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What this is

SchemaDiffTestCase wrapped applying its generated script, and the comparison that follows, in a bare except Exception that discarded both, so it reported a pass whatever the script did. That is why --pkg tools.schema_diff has been printing

syntax error at or near ")"
LINE 995: );

on every run whilst cheerfully reporting 2 tests passed. This makes the test assert what it was written to assert, and fixes the bugs that turning it on exposed. Each of those is filed separately, and the commit message maps them one to one.

Fixes #10293, fixes #10297, fixes #10298, fixes #10300, fixes #10303, fixes #10304.

The test

It now fails when an object's SQL does not apply, and when applying the whole script leaves the two databases different. Two differences it cannot settle yet are listed in KNOWN_DIFFERENCES with their issue numbers, and the test also fails if one of them starts passing, so the list cannot quietly rot.

Objects go in one at a time and are retried, rather than as a single script, because the script is no longer ordered by dependency (#10295), so an object can fail purely because something it needs comes later on. Retrying tells that apart from SQL that is simply wrong. When #10295 is fixed this can go back to applying the script in one go.

restore_schema() now returns the error alongside its status, so a failure says which statement did not apply, and the script is left on disk when the test fails since it is the only evidence of what went wrong.

The fixes

Still open

table table_for_partition_1 (#10301, the rebuild keeps its scaffolding default partition) and procedure proc1 (#10302, CREATE OR REPLACE wraps the body in newlines) are the two known differences. #10292 and #10295 are untouched and described on their own issues; #10295 in particular means users' generated scripts can fail to run, and wants JS work.

Testing

tools.schema_diff (3), resql, foreign_tables (44), sequences (11), types (39), functions (74), casts (38) and tables (469) all pass against PostgreSQL 18, and pycodestyle --config=.pycodestyle is clean. I confirmed the new assertions bite by watching them fail on each bug in turn before fixing it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved schema comparison accuracy by excluding internally managed database objects.
    • Fixed foreign-table column updates to prevent duplicates and correctly remove deleted columns.
    • Sequence updates now automatically restart at a valid value when new bounds exclude the current value.
    • Failed database or schema comparisons are no longer reported as successful.
    • Improved range-type comparison consistency by normalizing missing values.
  • Tests

    • Enhanced schema-diff validation, SQL application retries, failure reporting, and diagnostics.

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The changes improve schema-diff filtering and normalization, make sequence bound updates generate valid restart clauses, prevent false success events, and strengthen schema restoration and comparison validation.

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Schema diff updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Internal dependency filtering
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/casts/templates/..., web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/functions/templates/..., web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/templates/...
Schema-diff queries now exclude objects with extension or internal dependencies.
Object comparison normalization
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/foreign_tables/__init__.py, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/__init__.py
Foreign-table columns are matched and normalized by name. Range-type comparison fields convert catalogue placeholders to None and receive consistent defaults.
Sequence bound update SQL
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/sequences/__init__.py, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/sequences/templates/...
Sequence updates add RESTART at the nearest new bound when the current value falls outside the updated range.
Schema-diff failure and validation handling
web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/__init__.py, web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/test_schema_diff_comp.py, web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/utils.py
Failure handlers stop after emitting failure events. Test utilities return restoration errors, apply DDL chunks with retries, and validate expected differences in a follow-up comparison.

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The change improves schema-diff validation and sequence handling, but some form-encoded sequence updates can still fail when a restart is required, and repeated failed comparisons may retain database cursors; these are bounded follow-up risks, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness.

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Approving. Ran the full test suite locally on PG16 (schema diff, foreign tables, sequences, types, functions, casts, resql) — all pass. Also tested by hand in the Schema Diff UI and it worked as expected. LGTM.

Kindly handle failing checks.

…d fix what that found

The Schema Diff comparison test wrapped applying its generated script, and
the comparison that follows it, in a bare `except Exception` that discarded
both. It reported a pass whatever the script did, which is why it printed
`syntax error at or near ")"` on every run whilst claiming two tests passed.
It now fails when an object's SQL does not apply, and when applying the lot
leaves the two databases different, with a short list of the differences
that are known not to settle yet so that the list cannot quietly rot.

Objects are applied one at a time and retried rather than as a single
script, because the script is no longer ordered by dependency (pgadmin-org#10295), so
an object can fail purely because something it needs comes later on;
retrying tells that apart from SQL that is simply wrong.

Turning the assertions on found the following, each of which is fixed here:

* A range type being dropped and recreated because its kind changed lost
  its subtype, because directory_diff() drops a plain value that only one
  side of the comparison has, and rendered `CREATE TYPE ... AS RANGE ()`.
  Once that was fixed it wrote the catalogue's `-` placeholder out as
  `CANONICAL = -`, which the reverse-engineered SQL path already avoids.
  Both are now handled where the comparison data is built (pgadmin-org#10304).

* The constructor functions, casts and multirange types that PostgreSQL
  creates for a range type were compared as though a user had written them,
  so the script tried to recreate objects that come into being with their
  parent type: 47 of 151 objects in the test's fixtures were these.
  Internal dependencies are now excluded alongside extension ones, matching
  what pg_dump does.

* Recreating a foreign table declared any column that also differed twice,
  because a changed column was appended to the table's existing columns
  rather than replacing the entry already there (pgadmin-org#10297).

* Raising a sequence's MINVALUE above the value it currently sits at, or
  lowering MAXVALUE below it, generated a statement PostgreSQL rejects
  outright, taking every other change to that sequence with it. Such a
  change is now accompanied by the RESTART it requires (pgadmin-org#10298).

* A foreign table column added by Schema Diff lost its collation, because
  get_columns.sql calls it collname whilst the column templates render
  collspcname (pgadmin-org#10300).

* A comparison that threw part way through emitted its failure and then
  reported success as well, handing the client a fraction of the databases
  as though it were a complete result (pgadmin-org#10303).

Two differences remain listed as known: a rebuilt partitioned table keeps
the default partition used as scaffolding for the data copy (pgadmin-org#10301), and
CREATE OR REPLACE wraps a function body in newlines, leaving a
whitespace-only difference (pgadmin-org#10302).

Fixes pgadmin-org#10293
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Rebased onto current upstream/master to pick up the Yarn/Corepack CI setup fix (#10306); the earlier CI failures here were that stale-base infra issue, not this change.

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web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/__init__.py (1)

227-237: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an immutable range-key constant.

range_keys_to_normalise is a class-level list, but the code only reads it during iteration. Replace it with a tuple to prevent shared-state mutation.

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In
`@web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/__init__.py`
around lines 227 - 237, Change the class-level range_keys_to_normalise
collection from a list to an immutable tuple, preserving the existing keys and
iteration behavior.

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In
`@web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/sequences/__init__.py`:
- Around line 670-673: Convert the immutable request.form value to a mutable
dict before passing it to get_SQL, ensuring _add_restart_for_new_bounds can
assign data['restart'] when minimum or maximum exceeds current_value.

In `@web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/utils.py`:
- Around line 109-115: Update the chunk execution flow to close pg_cursor in a
finally block, ensuring cleanup occurs whether pg_cursor.execute(sql) succeeds
or raises. Preserve the existing applied and failed recording behavior.

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In
`@web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/__init__.py`:
- Around line 227-237: Change the class-level range_keys_to_normalise collection
from a list to an immutable tuple, preserving the existing keys and iteration
behavior.
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  • web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/foreign_tables/__init__.py
  • web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/functions/templates/functions/pg/sql/default/node.sql
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  • web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/types/__init__.py
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Comment on lines +670 to +673
if minimum is not None and int(minimum) > int(current):
data['restart'] = int(minimum)
elif maximum is not None and int(maximum) < int(current):
data['restart'] = int(maximum)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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In Flask, the request.form attribute is of type werkzeug.datastructures.ImmutableMultiDict [1][2][3]. This object is a specialized dictionary subclass provided by Werkzeug, the underlying WSGI utility library used by Flask [4][5]. Key characteristics of ImmutableMultiDict: 1. Immutable Mapping: As the name implies, an ImmutableMultiDict is an immutable mapping [6]. It behaves like a standard Python dictionary for read operations (e.g., accessing values via keys), but it does not allow modifications such as adding, deleting, or updating keys and values [4]. 2. MultiDict Functionality: It is a MultiDict subclass designed to handle cases where multiple values are associated with a single key, which is common in HTML form submissions (e.g., checkboxes or multi-select inputs) [4][5]. 3. Default Behavior: By default, Flask uses ImmutableMultiDict to store form data parsed from the request [2][3]. Because request.form is immutable, any attempt to modify it directly will raise an exception. 4. Customization: While not generally recommended, it is possible to change the storage class for form data by subclassing the Flask Request object and setting the parameter_storage_class attribute to a different, potentially mutable structure [2][3][7]. Official documentation for these structures is maintained under the Werkzeug library's API reference for data structures [4].

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Keep data mutable before adding restart.

A form-encoded update passes immutable request.form to get_SQL. When a new bound exceeds current_value, _add_restart_for_new_bounds assigns restart and raises TypeError. Convert request.form to a dict before calling get_SQL.

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In
`@web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/schemas/sequences/__init__.py`
around lines 670 - 673, Convert the immutable request.form value to a mutable
dict before passing it to get_SQL, ensuring _add_restart_for_new_bounds can
assign data['restart'] when minimum or maximum exceeds current_value.

Comment on lines +109 to +115
try:
pg_cursor = connection.cursor()
pg_cursor.execute(sql)
pg_cursor.close()
applied.append(label)
except Exception as e:
failed.append((label, sql, str(e)))

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Close cursors after failed chunk execution.

When pg_cursor.execute(sql) raises, the except branch records the failure but does not close the cursor. Retries can accumulate open cursors on the connection. Close pg_cursor in a finally block.

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In `@web/pgadmin/tools/schema_diff/tests/utils.py` around lines 109 - 115, Update
the chunk execution flow to close pg_cursor in a finally block, ensuring cleanup
occurs whether pg_cursor.execute(sql) succeeds or raises. Preserve the existing
applied and failed recording behavior.

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