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Problem

  • On a transaction handle (tx from sql.begin()) and a reserved handle (sql.reserve()), the tagged template rejects with ERR_*_CONNECTION_CLOSED when the handle is closed. unsafe() and file() do not read the handle state (src/js/bun/sql.ts:376, :380, :682, :685).
  • A handle kept after begin() settles or after release() runs statements on the connection that went back to the pool. With max: 1 that is the next caller's open transaction. notify() and reserved.commitDistributed() use unsafe().
  • After a dropped connection, tx.unsafe() rejects with Error: connection must be a PostgresSQLConnection, not ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED.

Fix

  • unsafe() on both handles now calls unsafeQueryFromHandle(). On a handle that does not accept queries, it returns a Query that rejects with connectionClosedError() when it runs. file() reads the file, then calls it too.
  • It is a lazy Query, not a rejected promise: tx.unsafe(q).values() (drizzle-orm calls this) and use as a fragment still work, and an unawaited query reports nothing.
  • COMMIT and ROLLBACK keep the unchecked unsafeQueryFromTransaction(): tx.close() clears acceptQueries before it sends ROLLBACK.
  • Verified: 17 new tests in test/js/sql/ (sql-pool-transaction-isolation, sqlite-sql, postgres-listen-notify) fail without the src/ change. Self-reviewed: 15 concerns, 10 addressed, 4 tracked as issues, 1 declined (Notes).

Background

  • sql.begin(cb) takes a pool connection, runs cb(tx) between BEGIN and COMMIT or ROLLBACK, then releases it. sql.reserve() returns a handle that owns a connection until release().
  • A handle's connectionState has acceptQueries while it is open. It gets closed when the transaction settles, on release(), or when the connection closes.
  • A Query is lazy: it runs when awaited or on .execute().
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Behavior changes

  • A call to unsafe(), file(), notify(), reserved.commitDistributed() or reserved.rollbackDistributed() on a closed handle rejects with ERR_*_CONNECTION_CLOSED. Before, it ran on the pooled connection. sql.commitDistributed() is the documented way to finish a prepared transaction.
  • file() rejects when its handle closes during the read, for example return reserved.file(path) without await from a scope that releases the handle. Before, the statement ran after release().
  • The six inline copies of the state condition now use acceptsQueries(state). The condition is the same.

Why a lazy Query and not Promise.$reject

Not covered, tracked

Evidence

  • Real PostgreSQL, max: 1, 1.4.3-canary.1: stale.unsafe("insert ... returning who") inside a second sql.begin() resolved [{"who":"stale"}] and was rolled back together with that transaction. On this branch it rejects with ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED, and .values(), .simple() and .execute() chains reject the same way with nothing unhandled.
  • The mock servers record every statement per connection, so the tests assert that a stale statement never reaches the wire. Tests without a later statement on the connection send a barrier query first.
  • Each clause has a test that fails without it. With Promise.$reject in place of the Query: the .values() cases, the fragment case and the notify() test fail. With a Query that rejects at creation: the lazy Query test fails on the unhandled rejection. With only the closed bit in acceptsQueries(): the reserved.close({ timeout }) test fails. With the state read before the file read: the three "while the file is read" tests fail.
  • Full files on the debug build: sqlite-sql.test.ts, sql-pool-transaction-isolation.test.ts, postgres-listen-notify.test.ts (329 pass), sql-reserve-abort.test.ts, sql-close-pending-connection.test.ts, sql-onconnect-onclose-throw.test.ts, sql-helpers-validation.test.ts, sql-prepare-false.test.ts.
  • The transaction, reserve, unsafe and file tests of sql.test.ts against a local PostgreSQL: 26 pass. Prepared transaction fails there because that server has max_prepared_transactions = 0.

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The tagged template on a transaction handle or a reserved handle rejects
with CONNECTION_CLOSED once the handle does not accept queries. unsafe()
and file() on the same handle did not read the handle state. On a
handle kept after begin() settled, or after release(), they ran the
statement on the connection that went back to the pool. With max: 1
that is the open transaction of the next caller. After a dropped
connection they surfaced the adapter's internal error.

unsafe() on both handles now goes through unsafeQueryFromHandle(). For a
handle that does not accept queries it returns a Query that rejects with
CONNECTION_CLOSED when it runs. It stays a lazy Query, so .values() and
use as a fragment keep working and a query that nothing awaits reports
nothing. file() reads the file and then calls the same function, so a
handle that closes during the read rejects too. notify() and
reserved.commitDistributed()/rollbackDistributed() send through
unsafe() and get the same behavior.

BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK and SAVEPOINT still use
unsafeQueryFromTransaction() directly, because close() clears
acceptQueries and then has to send ROLLBACK.
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Status: ready for review

Reproduction on 1.4.3-canary.1 (c6b7fcb), no server necessary:

import { SQL } from "bun";
const sql = new SQL({ adapter: "sqlite", filename: ":memory:" });
let leaked;
await sql.begin(async tx => {
  leaked = tx;
  await tx`select 1`;
});
const outcome = p => p.then(v => "resolved " + JSON.stringify(v), e => "rejected " + e.code);
console.log(await outcome(leaked`select 2 as x`)); // rejected ERR_SQLITE_CONNECTION_CLOSED
console.log(await outcome(leaked.unsafe("select 3 as x"))); // resolved [{"x":3}], must reject

With a PostgreSQL server and max: 1, the same leaked.unsafe("insert ...") inside a second sql.begin() resolves and is rolled back together with that second transaction. After await reserved.release(), reserved.unsafe("select 3 as x") resolves while the tagged template rejects.

Tests:

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/js/sql/sql-pool-transaction-isolation.test.ts   # 12 fail
bun bd test test/js/sql/sql-pool-transaction-isolation.test.ts test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts test/js/sql/postgres-listen-notify.test.ts   # 329 pass

With src/ from main and the tests from this branch, the debug build fails the 17 new tests and no other test.

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The SQL implementation centralizes handle acceptance checks and rejects unsafe and file operations after closure. PostgreSQL and SQLite tests cover stale handles, closure races, dropped connections, lazy rejection, and transaction results.

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SQL closed-handle behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
State-aware query handling
src/js/bun/sql.ts
Added acceptsQueries and shared unsafe-query flag construction. Reserved, transaction, and savepoint handles now reject unsafe and file operations when closed or closing.
Pooled handle regression coverage
test/js/sql/sql-pool-transaction-isolation.test.ts, test/js/sql/postgres-listen-notify.test.ts
Added coverage for stale, released, closing, and dropped handles. Tests cover tagged queries, unsafe(), file(), notifications, distributed commit or rollback, pending queries, and pool reuse.
SQLite settled-handle coverage
test/js/sql/sqlite-sql.test.ts
Added coverage for settled transaction handles, lazy unsafe() rejection, file-read races, and committed or rolled-back rows.

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🔴 Critical · Recheck the handle state before running lazy queries. · sql.ts:179-194

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Recheck the handle state before running lazy queries.

unsafeQueryFromHandle checks acceptsQueries(state) only when it creates the Query. Later, queryFromTransactionHandler calls handle.run(connection, query) without checking the state. release() and transaction cleanup can release the pooled connection without canceling pending queries in state.queries. A retained query can therefore execute after pool reuse, outside its original transaction or inside a later transaction.

Pass the state to a state-aware handler and reject the query when acceptsQueries(state) is false immediately before handle.run. Apply this to both unsafe() and file() queries.

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In `@src/js/bun/sql.ts` around lines 179 - 194, Update queryFromTransactionHandler
and the unsafe() and file() query paths to retain and pass the relevant state
into a state-aware handler, then recheck acceptsQueries(state) immediately
before handle.run. If the state no longer accepts queries, remove the query from
transactionQueries and reject it without executing, preserving existing
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- Around line 179-194: Update queryFromTransactionHandler and the unsafe() and
file() query paths to retain and pass the relevant state into a state-aware
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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 findings, I also checked the acceptsQueries refactor against the six inline conditions it replaces — !(closed || !acceptQueries) and !closed && acceptQueries are the same predicate, so no polarity change — and confirmed rejectConnectionClosed matches the (query, handle) shape Query#run invokes handlers with, so the lazy rejecting Query settles the same way as a normal query error.

Extended reasoning...

Findings were posted inline, so this body only records what else was examined. The refactor of the six inline closed || !acceptQueries checks into acceptsQueries(state) preserves the condition exactly (De Morgan), and each replaced site keeps its original action (reject, resolve, or throw). The new closed-handle path returns a Query whose handler is rejectConnectionClosed(query); src/js/internal/sql/query.ts calls handler(this, handle) from both #run and #runAsync, so the extra handle argument is ignored and the query rejects through the normal reject path with the adapter's connectionClosedError(). The remaining items in the ruled-out list are deliberate behavior changes the PR description states, not defects.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 src/js/bun/sql.ts — pre-existing: A caller of tx.close({ timeout }) whose pending queries finish before the timeout gets no ROLLBACK, and the transaction is then COMMITted when the callback returns. On the same path reserved.close({ timeout }) resolves without closing or releasing the connection. At src/js/bun/sql.ts:792-795 (and :520-523 for reserved) the settle branch only clears the timer and resolves; setting closed, sending ROLLBACK and pooledConnection.close() live only in the timer callback. Fix: make the settle branch run the same teardown as the no-timeout path at both sites, so close() with a timeout resolves only after the handle is closed, and unsafe() rejecting during that window is not followed by a COMMIT. [also at: src/js/bun/sql.ts:523 - pre-existing: a caller of reserved.close({ timeout }) whose pending queries finish before the timer gets a resolved promise but the connection is never closed and stays reserved, starving the pool.]

    Extended reasoning...

    The diff rewires the guard at line 763 and 494 to acceptsQueries and makes unsafe()/file() reject while close({ timeout }) is waiting, so the close-with-timeout window now matters more. Trace for the transaction handle: inside sql.begin(cb) the user issues a query q (added to state.queries), then calls await tx.close({ timeout: 5 }). Line 766 clears acceptQueries. Line 775 is true because transactionQueries.size > 0. Lines 780-790 arm a timer that would cancel, send ROLLBACK and set closed. Lines 792-795 wait for q; when q settles they clearTimeout and resolve(). Nothing sets ReservedConnectionState.closed and no ROLLBACK is sent. The callback continues, tx.unsafe() now rejects with ERR_*_CONNECTION_CLOSED (line 274), and when cb returns line 878 sends COMMIT through run_internal_transaction_sql, which only checks the closed bit (line 679) and passes. The transaction the user closed is committed and begin() resolves. Without a timeout (lines…

    Verification: pre-existing — the same code is byte-identical at the base commit (base sql.ts lines 486-500 and 771-786), the diff only rewrites the entry guards at /home/claude/bun/src/js/bun/sql.ts:494 and :763 to acceptsQueries(state) with identical polarity. Trigger: a caller invokes tx.close({ timeout: N }) or reserved.close({ timeout: N }) while at least one query/savepoint/transaction is pending,…

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….close({ timeout })

The barrier query after reserved.close({ timeout }) arrives on the
reserved connection today. It arrives on a new connection when close()
also closes the reserved connection after the wait, which #39617 does.
The test only needs the order of the statements.
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@coderabbitai The path in this finding exists on main, and this PR does not change it. I did not add the check here, for these reasons.

1. It does not come from this PR. unsafe() and the tagged template always returned a lazy Query. On 1.4.3-canary.1, a query that is created in a transaction and first awaited after ROLLBACK already runs. #43245 has the repro and the wire log. The tagged template has the same path, and this PR does not touch it.

2. The proposed check breaks tx.close(). transaction_sql.close() clears acceptQueries and then sends ROLLBACK through the same handler (run_internal_transaction_sql → unsafeQueryFromTransaction → queryFromTransactionHandler). I applied acceptsQueries(state) before handle.run locally and ran three flows against a mock server that records every statement:

Flow This branch (same as 1.4.3-canary.1) With the proposed check
await tx.close() in the begin() callback BEGIN, SELECT 'T1a', ROLLBACK BEGIN, SELECT 'T1a'. No ROLLBACK is sent, so the connection goes back to the pool inside an open transaction.
A query created before reserved.close({ timeout: 60 }) resolves rejects with ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED
try { return reserved.unsafe(q) } finally { reserved.release() } resolves rejects with ERR_POSTGRES_CONNECTION_CLOSED

3. A check of only the closed bit still changes working code. It keeps the first two rows. It still changes the third row, and the same applies to a tagged template query that is returned without await from a scope that releases the handle. That code works today because the query first runs after release(). To reject it is a behavior change on the main query path, so it needs a maintainer decision. #43245 tracks it.

This PR makes a closed handle refuse new calls. Queries that were created before the close are the subject of #43245.

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Replies to the review by claude[bot] and to the comment check. None of the findings needs a change to the fix. All three findings are in code that this PR does not change, and each has a PR or an issue:

Two small pushes since the review:

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

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@robobun Thanks for the detailed reproduction and flow analysis.

I agree that this finding is outside the scope of this PR. The execution-time behavior for queries created before handle closure exists on main and is tracked in #43245.

Adding the proposed acceptsQueries(state) check before handle.run would block the ROLLBACK from transaction_sql.close(). A closed-only check would also change existing lazy-query behavior after reserved.release().

This PR correctly limits the change to rejecting new calls through closed handles. I am withdrawing this finding.

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Learning: In Bun SQL, queries created before a transaction or reserved handle closes can execute after closure because `unsafe()` and tagged-template calls return lazy `Query` objects. This pre-existing execution-time behavior is tracked in GitHub issue `#43245`. Do not require an `acceptsQueries(state)` check immediately before `handle.run`: `transaction_sql.close()` clears `acceptQueries` before it routes its required `ROLLBACK` through `run_internal_transaction_sql`, `unsafeQueryFromTransaction`, and `queryFromTransactionHandler`. A `closed`-only execution-time check also changes the existing behavior of queries returned before `reserved.release()`.

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A note before this PR merges. #43958 is stacked on this branch.

State on 2026-10-06, main at 3f1765a. This branch needs two changes in src/js/bun/sql.ts before it can merge:

  1. Resolve the conflict with main. Fix a crash when a module is removed while its import() is in flight #44281 gave the new Query(...) call in unsafeQueryFromTransaction() a type argument, and this branch changes the same lines. Keep the lines of this branch and add the type argument:
    const query = new Query<import("internal/sql/shared.ts").SQLResultArray<any>, any>(
  2. Use PooledConnection for the pooledConnection parameter of unsafeQueryFromHandle and fileQueryFromHandle. They name the type PooledPostgresConnection, and main renamed it.

I made both changes in a scratch tree, on the merge of this branch with main. bun run build:types && bun x tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json exits with 0 there. I did not run the tests on that tree.

Without the second change, the Lint JavaScript check fails. Measured on 2026-09-28, on the merge with main at a4f1429:

$ bun run build:types && bun x tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json
src/js/bun/sql.ts(279,23): error TS2552: Cannot find name 'PooledPostgresConnection'. Did you mean 'PooledConnection'?
src/js/bun/sql.ts(292,23): error TS2552: Cannot find name 'PooledPostgresConnection'. Did you mean 'PooledConnection'?

The checks on this PR are green because they ran on 2026-09-18. The typecheck of src/js came to CI on 2026-09-21 (#43649).

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