There were few problems with null handling:
* query_raw_txt() accepted vector of string so it always (erroneously)
treated "null" as a string instead of null. Change rust pg client
to accept the vector of Option<String> instead of just Strings. Adopt
coding here to pass nulls as None.
* pg_text_to_json() had a check that always interpreted "NULL" string
as null. That is wrong and nulls were already handled by match None.
This bug appeared as a bad attempt to parse arrays containing NULL
elements. Fix coding by checking presence of quotes while parsing an
array (no quotes -> null, quoted -> "null" string).
Array parser fix also slightly changes behavior by always cleaning
current entry when pushing to the resulting vector. This seems to be
an omission by previous coding, however looks like it was harmless
as entry was not cleared only at the end of the nested or to-level
array.
With this commit client can pass following optional headers:
`Neon-Raw-Text-Output: true`. Return postgres values as text, without parsing them. So numbers, objects, booleans, nulls and arrays will be returned as text. That can be useful in cases when client code wants to implement it's own parsing or reuse parsing libraries from e.g. node-postgres.
`Neon-Array-Mode: true`. Return postgres rows as arrays instead of objects. That is more compact representation and also helps in some edge
cases where it is hard to use rows represented as objects (e.g. when several fields have the same name).
This commit introduces an SQL-over-HTTP endpoint in the proxy, with a JSON
response structure resembling that of the node-postgres driver. This method,
using HTTP POST, achieves smaller amortized latencies in edge setups due to
fewer round trips and an enhanced open connection reuse by the v8 engine.
This update involves several intricacies:
1. SQL injection protection: We employed the extended query protocol, modifying
the rust-postgres driver to send queries in one roundtrip using a text
protocol rather than binary, bypassing potential issues like those identified
in https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres/issues/1030.
2. Postgres type compatibility: As not all postgres types have binary
representations (e.g., acl's in pg_class), we adjusted rust-postgres to
respond with text protocol, simplifying serialization and fixing queries with
text-only types in response.
3. Data type conversion: Considering JSON supports fewer data types than
Postgres, we perform conversions where possible, passing all other types as
strings. Key conversions include:
- postgres int2, int4, float4, float8 -> json number (NaN and Inf remain
text)
- postgres bool, null, text -> json bool, null, string
- postgres array -> json array
- postgres json and jsonb -> json object
4. Alignment with node-postgres: To facilitate integration with js libraries,
we've matched the response structure of node-postgres, returning command tags
and column oids. Command tag capturing was added to the rust-postgres
functionality as part of this change.
