fix(wren): connect with autocommit so a failed statement cannot poison the connection

[lucifer726]

What changes

PostgresConnector now connects with autocommit=True (via kwargs.setdefault, so an
explicit caller-supplied value still wins). Without it, psycopg opens an implicit
transaction per statement and a failed statement leaves the session
idle in transaction (aborted) — every later statement on that connection fails until
the process restarts.

Closes #2669.

Why this shape

psycopg is the only connector in this repo that never set autocommit — canner.py:240,
redshift.py:44 and mysql.py:518 all do. Measured against a real Postgres 16 in a
clean container:

autocommit=False   after success=INTRANS   after failure=INERROR   next stmt=InFailedSqlTransaction
autocommit=True    after success=IDLE      after failure=IDLE      next stmt=succeeds

Two things follow:

1. The poisoned connection is not something to clean up after the fact — it is something
   not to create.
2. With autocommit off, even a successful statement leaves the session
   idle in transaction. This connector is long-lived and process-shared
   (WrenEngine._get_connector caches it; the MCP server's ServeContext hands one
   engine to every tool handler), so it held one snapshot open for its entire life. A
   rollback-on-failure fix does not touch that.

An earlier revision of this PR took the rollback-on-failure route. @AmirF194's review
showed it was patching the symptom and missing the success path, so this revision drops
_rollback_after_failure and its six except-branch call sites in favour of the one
setdefault.

Verification

• Reproduced the original failure on a real Postgres 16 (testcontainers) against the
  unfixed connector: 2 failed, [GENERIC_USER_ERROR] current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block. With the fix: 2 passed.
• The integration tests are unchanged from the previous revision and still pass — they
  assert the behaviour (a valid query after a failed one succeeds), not the mechanism.
• New unit tests (tests/unit/, runs in the default unit job): autocommit defaults on; an
  explicit autocommit=False in connection_info.kwargs still wins; other kwargs
  survive. Confirmed 2 of the 3 fail without the source change.
• tests/unit/ 1153 passed; tests/connectors/test_postgres.py -m postgres 37 passed;
  ruff format --check src/ and ruff check src/ clean.

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Walkthrough

PostgresConnector now enables autocommit by default. Query and dry-run failure handlers no longer perform rollback cleanup. Unit and end-to-end tests verify connection arguments and successful reuse after failed statements.

Changes

PostgreSQL transaction recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Autocommit connector behavior core/wren/src/wren/connector/postgres.py	Connections default to autocommit=True. Explicit overrides remain effective. Query and dry-run handlers retain their exception behavior without calling the removed rollback helper.
Transaction recovery validation core/wren/tests/unit/test_postgres_autocommit.py, core/wren/tests/connectors/test_postgres.py	Unit tests verify autocommit keyword handling and preservation of other connection arguments. PostgreSQL tests verify that queries succeed after failed queries and dry runs.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e8440

The connector now resets failed PostgreSQL sessions before re-raising errors, preventing subsequent queries from remaining blocked; the documented unit and integration checks pass, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: bartok9, goldmedal

Poem

A rabbit checks the connection bright,
Autocommit keeps each query light.
When one statement goes astray,
The next can run without delay.
“Hop onward!” says the bun.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The autocommit implementation prevents failed queries and dry runs from poisoning the shared connection, and recovery tests cover the behavior required by #2669.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The source and test changes are limited to PostgreSQL transaction recovery and directly support the behavior required by #2669.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring check was indeterminate for this PR — some files could not be analyzed in time. Not blocking.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enabling autocommit to prevent failed statements from poisoning PostgreSQL connections.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the failure, includes actual error output, describes the fix, and lists tests; the duplicate check section is not explicit but the content is otherwise complete.

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core/wren/tests/unit/test_postgres_rollback.py (1)

74-81: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add cancellation coverage for dry_run().

Add a test that raises psycopg.errors.QueryCanceled from dry_run() and asserts one rollback plus preservation of the cancellation exception. This covers the separate dry_run() cancellation handler.

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In `@core/wren/tests/unit/test_postgres_rollback.py` around lines 74 - 81, Add a
unit test alongside test_query_canceled_rolls_back that configures dry_run() to
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In `@core/wren/tests/unit/test_postgres_rollback.py`:
- Around line 74-81: Add a unit test alongside test_query_canceled_rolls_back
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Isolate the psycopg stub

_ensure_psycopg_stub() replaces sys.modules at import time and leaves the fake module active. If this test is collected before tests/connectors/test_postgres.py, the integration tests can bind the fake module and fail at psycopg.connect(...). Scope the stub and isolate or reload wren.connector.postgres after cleanup.

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modules are scoped only to this test module; restore the original sys.modules
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[lucifer726]

Checked this against the repo's actual test layout — I don't think the stub can
leak in either configuration, so I've left it as is:

• With the postgres extra installed (the only configuration where
  tests/connectors/test_postgres.py can run at all): pytest imports that module
  during collection, and its top-level import psycopg puts the real module in
  sys.modules before any test executes. _ensure_psycopg_stub() then hits its
  if "psycopg" in sys.modules: return guard and never installs the fake.
  Verified by running both in one process:

  pytest tests/unit/test_postgres_rollback.py \
         tests/connectors/test_postgres.py::TestPostgresConnectorTransactionRecovery -m ""
  → 8 passed
  

• Without the extra (the test-unit job): tests/connectors/test_postgres.py
  cannot be imported at all — both psycopg and testcontainers.postgres are
  missing — so there is nothing for the stub to shadow. The two CI jobs are
  separate runners anyway (wren-ci.yml: test-unit vs test-connector).

The stub follows the existing pattern in
tests/unit/test_postgres_semicolon_unlimited.py, whose module docstring records
the same rationale. Happy to scope it with a fixture if a maintainer prefers that
regardless.

[AmirF194]

I read this against 33cfc93c and traced where _get_connector() is used outside this file.

ServeContext in mcp_server.py holds one engine (and so one PostgresConnector, one
psycopg connection) for the whole process, and build_server() can run the MCP server on
transport="streamable-http". The tool functions registered there (query, dry_run, etc.)
are plain def, not async def, which the MCP SDK runs off the event loop in a worker
thread, so two concurrent HTTP tool calls can be executing on separate threads at the same
time, both going through the same connector.

If that happens, _rollback_after_failure() calls self.connection.rollback() on the shared
connection while a second thread's cursor.execute() on that same connection may still be
in flight, which is unsafe with psycopg (a connection is documented as not usable
concurrently from multiple threads). Before this PR a failed statement left every later
caller failing with "transaction is aborted" until restart; after it, a failed statement can
now actively cancel a different, unrelated in-flight query's transaction instead.

I have not built a repro for this since it needs the streamable-http transport running with
two real concurrent tool calls, so this is a question rather than a claim: is there a
serialization point (a lock, a connection-per-request, single-flight dispatch) between
ServeContext.engine and the transport that I'm missing by reading the code alone? If not,
the rollback in _rollback_after_failure (postgres.py:304) is only safe under the same
single-flight assumption the pre-existing sharing already depended on, and it would be worth
saying so in a comment there.

[AmirF194]

Agreed, that is a reasonable scope call. Not pushing for a separate issue from my side, the docstring note is enough to flag the assumption for whoever picks up the pooling work later.

[lucifer726]

Good catch — I went and read it rather than assuming, and there is no serialization
point I can point you to.

mcp_server.py at 33cfc93c:

• ServeContext is a dataclass holding one engine, documented as "Shared state
  captured once at startup and used by every tool handler".
• The tool functions are sync def (dry_run, query_cube, dry_plan,
  list_models) — none are async def.
• grep -nE "Lock|Semaphore|threading|single.?flight" over that file returns nothing.
• transport == "http" runs mcp.run(transport="streamable-http").

So your read holds, and the consequence is worth stating plainly rather than arguing:
before this PR a failed statement left every later caller failing until restart; with
it, a failed statement can call rollback() while another thread's cursor.execute()
is in flight. That is a different failure mode, not strictly a smaller one.

I did try the fuller fix — a threading.Lock around the execute/rollback block — and
backed it out for scope reasons rather than doctrinal ones:

• It breaks two existing tests (tests/unit/test_postgres_semicolon_unlimited.py),
  which build the connector via PostgresConnector.__new__ and so never receive the
  new instance attribute. Fixing that means touching three test files' mock helpers
  alongside the connector.
• The unsafe sharing predates this PR — the connector was never usable concurrently —
  so serialising it is a separate change with its own design question (lock vs.
  per-request connection vs. psycopg_pool with reset-on-return, which Bug: PostgresConnector never rolls back after a failed query, poisoning the shared connection for the rest of the process #2669 already
  floats).

Instead I did what you suggested: _rollback_after_failure's docstring now records
that it inherits the same single-flight assumption the existing sharing relied on, and
names where that assumption comes from (85a85bac).

Happy to open a separate issue for the concurrency problem, or leave it to you since
your trace of the transport/threading path is more precise than mine — whichever you
prefer. And if a maintainer would rather this PR carry the lock and the test updates,
say the word and I'll put it back.

[AmirF194]

I checked psycopg's autocommit behavior against a real Postgres 16 in a clean container rather than trusting the driver docs from memory.

self.connection = psycopg.connect(...) at line 290 never sets autocommit, unlike every other connector in this codebase (redshift.py:44, canner.py:240, mysql.py:518). With autocommit off, a failed statement leaves the session idle in transaction (aborted), which is exactly the bug this PR patches with three new _rollback_after_failure() call sites. With autocommit on, a failed statement never poisons the next one, no rollback needed:

autocommit=False: second (valid) statement FAILED: InFailedSqlTransaction: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block
autocommit=True: second (valid) statement SUCCEEDED: (1,)

That also covers a gap this PR leaves open: a successful query does not commit either, so today this long-lived, process-shared connector holds one continuously open transaction for its whole life except when a failure now triggers the new rollback. Setting autocommit=True in __init__ would remove _rollback_after_failure and the three added except branches entirely, and match the rest of the connectors.

[lucifer726]

You're right, and thanks — this is a better fix than what I had.

I checked both claims independently rather than taking them on faith. The connector
inconsistency is real (canner.py:240, redshift.py:44, mysql.py:518 all set
autocommit; psycopg was the only one that didn't), and a clean Postgres 16 container
reproduces your numbers:

autocommit=False   after success=INTRANS   after failure=INERROR   next=InFailedSqlTransaction
autocommit=True    after success=IDLE      after failure=IDLE      next=succeeds

The part I had missed entirely is your second point: with autocommit off a successful
statement also leaves the session INTRANS, so this process-shared connector was holding
one snapshot open for its whole life, and rollback-on-failure never touched that. That is
what settles it — my version was patching the symptom.

Pushed the rewrite: _rollback_after_failure and its six except-branch call sites are
gone, replaced by kwargs.setdefault("autocommit", True) so an explicit caller value
still wins. The connector diff is now +10 lines instead of +25 with a new method, and the
concurrency question you raised earlier goes away with it — there is no longer a rollback
that can land on another thread's in-flight statement.

Worth noting the integration tests carried over unchanged and still pass: they assert that
a valid query after a failed one succeeds, not that rollback() was called. They ended up
validating a replacement implementation for free.