Stop formatting valid SQL into SQL that no longer parses - #56
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Fixes #54. 33 statements from the PostgreSQL documentation formatted into output that libpgfmt itself cannot re-parse. Each was a dropped or mangled clause, and format() returned Ok every time, so the caller got SQL the server would reject with nothing to signal it. Ten families, all the same shape as #46 and #51 — a formatter enumerates the node kinds it knows and discards the rest: - Alias column lists. `AS t(col type, ...)` collapsed to a bare `AS` and `AS s(i)` became `AS s i`. func_alias_clause was never routed to the alias formatter, and neither name_list nor TableFuncElementList was handled. 19 of the 33. - Window frames. `OVER (ORDER BY x RANGE BETWEEN 5 PRECEDING AND 10 FOLLOWING)` kept the RANGE and lost the extent. - CROSS and NATURAL joins. Both hang off joined_table rather than join_type, so `CROSS JOIN` became a bare `JOIN`, which requires ON or USING. - Multi-column UPDATE. `SET (a, b) = (...)` looked for a set_target and found a set_target_list, emitting `SET = ...` with every column name gone; the parenthesised row on the right lost its parens and a bare DEFAULT element. - ON CONFLICT DO SELECT. Every non-NOTHING form was treated as DO UPDATE, so the PG19 DO SELECT form came out as `DO UPDATE SET` with an empty SET. - IS JSON modifiers. SCALAR/OBJECT/ARRAY and WITH/WITHOUT UNIQUE KEYS were dropped, leaving `IS JSON` or a dangling `IS JSON WITH`. - TABLESAMPLE arguments, and EXTRACT's source operand. - Line comments inside a passed-through statement. Collapsing the newlines folded the rest of the statement into the comment. - pg_dump: a data-modifying CTE rendered as `WITH t AS ()`, and collapsing a newline between two string constants changed their meaning, since PostgreSQL joins them only across a line break. Also fixes river_line re-indenting continuation lines that fall inside a string literal, which rewrote the literal's value on every pass. Measured against the 1,781 statements extracted from doc/src/sgml: output that no longer parses 33 -> 0 (all eight styles) statements losing tokens 154 -> 129 parse failures 53 -> 53 The 33 statements are committed as a fixture with a test that formats each one in every style and re-formats the result, so this class cannot regress silently. One statement is excluded from the accompanying idempotence check: a VALUES row holding a string literal with an embedded newline still gains a space of indentation per pass, which is layout drift rather than unparseable output and is tracked separately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/formatter/pgdump.rs`:
- Line 467: Update the statement formatting around collapse_ws in the formatter
so newline boundaries after SQL line comments are preserved in data-modifying
CTEs. Use comment-aware whitespace normalization or retain and indent the
original statement lines, ensuring inline comments cannot consume RETURNING or
subsequent syntax and the generated pg_dump output reparses.
- Around line 584-611: The collapse_ws scanner must preserve whitespace inside
dollar-quoted literals and backslash-escaped quotes within E'...' escape
strings. Update the literal-scanning logic around the existing quote handling to
recognize dollar-quote delimiters and skip escaped characters so their bodies
are copied verbatim, while retaining current handling for ordinary quoted
literals and adjacent literal whitespace.
In `@src/formatter/select.rs`:
- Around line 1929-1937: Update newlines_inside_literal to use a shared
PostgreSQL-aware literal scanner that recognizes standard, backslash-escape
E'...' strings and dollar-quoted strings before classifying newlines. Ensure
river_line relies on that result so indentation is never inserted into literal
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In `@tests/reparse_test.rs`:
- Around line 44-46: Add an output oracle to the reparse test around the
existing format call, using per-style expected output or targeted assertions
that require preservation of the fixture’s IS JSON modifiers and TABLESAMPLE
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Both text-scanning passes that rewrite whitespace recognized only a plain '...' literal, so three inputs were silently rewritten: - collapse_ws folded the newline that ends a `--` comment, letting the comment swallow the rest of the statement. A data-modifying CTE lost its RETURNING clause that way. - collapse_ws collapsed whitespace inside $tag$...$tag$ bodies, and read the \' in an E'...' string as the closing quote, so it collapsed whitespace past the literal's end. - newlines_inside_literal misclassified the same two forms, so river_line indented into the literal and changed its value. Add src/formatter/lexical.rs: one scanner for the literal and comment forms, used by both passes. Literals and comments are now copied verbatim, and the newline after a line comment is kept. Also adds an output oracle to the reparse test. Reparsing and idempotence both pass on stable, valid output that has lost a clause, so assert the IS JSON modifiers and TABLESAMPLE arguments in the fixture survive in every style. Raised in review of #56. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PostgreSQL allows `$` inside an unquoted identifier and requires a space between an identifier and a following dollar quote, so the `$` in `foo$tag$` opens no literal. The scanner started one there and ran to the next matching tag, marking the text between as literal content. Reproduced in pg_dump style: `SELECT a$b$c + 1 FROM t$b$u` kept its extra spaces instead of collapsing them. Reject a dollar quote, and an `E'...'` prefix, whose preceding character is an identifier character. Raised in review of #56. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#59) * Fail the build when formatting drops content Four rounds of fixes for dropped clauses (#46, #47, #50, #52, #56) each found their statements by hand, so the next one was found by hand too. This adds the check that finds them: every SQL example in the PostgreSQL documentation is formatted and the input tokens are compared against the output tokens. The corpus is 1397 statements extracted from the doc sources by scripts/extract_doc_corpus.py and committed, so the test needs no PostgreSQL checkout. canonicalize() holds the rewrites libpgfmt makes on purpose -- type aliases and `!=` -- so only real loss is reported. 82 statements still lose content. They are listed in known_token_loss.txt with what each one drops, and the test fails both when an unlisted statement starts losing content and when a listed one stops. The list can only shrink. Tracked by #58; this commit adds the guard, not the fixes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Drop doc elisions from the corpus 89 documentation blocks write "..." in the middle of otherwise runnable SQL. They are examples for a reader, not statements, and 8 of them were sitting in known_token_loss.txt as though libpgfmt had a bug to fix. 74 statements still lose content. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep the column list, hints and SEARCH/CYCLE on a CTE Both CTE paths rendered `name AS (body)` and read nothing else off the node, so four things that change what a CTE means were dropped: WITH RECURSIVE t(id, link, data) AS -> WITH RECURSIVE t AS WITH w AS NOT MATERIALIZED (...) -> WITH w AS (...) ) SEARCH DEPTH FIRST BY n SET ord -> ) ) CYCLE n SET is_cycle USING path -> ) A recursive CTE that declares columns needs them to compile at all, and the MATERIALIZED hint is the reason the query was written that way. format_cte_header() now returns the text before the body and the text after it, and both the river and left-aligned paths use it. render_clause_inline() also stopped casing identifiers as keywords. A column named `data` parses as `ColId > unreserved_keyword > kw_data`, so recursing into it turned `data` into `DATA` and `path` into `PATH`. 11 of the 63 statements in known_token_loss.txt are fixed by this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Stop reporting deliberate rewrites as content loss Six statements in known_token_loss.txt were test bugs, not formatter bugs: - The tokenizer splits every operator character, so `<>` in the output arrived as `<` `>` and never met the `<>` that `!=` canonicalizes to. - `timestamptz` -> `TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE` is a rewrite libpgfmt makes on purpose and was missing from canonicalize(). Also add TOKEN_LOSS_REPORT=1, which prints the input and output of every statement that still loses content, for whoever works the list next. 57 statements still lose content. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep subscripts and fields on INSERT and UPDATE targets A column an INSERT or UPDATE writes is `ColId` plus an optional `opt_indirection`, and only the `ColId` was rendered: UPDATE t SET a[4] = 15000 -> UPDATE t SET a = 15000 UPDATE t SET c.r = 1 -> UPDATE t SET c = 1 INSERT INTO t (a[1], c.d) ... -> INSERT INTO t (a, c) ... The first rewrites one array element into overwriting the whole column, which still parses and still runs. set_target and insert_column_item now go through format_column_target(), which covers UPDATE, INSERT and MERGE ... INSERT. The documentation corpus has no INSERT or MERGE example of this, so smoke_test covers them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep interval qualifiers, interval precision and array bounds Three type modifiers were dropped from every type position, column definitions and casts alike: interval hour to minute -> INTERVAL interval(3) -> INTERVAL int[3][3] -> INTEGER[] The first two change the type: HOUR TO MINUTE discards seconds and (3) rounds to milliseconds. format_simple_typename() handed only ConstInterval on, and the precision and qualifier are its siblings, not its children. Array bounds were replaced by a fixed "[]". PostgreSQL does not enforce them, so this one is not a change in meaning, but they are what the author wrote, and a formatter keeps that. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep WHERE CURRENT OF on UPDATE and DELETE DELETE FROM tasks WHERE CURRENT OF c_tasks -> DELETE FROM tasks; UPDATE films SET ... WHERE CURRENT OF c -> UPDATE films SET ...; A positioned WHERE clause holds a cursor name, not an expression, and both WHERE renderers only looked for an expression. The output parses and runs, and writes every row in the table instead of the one under the cursor. where_current_of() now renders it for the river and left-aligned paths; pg_dump style already passed it through verbatim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep a LIMIT written after the locking clause SELECT ... ORDER BY d FOR UPDATE LIMIT 10000 -> ... FOR UPDATE The grammar calls a LIMIT in that position opt_select_limit, which the clause collector did not match. The documentation uses this form to lock and delete in batches; without the LIMIT it locks and deletes everything. PostgreSQL accepts LIMIT before or after the locking clause with one meaning, so it is now rendered in the usual position. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Check every style for content loss, not only river The guard formatted the corpus in river style only, so a clause dropped by another style's renderer was invisible to it. pg_dump style has its own CTE, locking and VALUES paths, and a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE came out with no FOR UPDATE. Entries are now keyed `id:style`. 58 statements lose content in at least one style, against 39 in river alone; the difference is almost all pg_dump. The corpus also held 50 statements twice, because the documentation repeats some examples on more than one page. The extractor now keeps the first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep CTE column lists, hints and SEARCH/CYCLE in pg_dump and compact styles b2b6dd1 fixed the river and left-aligned CTE paths. Two more dropped the same things: - pg_dump style has its own CTE renderer, which wrote `name AS (` and nothing else. It now uses format_cte_header() and puts SEARCH and CYCLE on the closing line, where ruleutils puts them. - Compact CTEs (kickstarter) write each `)` as part of the next CTE's prefix, so the trailer of one CTE now travels to where its `)` is written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep VALUES, WINDOW and FOR UPDATE in pg_dump style pg_dump style rendered the clauses it collected into SelectClauses and never read three of them: VALUES (1, 'one'), (2, 'two') -> SELECT * ... IN (VALUES ('10.0.0.1')) -> ... IN ( SELECT *) ... WINDOW w AS (...) -> (dropped) ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED -> (dropped) A VALUES list has no targets, and the target renderer writes `*` when it finds none. tree-sitter accepts a bare `SELECT *`, so the re-parse guard from #54 passed it; PostgreSQL rejects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep aggregate ORDER BY, VARIADIC and ALL in function calls format_func_application() read the argument list, DISTINCT and OVER, and nothing else: string_agg(a, ',' ORDER BY a) -> STRING_AGG(a, ',') concat_ws(',', VARIADIC arr) -> CONCAT_WS(',') count(ALL x) -> COUNT(x) The ORDER BY decides the result of string_agg, array_agg and the other order-sensitive aggregates. The VARIADIC argument is a sibling of the argument list in the grammar, so the call lost an argument outright. ALL is the default and means nothing new, but it is what the author wrote. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep SELECT ... INTO SELECT * INTO films_recent FROM films -> SELECT * FROM films into_clause was not collected, so every style dropped it. The result is a different statement: SELECT INTO creates a table, and without it the query only returns rows. It is now part of SelectClauses and rendered before FROM in the river, left-aligned and pg_dump paths, with INTO joining the river width. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep view and materialized view options format_view_stmt() read OR REPLACE, TEMP, the name and the body: CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW v (a) ... -> CREATE VIEW v ... CREATE VIEW v WITH (security_barrier) -> CREATE VIEW v ... WITH CASCADED CHECK OPTION -> (dropped) security_barrier stops a leaky function from reading rows the view's WHERE hides, and CHECK OPTION makes writes through the view obey it, so both drops are security changes. A RECURSIVE view without its column list does not compile. Materialized views kept only the name and body, dropping IF NOT EXISTS, the column list, USING, WITH (...), TABLESPACE and UNLOGGED. WITH NO DATA was found by matching the upper-case source text, so `with no data` was dropped too. The header is now every child before AS, in order, and the suffix is read from opt_with_data. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep every branch of a set operation Three bugs in how UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT were collected and rendered, all present in v1.4.0 (#60): 1. `A UNION B UNION C` parses left-nested. The collector recorded `UNION B` while recursing into the left side, then overwrote it with `UNION C`, so every middle branch was dropped. The outer operation is now appended to the end of the chain. The branches are rendered flat in source order and PostgreSQL applies the same precedence when it parses them, so the meaning is unchanged. 2. A parenthesized branch, `(SELECT 1) UNION SELECT 2`, has no clauses of its own level, so it collected nothing and rendered as `SELECT *`. It is now kept and rendered with the subquery renderer. 3. In the river and left-aligned styles, a trailing ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET or FOR UPDATE was written after the first branch: `SELECT 1 ORDER BY 1 UNION SELECT 2`, which PostgreSQL rejects. With a set operation they apply to the whole of it -- a branch can only have its own inside parentheses -- so they now follow the last branch. pg_dump style already did this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep the clauses around a VALUES list VALUES (1) UNION ALL SELECT n + 1 FROM t -> VALUES (1) VALUES (1), (2) ORDER BY 1 LIMIT 1 -> VALUES (1), (2) WITH x AS (...) VALUES (1) -> VALUES (1) When a SELECT held a VALUES list, format_values_only() returned the list and nothing else. The first form is how the documentation writes a recursive CTE's anchor, so the recursion was dropped with it. VALUES is now rendered in place of the SELECT list, and the rest of the statement goes through the usual path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep the fields of a ROW constructor ROW(1, 2.5, 'this is a test') -> ROW ORDER BY ROW(c.name, c.price) -> ORDER BY ROW explicit_row had no formatter, and the generic walk rendered only its keyword. The output still parsed: `ROW` alone reads as a column name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep partition key expressions whole PARTITION BY RANGE (EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d)) -> ... (EXTRACT) PARTITION BY RANGE ((d + 1)) -> ... (d + 1) func_expr_windowless, the form a function call takes in a partition key, had no formatter, so only the function name survived. It is now handled like func_expr, which it is apart from not allowing OVER. A part_elem's parentheses are literal tokens, and formatting it as an expression dropped them. PostgreSQL requires them around any key that is not a column or a function call, so the second output is rejected. part_elem is now rendered as written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Treat CAST(x AS t) -> x::t as a deliberate rewrite in the guard libpgfmt writes every CAST as `::` on purpose, and the guard reported the two corpus statements that use CAST as losing `cast`, `(`, `as` and `)`. canonicalize() now rewrites `CAST ( x AS t )` to `x :: t` before comparing, recursing into x and t for nested casts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep WITH ORDINALITY and ROWS FROM on functions in FROM FROM unnest(a) WITH ORDINALITY AS t(x, n) -> FROM UNNEST(a) AS t(x, n) FROM ROWS FROM (f(1), g(2)) -> FROM ROWS FROM json_to_recordset(...) AS x(a int) -> (the call dropped) func_table went through format_expr, which kept the call and nothing around it, and for ROWS FROM kept only `ROWS`. It is now rendered as written, with the calls themselves still formatted as expressions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep ORDER BY ... USING and the INSERT target alias ORDER BY somecol USING ~<~ -> ORDER BY somecol INSERT INTO distributors AS d (...) -> INSERT INTO distributors (...) format_sortby() read ASC/DESC and NULLS and skipped the USING operator, so the sort fell back to the type's default order. The INSERT target renderer kept the table name and dropped the alias. ON CONFLICT ... WHERE d.zipcode then names a table that is not in the statement, and PostgreSQL rejects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Fail the build when formatted output does not parse The token guard cannot see a clause that survives as text but not as SQL. A new corpus test re-formats every formatted statement in every style, and it found three that no longer parsed: - normalize_whitespace() collapsed the newline after a `--` comment and the newline between two string constants. The first comments out the rest of the statement (`b OUT int, -- passed back c OUT int)`); the second makes `'a'\n'b'` a syntax error. pg_dump style already had a lexer-based collapse that keeps both; it moves to lexical::collapse_whitespace() and normalize_whitespace() now uses it, so there is one implementation instead of two. - The scanner now treats a quoted identifier as a span, so `"a b"` is no longer squeezed to `"a b"` by either collapse. - pg_dump style put `;` only after a SELECT, so any input with another statement type followed by a second statement ran the two together (#61). With more than one statement, every statement is now terminated, on its own line after a trailing `--` comment. A lone statement stays as the deparser writes it, which the pg_dump fixtures depend on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep JSON_TABLE arguments and column definitions FROM my_films, JSON_TABLE(js, '$.favorites[*]' COLUMNS (...)) AS jt -> FROM my_films, JSON_TABLE AS jt json_table went through format_expr, which kept only the keyword. It is now rendered as written, with types and expressions inside it still formatted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep PARTITION OF, INHERITS and IF NOT EXISTS on foreign tables CREATE FOREIGN TABLE m7 PARTITION OF m FOR VALUES FROM (...) TO (...) SERVER s7 -> CREATE FOREIGN TABLE m7 () SERVER s7 The foreign table formatter is an older copy of the CREATE TABLE one and read only the name, columns, SERVER and OPTIONS. A partition lost its parent and bound and became a plain foreign table, with an empty column list the input did not have. INHERITS and IF NOT EXISTS were dropped the same way. The header, the optional element list, and the bound and INHERITS lines now follow CREATE TABLE. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Split dollar-quote delimiters out of tokens in the guard A dollar-quoted body ends where its delimiter text next appears, not at a token boundary, so `END$$` in the input and `END` then `$$` in the output are the same statement. The guard read `end$$` as one word and reported it as lost. The tokenizer now splits `$tag$` out of every token, so both sides tokenize the same way. It applies to quote-started tokens as well: a `'` inside a dollar-quoted body is not a quote, and the tokenizer does not track dollar quoting, so it could run a "literal" across the closing delimiter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Name the issue tracking each remaining known loss The seven statements left in known_token_loss.txt belong to three open issues: comments inside a statement (#62), rewriting the inside of a string or function body (#57), and a `?` placeholder that parses as a tolerated one-byte ERROR node (#58). Each entry now says which. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Rewrap the known_token_loss.txt header Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep the column names of a plain CREATE VIEW A plain view nests its column list under opt_column_list, so the lookup for a direct columnList child found nothing and CREATE VIEW v (a, b) AS ... lost (a, b) in every style. The corpus has no plain view with a column list, so the guard did not see it. - Look for columnList under opt_column_list too. - Add the case to view_options_preserved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep the newline after a comment before a pg_dump subquery In pg_dump layout, collapse_preserve_edges added one space after a fragment that ended in whitespace. When the fragment ended in a `--` comment, as in `x IN -- note\n (SELECT 1)`, the spliced subquery went onto the comment line and the output no longer parsed. - Add a newline instead of a space when the fragment ends inside a line comment. - Add pgdump_line_comment_before_subquery. The other styles have the same problem on this input; that is not part of this change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Check the exact tokens a known token loss drops The guard matched a known entry by `id:style` only. A listed statement that started to drop more, or other, tokens still passed, so a new loss in it was hidden by its entry. - Compare the dropped tokens with the `drops:` note, and fail with the listed and the current value when they differ. - Write each note as the Debug form of the dropped tokens, the same form the failure prints. The old notes were joined, truncated, or stale (ebc920835ba820c5 no longer drops `$$;`), so none matched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Keep an empty column list before INHERITS or SERVER CREATE TABLE c () INHERITS (p) formatted to CREATE TABLE c INHERITS (p), which PostgreSQL rejects. CREATE FOREIGN TABLE f () SERVER s had the same problem. The grammar puts the parentheses of an empty list directly under the statement, with no element list node, so the formatter took the list to be absent. - Write `()` when the statement has the parentheses but no elements. - Add empty_column_list_preserved. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Check only the extracted statement for a doc elision The extractor skipped a whole <programlisting> when "..." appeared anywhere in it, including in the psql output after the statement. Complete statements such as SET enable_partition_pruning = off; were lost from the corpus for that reason. - Check the elision after first_statement(), on the statement only. - Regenerate the corpus from PostgreSQL master docs. This adds 16 statements, among them CREATE TABLE ... () INHERITS (...), which found the empty column list loss fixed in the previous commit. It also removes the two contrib-spi CREATE TRIGGER examples, because upstream removed the refint extension and its docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Regenerate the doc corpus from REL_19_STABLE, not master 1a03d12 regenerated the corpus from PostgreSQL master. libpgfmt targets PostgreSQL 19, and the corpus was first extracted from REL_19_STABLE (b368bdd), which is why no master commit matched it exactly. Master can hold syntax 19 does not have and has deleted 19's examples. Regenerated from REL_19_STABLE with the fixed extractor. The only difference from the master extraction is the two contrib-spi CREATE TRIGGER examples, which exist in 19 and are restored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz * Reject input with any ERROR node instead of tolerating short ones SELECT * FROM tab WHERE lower(col) = LOWER(?) -> ... = LOWER() ERROR nodes shorter than five bytes nested inside a statement were tolerated, on the grounds that their text is still rendered with the statement. It is not: every formatter renders the node kinds it knows, and an ERROR node is not one of them, so the text was silently dropped. Any ERROR or MISSING node now rejects the input with FormatError::Syntax. Across the 1,286 statements of the PostgreSQL documentation corpus this newly rejects two, and neither is PostgreSQL: a JDBC `?` placeholder and an extension script's `@extschema@`. The doc comment justifying the tolerance named three grammar gaps (`IS NOT NULL AND`, parenthesized boolean expressions, dollar-quoted bodies). None of them produces an ERROR node with the current grammar. The root-level check added for #45 is subsumed and removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UFqHcQxRwX8CuJaECqiHUz --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Stop layout from changing the inside of string constants
SELECT js FROM (VALUES ('[{"a":"1"},
{"b":"2"}]')) foo(js)
In river style the second line of that literal gained a space on every
pass; mozilla added four. Layout code indents formatted text line by line
at thirteen sites, and a line that continues a multi-line literal was
indented with the rest, changing the literal's value.
lexical::restore_literals() now runs once over each formatted statement
and puts back the original spelling of any single-quoted constant or
quoted identifier that differs from a source one only in whitespace.
Matching is by content, so it holds when the formatter reorders clauses,
and a literal changed beyond whitespace is left alone. Dollar-quoted
bodies are excluded; their re-indentation is deliberate and is handled
where the body is rendered.
The idempotency test's exclusion for this statement, in place since #56,
is removed.
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* Re-lay out a function body only when that cannot change it
reindent_body() stripped the common indentation of every dollar-quoted
function body and added one space, whatever the language:
- PL/Python and PL/Perl code was edited by a formatter that does not
parse it; in Python, indentation is syntax.
- A multi-line string constant inside a PL/pgSQL body was shifted with
the lines around it, so a function that builds SQL text built
different text.
- An unterminated string made the edges of a one-line body part of it.
A body is now re-laid out only when its language is SQL or PL/pgSQL, where
whitespace outside strings means nothing, and lexical::layout_is_safe()
finds no string or quoted identifier spanning a line. Anything else is
emitted exactly as written. Ordinary PL/pgSQL keeps the existing layout,
so the pgfmt fixtures are unchanged.
The guard's tokenizer now tokenizes a dollar-quoted body between its
delimiters, so quotes inside a body stay inside it. That replaces the
split_dollar_delimiters() workaround, which handled one symptom of the
same problem.
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* Keep comments inside a statement
The formatters render the node kinds they know and never see comments,
so every comment inside a statement was dropped. Worse, a comment inside
a comma-separated list came back from flatten_list as a list element:
SELECT a, -- first
b, c
-> river: SELECT a,\n ,\n b, ... (stray comma)
-> pg_dump: SELECT a,\n -- first,\n b, ... (comma commented out)
Both outputs are invalid SQL.
flatten_list() now skips comments. CREATE TABLE, which attaches them to
the column they follow, uses flatten_list_keeping_comments() and is
unchanged.
After a statement is formatted, Formatter::restore_comments() puts each
lost comment back at the end of the output line holding the token it
followed in the source, found by counting that token's occurrences; words
compare case-insensitively. When the formatter rewrote that token, there
is nowhere to put the comment, and the statement is emitted as written
with only its whitespace collapsed: losing the formatting is better than
losing the comment. A comment a passthrough path already kept is left
alone.
create_table_comment_boundaries.expected recorded the loss of a comment
between `)` and WITH; it now expects `) -- storage options below`.
Closes #62. The documentation corpus now formats with no content loss in
any style, so known_token_loss.txt is empty.
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* Stop a comment inside an expression from swallowing its line
SELECT a FROM t WHERE x IN -- note
(SELECT 1)
-> ... WHERE x IN -- note (SELECT 1)
The comment is a child of the a_expr, and format_expr rendered it through
its text fallback, joined to the next part with a space, so the subquery
became part of the comment. pg_dump style was fixed for this in #59; the
other seven styles were not.
format_expr now renders a comment as nothing, the join drops the empty
part, and restore_comments puts the comment at the end of the line.
That can place a comment after the statement's `;`, which on the next
pass parses as a comment between statements and moved to a paragraph of
its own. A comment on the same source line as the end of a statement now
stays on that line, so `SELECT 1; -- why` keeps its layout and the output
is stable.
Closes #63.
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* Format comment-only input again instead of rejecting it
The parse guard rejected every input with no toplevel_stmt, so
"-- note", "/* note */" and a bare ";" failed with "Unknown syntax
error". On main they format to their comments, or to nothing.
- has_structural_error now checks only for ERROR and MISSING nodes.
format_root already handles a root with no statements.
- Add a smoke test for comment-only input in all styles.
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* Make literal restore linear and count only whole comments
restore_literals read the source from its start once per literal, and
matched each output literal with a linear search and Vec::remove. A
20,000-row INSERT took 0.87s in river style against 0.18s on main; it
now takes 0.23s.
- Collect the source characters once. Queue original indices by exact
text and by whitespace-free key, and mark claimed ones. The
exact-match-first order does not change.
- restore_comments counted a comment as present when its text occurred
anywhere in the output, so "-- x" inside "-- x y" or inside the
constant '-- x' stopped the real comment from being restored. Count
only comment spans that scan finds and whose text is equal.
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* Stop restore_literals from swapping two literals' values
Layout indents the continuation lines of a multi-line literal. It can
indent one until it is equal to a different literal as written, for
example 'p\nq' inside a subquery becoming 'p\n q'. The exact-text
pass then gave the indented literal that other spelling, and the other
literal got 'p\nq': the two values swapped. A search found this in all
seven styles, in SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and CASE, with no reordering.
- Group originals and output literals by whitespace-free key. The n-th
output literal in a group takes the n-th original in it, because the
formatter keeps literals in source order.
- Layout only adds whitespace, so a group whose output texts equal its
originals as a multiset is unchanged, only perhaps reordered. Leave
it as it is. This keeps the case the exact-text pass was for.
- A clause reorder together with layout in the same group can still
pair literals wrongly (HEAD does too). The doc comment says so;
fixing it needs source positions from every renderer.
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* Pair literals in a group only when the counts are equal
When the formatter drops or rewrites a literal, its key group has fewer
output literals than originals. Pairing by position then shifted the
rest: restore_literals("f('a b', 'ab')", "f(x, 'ab')") gave 'a b'.
- Leave a group as it is when the two counts differ.
- Add that case to the unit test.
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* Restore river table elements' literals before the reorder
River-style CREATE TABLE renders primary keys, then columns, then table
constraints, so elements can leave source order. restore_literals() pairs
literals that differ only in whitespace by order within a group, so once
layout had re-indented one of two such literals, the reorder swapped them:
CREATE TABLE t (CONSTRAINT c CHECK (b <> 'p\n q'), b text DEFAULT 'p\nq')
gave the DEFAULT the CHECK's value and the reverse. Each river element now
keeps its source text and restores its own literals before it joins the
output, and restore_literals() documents that a reordering renderer must
do this.
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Fixes #54.
Problem
33 statements from the PostgreSQL documentation formatted into output that
libpgfmt itself cannot re-parse. Each was a dropped or mangled clause, and
format()returnedOkevery time — the caller got SQL the server wouldreject, with nothing to signal it.
Families fixed
All the same shape as #46 and #51: a formatter enumerates the node kinds it
knows and discards the rest.
AS t(col type, ...)→AS;AS s(i)→AS s iOVER (ORDER BY x RANGE BETWEEN 5 PRECEDING AND 10 FOLLOWING)→OVER (ORDER BY x RANGE)CROSS JOIN b→JOIN b(needsON/USING)UPDATESET (a, b) = (1, 2)→SET = 1, 2ON CONFLICT DO SELECTDO UPDATE SETwith an emptySETIS JSONmodifiersIS JSON ARRAY WITH UNIQUE KEYS→IS JSON WITHTABLESAMPLEargsTABLESAMPLE SYSTEM_ROWS(100)→TABLESAMPLEEXTRACTsourceEXTRACT(EPOCH FROM x)→EXTRACT ( EPOCH )WITH t AS (); string continuation collapsed onto one lineRoot causes worth calling out:
func_alias_clausewas never routed to the alias formatter, and neithername_listnorTableFuncElementListwas handled anywhere.CROSSandNATURALhang offjoined_table, notjoin_type, so the lookupmissed them entirely.
SET (a, b) = ...carries aset_target_list; the code looked only forset_target.collapsing that newline changes their meaning. The pg_dump collapse is now
quote-aware — a
' 'literal is left alone.Also fixes
river_linere-indenting continuation lines that fall inside astring literal, which rewrote the literal's value on every pass.
Verification
Against the 1,781 statements extracted from
doc/src/sgml:The 33 statements are committed as
tests/fixtures/reparse/doc_regressions.sqlwith a test that formats each in every style and re-formats the result, so this
class cannot regress silently.
Known remainder
One statement is excluded from the accompanying idempotence check: a
VALUESrow holding a string literal with an embedded newline still gains a space of
indentation per pass. That is layout drift rather than unparseable output, and
is tracked separately.
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Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
TABLESAMPLE, and additional PostgreSQL syntax.NATURAL JOINandCROSS JOINvariants,ON CONFLICT DO SELECT, locking clauses, multi-columnSETtargets, and relation aliases.Bug Fixes
Tests