in core break the standalone PostgreSQL plugin #614 fixed (9 commits, each independently verifiable — identifier quoting, SSL-mode dropdown, MCP schema defaults, plus a security-relevant gap found and closed during self-review)
  • 24-item manual smoke test done against the real plugin binary in the actual desktop UI, every result cross-checked directly against the database
  • Full pnpm test / cargo test regression pass green (only pre-existing, unrelated failures)
  • Synced with main three times, most recently to pull in #588 — that conflict was resolved per your instructions on that PR (kept the sql_dialect-based check, restored the "postgresql" string fallback, widened the new HAVING/alias helpers to the same capability-driven type); details in this comment
  • CI green (test, test-postgres), no merge conflicts with main

Deferred/out-of-scope items (Phase 2, Phase 3 deprecation decision, registry publication) are tracked separately — see the "Not in this release" section in the PR description.

Let me know if you'd like anything else looked at before merging.

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@aesslinger Great work overall. I verified this PR locally against PostgreSQL 16 and the actual v1.0.0-beta.3 Linux release binary: the cross-driver parity suite is genuinely 83/83 green, and the full frontend/backend suites pass.

Before approval, I think these items should be addressed:

  1. The parity harness can false-green when the plugin path is wrong. In src-tauri/tests/postgres_integration/parity.rs, setting POSTGRES_PLUGIN_BIN to a nonexistent file logs a warning, skips the plugin, and runs only against the builtin driver. I reproduced this with:

    POSTGRES_PLUGIN_BIN=/tmp/definitely-missing-plugin \
      cargo test --test postgres_integration parity_tests::parity_get_databases \
      -- --include-ignored --test-threads=1

    The test passes. If the variable is explicitly set, a missing/unstartable binary should fail immediately.

  2. Missing golden files are silently accepted. assert_golden() in golden_utils.rs returns successfully when a fixture does not exist. Outside explicit regeneration mode, a missing/renamed golden file should fail so accidental deletions and filename typos cannot leave CI green.

  3. Four React hook dependency warnings remain in Editor.tsx. The callbacks now consume the full activeCapabilities object but only list activeCapabilities?.schemas in their dependency arrays (around lines 345, 1145, 1540, and 2175). ESLint reports four react-hooks/exhaustive-deps warnings; this also conflicts with .rules/react.md rule 1 and can retain stale quoting capabilities.

  4. Formatting/warning cleanup: cargo fmt --all -- --check currently fails on PR-added/modified Rust code, the PostgreSQL integration target emits 50 unused-import/variable warnings, and git diff --check reports an extra blank line at EOF in src-tauri/src/mcp/tests.rs.

Verification performed:

  • pnpm test -- --run: 3750/3750 passed
  • cargo test --lib: 1142 passed, 4 ignored
  • PostgreSQL 16 integration suite: 181/181 passed
  • Actual plugin v1.0.0-beta.3 parity: 83/83 passed
  • pnpm exec tsc --noEmit: passed

The functional work looks solid; my request-changes recommendation is about making the new safety gates reliably fail when their prerequisites or fixtures are missing, plus the repository-rule cleanup above.

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@aesslinger One additional, non-blocking question: do you want to keep the .github/planning/ documents in the repository after this PR merges as historical/project documentation, or would you prefer to remove the completed migration plans before merge? They would remain available in Git history either way, while removing them would keep the current tree focused on active documentation. I do not have a strong preference, but it would be useful to make that choice explicit.

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