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Problem

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  • An options object with url, hostname, host or path names a target. The resolver reads the environment URLs only when none is set.
  • { adapter: "sqlite", url } now opens url, not the environment URL or :memory:.
  • Per-field variables still apply. A lone port or adapter still uses the environment URL.
  • Verified: test/js/sql/adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts (14 new cases fail on 1.4.3-canary). Also sqlite-sql, adapter-override.

Background

  • shared.ts resolves every Bun.SQL input form into one record that picks the driver.
  • In the environment lookup the variable name decides the adapter. A TLS_* name sets sslmode=require.
  • Considered keeping the lookup and letting the URL scheme win: DATABASE_URL credentials still reach the explicit host.

Downsides

  • new SQL({ hostname }) no longer takes the adapter, credentials, database or port from DATABASE_URL. To override one field, pass the URL: new SQL(process.env.DATABASE_URL, { hostname }).
  • { url } and { hostname } no longer get sslmode=require from a set TLS_* variable. They are plaintext unless they ask for TLS (?sslmode=require, tls: true), as new SQL(url) always was.
  • Up to four property reads per new SQL(options). +24 bytes in the builtins blob.
Notes
  • Reported in an internal configuration precedence audit (invariant: explicit programmatic configuration beats the ambient environment, per field).

  • Repro on 1.4.3-canary (367d939), options only, no server. With new SQL({ url: "postgres://appuser:apppw@127.0.0.1:1/appdb" }) and new SQL({ hostname: "127.0.0.1", port: 1, username, password, database }):

    • MYSQL_URL=mysql://x:y@127.0.0.1:9/x: both resolve to adapter mysql.
    • SQLITE_URL=sqlite://envfile.db: both resolve to adapter sqlite. The field form opens envfile.db.
    • DATABASE_URL=:memory:: the field form resolves to in-memory SQLite.
    • TLS_DATABASE_URL / TLS_POSTGRES_DATABASE_URL: both get sslMode 2 (require).
    • DATABASE_URL=postgres://envuser:ENVSECRET@10.9.9.9/envdb with new SQL({ hostname: "127.0.0.1", port }): user envuser, password ENVSECRET, database envdb.
      With the change all of these resolve to adapter postgres, the explicit host and port, sslMode 0, and user / password / database from the options or from PGUSER / PGPASSWORD / PGDATABASE / USER.
  • Tests: 14 of the new cases fail on 1.4.3-canary, and all 112 in the file pass with the change. The merged tree also passes sqlite-sql, sqlite-url-parsing, adapter-override, postgres-pgsslmode-env, sql-connect-error-reporting, sql-mariadb-json and sql-tls-ip-literal-host (578 tests in 8 files).

  • A lone port is not a target: { port: 9 } with DATABASE_URL set keeps the current merge (environment URL plus the override). An explicit adapter with no target still reads that adapter's *_URL.

  • Size: bun run src/codegen/bundle-modules.ts --debug=OFF on origin/main and on this branch. InternalModuleRegistryConstants.bin is 2,630,918 and 2,630,942 bytes.

  • Not in this PR: the database name from the URL path vs PGDATABASE is carried by sql: take the URL database before PGDATABASE and use a unix socket path as given #41570. The verify-ca / verify-full vs NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 interaction is sql: a verify-ca or verify-full sslmode always verifies the certificate #41589. sql(sqlite): honor options.url with adapter: "sqlite" and keep "?" in plain filenames #38427 also makes { adapter: "sqlite", url } honor url, with the same resolution order as here, plus query-string handling for plain filenames that this PR does not touch.

  • Self-reviewed: 15 concerns raised on the first combined draft. Addressed: narrowed the target list (a lone port no longer suppresses the environment URL), moved the database and TLS hunks into their own PRs, pinned the TLS_DATABASE_URL-as-url case.

  • sslMode with TLS_DATABASE_URL=postgres://app:pw@primary/db set (0 is disable, 2 is require):

    call 1.4.3-canary this PR
    new SQL() 2 2
    new SQL(TLS_DATABASE_URL) 0 0
    new SQL({ url: TLS_DATABASE_URL }) 2 0
    new SQL("postgres://o@other/odb") 0 0
    new SQL({ url: "postgres://o@other/odb" }) 2 0
    new SQL({ hostname, username, password, database }) 2 0

    The string form never took require from the variable name. The options form did, as a side effect of reading the environment. The docs now state this and the two ways to ask for TLS.

  • filename is not in the target list. A sqlite-looking filename already wins over the environment URL, and a bare one ({ filename: "./dev.db" }) is not recognised as SQLite at all. That is a separate bug, handed off.

  • Found during the review and handed off separately: TLS_DATABASE_URL with PGSSLMODE=verify-full resolves to require.


no test proof · iteration 4 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/sql/adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts

…arget

An options object with url, filename, hostname or host is a complete
connection target. The DATABASE_URL family of variables no longer
supplies the adapter, the URL or the sslmode for such an object. Fixes
the remaining half of #22147: an explicit target could still become a
sqlite or mysql connection, or get sslmode=require forced on, from an
unrelated variable in the shell.
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Options-object SQL connections now use environment-derived URLs only when no explicit url, hostname, host, or path is set. URL resolution checks filename before url for SQLite or an unspecified adapter. Tests and documentation describe these precedence rules and TLS behavior.

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SQL connection precedence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect explicit targets and resolve fallbacks
src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts
hasConnectionTarget recognizes url, hostname, host, and path. Environment URL lookup is skipped when one is present. SQLite or an unspecified adapter checks filename before url; known non-SQLite adapters use url.
Validate precedence behavior
test/js/sql/adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts, docs/runtime/sql.mdx
Tests cover explicit targets, adapter selection, TLS handling, field fallbacks, socket paths, and targetless options. Documentation describes environment URLs as fallbacks.

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Explicit connection targets now bypass environment URL fallbacks, and explicit SQLite URLs resolve correctly. The change is ready to merge after normal checks.

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Status: reproduced on bun 1.4.3-canary with MYSQL_URL, SQLITE_URL, DATABASE_URL=:memory:, TLS_DATABASE_URL, and DATABASE_URL credentials against new SQL({ url }) and new SQL({ hostname, port, ... }). The fix reads the environment connection URL only when the options name no target (url, hostname, host or path), and { adapter: "sqlite", url } now opens url. Tests: test/js/sql/adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts. Companion PR for the verify-* sslmode case: #41589.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I checked two adjacent concerns: the !! truthiness gate in hasConnectionTarget matches the downstream reads at lines 1709-1722 (which also skip empty-string url/filename), so { url: "" } falling back to env is consistent; and the test file's beforeEach already clears every SQL_ENV_VARS entry the new tests set, so no state leaks between cases.

Extended reasoning...

The inline finding covers the path omission, which the PR author states is deliberate and pins with a test — that's a design call a human should weigh. Separately I verified the empty-string edge of the new truthiness check aligns with how the resolver already treats empty url/filename values further down, and confirmed the existing beforeEach env reset covers all vars the new tests mutate. Nothing else surfaced.

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LGTM — thanks for adding path to hasConnectionTarget and pinning it with the unix-socket test.

Checked that the env-URL gate now covers all five target-naming keys (url/filename/hostname/host/path) and that per-field env vars (PGHOST etc.) are untouched since only the getConnectionDetailsFromEnvironment call is gated. The new tests cover both the positive matrix (each *_URL env var × url/field forms, TLS_* not forcing sslmode, aliases) and the negative contract (options without a target — {port}, {max, username}, {adapter} — still fall back to env). The existing beforeEach env snapshot/restore in this file isolates the new tests' process.env mutations.

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Overview

This PR gates the getConnectionDetailsFromEnvironment(...) call in src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts on a new hasConnectionTarget(options) predicate, so DATABASE_URL/*_URL/TLS_* env vars are consulted only when the options object does not already name a connection target. The runtime change is 6 lines; the rest is 11 new test cases in the existing test/js/sql/adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts and a docs paragraph. Since the previous review, commit 5abf479 added path to the predicate and a test pinning that a unix-socket path counts as a target, addressing the one issue I raised.

Security risks

None introduced. The change tightens precedence so explicit programmatic configuration beats ambient environment — the safer direction. It does not touch TLS handling itself (only stops TLS_* env var names from forcing sslmode=require onto an explicitly-configured target), does not touch credential handling, and does not add any new env-var reads.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. The runtime change is a single conditional gate around an existing call; the predicate is a plain truthiness check over five well-known option keys. The behavior it produces matches what docs/runtime/sql.mdx already described. The variant matrix in the tests is thorough: every env-URL name, both option shapes (url string vs. field form), the host alias, filename, unix-socket path, the TLS_* names, and the negative cases where env fallback must still apply ({port}, {max, username}, {adapter} alone).

Other factors

The predicate uses truthiness (!!(o.url || ...)) rather than presence checks, so an empty-string url/hostname/filename is treated as "no target" and still falls back to env. That matches the surrounding ||-chain style throughout shared.ts and an empty string is not a usable target for the network adapters, so I don't consider it blocking. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths. Bug hunt ran to dry_streak with no findings.

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LGTM — the earlier note about path is addressed (it now counts as a connection target, with a test), and the credentials-leak test added since covers the remaining hazard.

What was reviewed: the hasConnectionTarget gate in shared.ts — checked all five keys against the fields the resolver later reads (url, filename, hostname/host, path); a lone port/adapter still falls through to env, pinned by tests. The beforeEach/afterAll in the test file already snapshot and restore the full process.env, so the new USER/PASSWORD/PGPASSWORD writes don't leak. Docs paragraph matches the implemented key list.

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Overview

A 6-line guard in src/js/internal/sql/shared.ts stops parseConnectionDetailsFromOptionsOrEnvironment from reading DATABASE_URL/*_URL/TLS_* env connection strings when the caller's options object already names where to connect (url, filename, hostname, host, or path). This fixes env vars hijacking the adapter, target host, and sslmode of an explicit new SQL({ ... }) call. A docs paragraph and 13 new test cases in the existing adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts accompany it.

Security risks

The change reduces a real hazard: environment credentials no longer get sent to a programmatically-named host, and an ambient SQLITE_URL can no longer silently redirect a Postgres client to a local file. No new attack surface is added — the guard only narrows when env is consulted. The truthiness check treats empty-string url/hostname as "no target", which is the sensible fallback (an empty string is not a usable target).

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. It is a behavior change to precedence rules, but the new behavior is the one the docs already implied ("explicit beats ambient"), and the PR pins the one intentional regression ({ url: process.env.TLS_DATABASE_URL } no longer inherits sslmode from the variable name) with a dedicated test. My earlier inline concern — unix-socket path being omitted — was fixed in a follow-up commit and is now covered by both the helper and a test.

Other factors

Since my last review only a test commit landed (env credentials not leaking to an explicitly-named host, and per-field PG* vars still filling gaps). The file's existing beforeEach/afterAll hooks snapshot and restore all of process.env, so the new env writes are hermetic. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths. No outstanding third-party changes-requested reviews.

robobun added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
Drop the environment connection URL change (carried by #41586) and the
verify-ca / verify-full rejectUnauthorized change (carried by #41589).
Fold in the database name precedence tests from #37811, with the
host-less URL rows adjusted to the libpq reading this branch uses.
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Dedupe note: #41570 no longer changes when the environment connection URL is read, so this PR is the only one that carries that rule (hasConnectionTarget). #41570 (URL database before PGDATABASE, unix socket path used as given) and #41589 (verify modes always verify) touch other hunks of shared.ts and other regions of adapter-env-var-precedence.test.ts. The three branches merge cleanly in any order and the SQL option tests pass on the merged tree.

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An options object with an explicit database still must not take the
username or password from DATABASE_URL, and PGUSER/PGPASSWORD (which
are not bound to a host) still fill in the missing fields.
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Pushed 55bd817: the credentials test now also covers { hostname, port, database } (username and password must not come from DATABASE_URL) and PGUSER/PGPASSWORD filling in the missing fields while DATABASE_URL is set.

sql.options is the same object the pool hands to createConnection, so these assertions match what goes on the wire. Checked with a cleartext-auth peer on loopback and DATABASE_URL=postgres://envuser:ENVSECRET@10.9.9.9:5432/envdb, USER=shelluser:

options bun 1.4.3 peer saw (user / database / password) this branch
{ hostname, port } envuser / envdb / ENVSECRET shelluser / shelluser / (empty)
{ hostname, port, username: "optuser" } optuser / envdb / ENVSECRET optuser / optuser / (empty)
{ hostname, port, database: "optdb" } envuser / optdb / ENVSECRET shelluser / optdb / (empty)
{ hostname, port } + PGUSER=pguser PGPASSWORD=PGPW envuser / envdb / ENVSECRET pguser / pguser / PGPW

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{ adapter: "sqlite", url } used to ignore url and open the environment
URL or :memory:. With the environment lookup now gated on the options
naming a target, url must be honored here as well, so it opens the same
database that { url } alone does. filename still wins over url.
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A sqlite-looking filename already wins over the environment URL, and a
bare filename is not recognised as SQLite at all (separate bug), so the
filename clause changed nothing that a test could pin. The check now
lists url, hostname, host and path.

The docs say that an explicit target also loses the sslmode=require
that a TLS_* variable implies, and how to ask for TLS explicitly. The
test pins that the options form now matches the string form, which
never took the sslmode from the variable name, and that tls: true
requires TLS.

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