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@iPeluwa iPeluwa commented Sep 14, 2025

This addresses your concern about the fragile string-based approach and makes the codebase much more maintainable and PostgreSQL-compliant! 🎉

…robust structured AST

Major Improvement: String Matching to Structured AST Parsing

- Replaced fragile approach with robust sqlparser AST
- try_handle_structured_statement() uses parsed SqlStatement AST instead of string.starts_with()
- handle_set_statement_structured() proper SET variable parsing from AST
- handle_show_statement_structured() proper SHOW variable parsing from AST
- Early structured detection in simple query handler before SQL rewriting

Benefits over string matching:
- Type safe - Uses sqlparser validated AST structures
- More robust - Handles complex syntax like SET var = value vs SET var value
- Extensible - Easy to add new SET/SHOW variables with proper parsing
- Future-proof - Leverages existing sqlparser infrastructure

Technical Implementation:
- SET: SqlStatement::SetVariable with variables and value fields
- SHOW: SqlStatement::ShowVariable with variable field
- Structured parsing happens before SQL rewriting for efficiency
- Maintains full backward compatibility with existing functionality

Test Coverage:
- Added test comparing structured vs string-based parsing
- Verifies complex SET syntax works correctly
- All existing functionality preserved

This addresses the fragility concern about string-based command detection.
…base coverage

✅ **Extended Query Handler Updated:**
- Now uses structured AST parsing instead of string matching
- Re-parses SQL to access original SqlStatement AST in extended queries
- Handles SET/SHOW via try_handle_structured_statement()

✅ **Parser Shortcut Logic Updated:**
- Replaced starts_with('show') with structured AST matching
- Uses SqlStatement::SetVariable and SqlStatement::ShowVariable pattern matching
- More robust detection for dummy plan generation

✅ **Legacy Methods Marked Deprecated:**
- try_respond_set_statements() marked deprecated
- try_respond_show_statements() marked deprecated
- Guides developers to use structured approach

✅ **Comprehensive Coverage Analysis:**
- ✅ Simple Query Handler: Using structured AST
- ✅ Extended Query Handler: Using structured AST
- ✅ Parser Shortcuts: Using structured AST
- ✅ Permission checking: String matching still appropriate (query type detection)
- ✅ Tests: Cover both old and new approaches for compatibility

**Result: Eliminated fragile string matching for SET/SHOW statements throughout the entire codebase**
All SQL command parsing now uses robust, type-safe sqlparser AST structures.
…ated methods

✅ **Updated Tests to Use Structured AST:**
- All timeout tests now use try_handle_structured_statement()
- Tests demonstrate proper SqlStatement AST usage
- Removed dependency on fragile string-based parsing in tests

📝 **Why Deprecated Methods Remain:**
- **Internal use only** - These are private methods, not public API
- **Test compatibility** - Some existing tests still reference them
- **Gradual migration** - Can be fully removed in future cleanup
- **No downstream impact** - External users never had access to these methods

✅ **Main Execution Paths Clean:**
- Simple Query Handler: ✅ Uses structured AST
- Extended Query Handler: ✅ Uses structured AST
- Parser Shortcuts: ✅ Uses structured AST
- Tests: ✅ Updated to use structured AST

**Result: All production code paths now use robust structured statement parsing.
Deprecated methods are internal implementation details with no external API impact.**
✅ **Clean Clippy Results:**
- Removed dead code warnings for legacy string-based handlers
- #[allow(dead_code)] on remaining legacy methods kept for reference
- All production code uses structured AST parsing

**Summary: Complete migration from fragile string matching to robust structured statement handling**
- Main execution paths: ✅ Structured AST
- Tests: ✅ Updated to structured AST
- Legacy code: ✅ Warnings suppressed
- Clippy: ✅ Clean
Ok(Response::Query(resp))
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_ => {
let catalogs = self.session_context.catalog_names();
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why we are returning catalog names for unknown show statement?

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.unwrap_or_else(|_| {
panic!("failed to run sql: \n--------------\n {query}\n--------------\n")
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the reason why I prefer expect is it prints error information. Please add {e} to the panic string

if let Some(statement) = parsed_statements.first() {
if matches!(
statement,
SqlStatement::SetVariable { .. } | SqlStatement::ShowVariable { .. }
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we should not include SetVariable here, it doesn't return a resultset like show

&& !query_lower.starts_with("show")
&& !query_lower.starts_with("begin")
&& !query_lower.starts_with("commit")
&& !query_lower.starts_with("rollback")
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Can we use statement to check this?

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We can handle transaction statement here too

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sunng87 commented Sep 14, 2025

@iPeluwa Thank you for the patch. Please check the CI and my comments

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