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Reported as a UI glitch (the result grid stays visible instead of
switching to the Messages tab after Commit/Rollback with "server
cursor" mode on), but the root cause is more serious: under server
cursor mode, BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK never actually reached the database.

execute_void() reuses whatever cursor is cached on the connection,
which under server cursor mode is the named/server-side cursor left
over from the last SELECT. A named cursor's execute() always wraps
the statement as DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR <query>, which can't express
a transaction-control statement (DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR COMMIT is a
syntax error) — and it actually failed one step earlier still, on a
prepare= keyword the server-side cursor's execute() doesn't accept
at all (TypeError: keyword not supported: prepare). That exception
was swallowed by a blanket except Exception in the background query
thread, so the statement silently never ran, leaving the transaction
open with no error shown to the user. The empty grid was just the
visible fallout: the next /poll picked up the previous query's
leftover column info instead of reporting "no result set".

When the cached cursor is a server-side one, execute_void() now runs
the statement through a throwaway plain cursor instead. For a
transaction-control statement (judged by its leading keyword, after
skipping any leading comments) that throwaway also becomes the async
cursor and the stale column info and row count are cleared, so poll()
and the status message report on the statement that actually ran; any
other statement, such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend() behind Cancel,
leaves the async cursor alone so a result set still being paged or
downloaded is not detached.

It also guards poll()'s error path against an async cursor whose
_query is still None, which otherwise crashed with an
AttributeError on the next query error after a Commit (reported in
review).

Fixes #8991.

Test plan

  • Verified the failure mode directly against a live PostgreSQL 18
    connection (both the prepare TypeError and the underlying
    DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR COMMIT syntax error), and confirmed the fix's
    approach (a plain connection.cursor() alongside an open named
    cursor) commits correctly and reports description is None
    afterwards.
  • Added test_execute_void_server_cursor.py, covering COMMIT and
    ROLLBACK with a cached server-side cursor: asserts the statement runs
    on a plain cursor (not the cached server one) and that stale column
    info/row count are cleared. Confirmed it fails without the fix and
    passes with it.
  • Added test_poll_explain_query_length_guard.py for the poll()
    guard, and scenarios for the leading-keyword check, including
    comment-prefixed statements.
  • python regression/runtests.py --pkg utils.driver.psycopg3.tests.test_execute_void_server_cursor
    and --pkg tools.sqleditor.tests.test_poll_explain_query_length_guard
    pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed errors when transaction commands such as COMMIT or ROLLBACK run after a server-side query.
    • Improved query error handling when no active query is available; the reported query length is now zero.
    • Cleared stale result metadata after transaction commands so polling and status information reflect the latest operation.
    • Preserved active server-side query results when running non-transaction commands, supporting continued access to those results.
    • Improved recognition of transaction commands when comments or punctuation appear next to the command keyword.

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Transaction-control statements now run on a plain cursor when a server cursor is cached. The change clears stale cursor metadata for these statements. Polling also handles an absent or empty cursor query when it calculates explain_query_length.

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Server cursor transaction flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transaction execution with server cursors
web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg3/connection.py, web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg3/tests/test_execute_void_server_cursor.py
execute_void() classifies transaction-control statements and runs them on a throwaway plain cursor. It replaces the async cursor and clears column metadata and row count for those statements. Other statements retain the cached server cursor. Tests cover classification, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, and non-transaction execution.
Polling guard for empty queries
web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py, web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_poll_explain_query_length_guard.py
poll() calculates explain_query_length only when the async cursor has a non-empty _query. The regression test checks the query error response and a value of 0.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9556d

The changes address transaction handling with server cursors and the query-error polling path; no concrete remaining issue prevents merging after normal checks.

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Found following issue while testing:

get_explain_query_length crashes with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query' on repeated Commit under server-cursor mode
Reproducible on current master.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open a Query Tool.
  2. In the Execute Options (▾ next to Execute): turn "Use server cursor?" ON and "Auto commit?" OFF.
  3. Run any SELECT (e.g. SELECT 1;) — status bar shows "executed with server cursor".
  4. Click execute.
  5. Click execute again
  6. Or try running any other query again

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Result: 500 error — AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query'; the Query Tool becomes unusable (Execute Options dropdown greyed out).

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@hiteshjambhale Confirmed, thanks for the clear repro. Root cause: poll()'s error path (web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/__init__.py, around line 1152) built explain_query_length from conn._Connection__async_cursor._query, guarded only on the cursor itself being truthy, not on _query being set. Once BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK has run through the throwaway plain cursor this PR introduces, the cached async cursor poll() sees next can be one that hasn't executed a real statement yet, so _query is still None. get_explain_query_length() immediately does query_obj.query.decode(), and with query_obj being None that's the AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query' you hit - turning any query error after a commit under server cursor mode into an unhandled 500.

Fix: also require _query to be set before calling get_explain_query_length():

'explain_query_length':
get_explain_query_length(conn._Connection__async_cursor._query)
if conn._Connection__async_cursor and
conn._Connection__async_cursor._query else 0

Added a regression test (web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/tests/test_poll_explain_query_length_guard.py) that reproduces the crash against unfixed code and passes with the fix. Pushed as a new commit on this branch - could you re-test against your original repro steps (server cursor on, auto commit off, SELECT, commit, then another query) when you get a chance?

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Carrying a CodeRabbit finding over from #10330, where it was raised against an unrebased branch that still had this work stacked on it, so it landed on the wrong PR:

Invalidate the cached async cursor for the temporary-cursor path.
poll() reads self.__async_cursor, but this branch only replaces the local cur. The cached server cursor remains available. A subsequent poll() can read its previous result and restore stale column metadata.

I have checked it against the current head (e70c698) and it holds. execute_void() sets self.column_info = None and self.row_count = 0 when it diverts a transaction-control statement onto a throwaway plain cursor, but poll() starts with cur = self.__async_cursor, which is still the previous server cursor and still open, so it walks straight past the not cur or cur.closed guard and repopulates column_info and row_count from the previous query. It is the same family of problem as the get_explain_query_length crash reported above, which the guard in e70c698 handles at the point of use rather than at the source.

The obvious fix does not quite work, which is why I have not simply pushed one. Assigning the throwaway cursor to __async_cursor is out, because poll() calls get_rowcount() and ordered_description(), which the wrapper provides and a plain self.conn.cursor() does not; and routing it back through __cursor(server_cursor=False) returns the cached server cursor rather than a new plain one, which is what the throwaway exists to avoid in the first place. That leaves either setting __async_cursor to None (after which a following poll() answers CURSOR_NOT_FOUND, which is not stale but is not a graceful answer for a statement that legitimately has no result either) or constructing the non-server wrapper directly.

@hiteshjambhale, since you are already on this one, do you have a preference? I did not want to reshape the cursor lifecycle underneath your review without asking.

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@hiteshjambhale I have gone ahead and fixed the stale cursor point myself rather than leave you holding the question, because the objection I raised against the obvious fix turned out not to hold: pushed as 251eb43.

I had assumed a plain self.conn.cursor() would not give us the wrapper API that poll() calls, but the async connection is created with cursor_factory=AsyncDictCursor, so it does. I checked that against real psycopg rather than a mock, and after a COMMIT the throwaway cursor reports description None, get_rowcount() 0 and statusmessage COMMIT, which is exactly what poll() wants, whilst the cached server-side cursor still reports closed as False with the previous SELECT's description intact, which is precisely why it could not stay as the async cursor.

So the throwaway cursor now becomes the async cursor as well. poll() reports no columns and no rows, status_message() reports the statement that actually ran rather than the previous query's message, and the cursor cached for the connection is left alone so the next query still reuses it. The regression test in test_execute_void_server_cursor.py now carries the following poll() call through as well, and fails without the fix with the previous query's metadata coming straight back (AssertionError: [{'name': 'x', 'pos': 0}] is not None).

One thing to be aware of if you re-test by hand: a server-cursor SELECT on this branch still fails with TypeError: keyword not supported: prepare from psycopg, because that one is fixed separately in #10343 and is not in here. You will want both branches together to exercise the Query Tool end to end.

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Consider closing the throwaway cursor after the statement runs.

self.conn.cursor() creates a cursor that is never closed in this method. The reference survives in self.__async_cursor until the next execute_async or execute_void call replaces it. A client-side cursor holds no server-side resource, so the impact is small, but release_async_cursor() remains the only path that closes it.

If you keep the takeover, document that ownership moves to self.__async_cursor so a later reader does not add a close() that breaks the following poll().

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In `@web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg3/connection.py` at line 1184, Ensure the
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statement completes, unless ownership is intentionally transferred to
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- Line 1177: The execute_void() handling for AsyncDictServerCursor must not
replace self.__async_cursor for non-transaction statements such as
cancel_transaction()’s cancellation query. Restrict cursor replacement to
transaction-control statements, or add and use an explicit flag from those
callers, while preserving the active server cursor for later pagination and
download operations.

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execute_void() diverts onto a throwaway plain cursor whenever the cursor
cached for the connection is a server-side one, since a named cursor can
only execute through DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR, and it then made that
throwaway the async cursor so that the following poll() and
status_message() report on the statement that actually ran. The second
half of that was applied to every statement rather than only to the ones
that need it, so a statement such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend() that
cancel_transaction() issues could detach the cursor a result set was
still being paged or downloaded from, leaving the pagination and download
calls that follow reading a throwaway with no rows in it.

The throwaway is still used for any statement, because a server-side
cursor cannot run one directly, but it now becomes the async cursor only
for a transaction-control statement, judged by the leading keyword. Those
are the statements that leave no result set behind and whose result the
Query Tool polls for immediately afterwards.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
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@hiteshjambhale the stale cursor point that CodeRabbit raised on this branch is now dealt with as well, in 5a4515e, along with the two fixes I described above.

The short version is that execute_void() was making the throwaway cursor the async cursor for every statement, not just for transaction control, so a statement such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend(...) behind Cancel could detach the cursor a result set was still being paged from. The throwaway is still used for anything that runs whilst a server-side cursor is cached, since a named cursor can only execute through DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR, but it only becomes the async cursor for BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK and friends now.

When you get a chance, could you re-test your original repro (server cursor on, auto commit off, a SELECT, commit, then another query)? Note that a server-cursor SELECT on this branch alone still fails with TypeError: keyword not supported: prepare from psycopg, which is fixed separately in #10343, so you will want both branches together to exercise the Query Tool end to end.

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execute_void() diverts onto a throwaway plain cursor whenever the cursor
cached for the connection is a server-side one, since a named cursor can
only execute through DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR, and it then made that
throwaway the async cursor so that the following poll() and
status_message() report on the statement that actually ran. The second
half of that was applied to every statement rather than only to the ones
that need it, so a statement such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend() that
cancel_transaction() issues could detach the cursor a result set was
still being paged or downloaded from, leaving the pagination and download
calls that follow reading a throwaway with no rows in it.

The throwaway is still used for any statement, because a server-side
cursor cannot run one directly, but it now becomes the async cursor only
for a transaction-control statement, judged by the leading keyword. Those
are the statements that leave no result set behind and whose result the
Query Tool polls for immediately afterwards.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
dpage added a commit to dpage/pgadmin4 that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
_is_transaction_control() judged a statement by its first word, so one
opening with a -- line comment or a /* */ block comment was classified as
something other than transaction control, and execute_void() would then
leave the cached server-side cursor as the async cursor after a COMMIT or
ROLLBACK, putting the stale result metadata back in front of poll().

Skip leading whitespace and comments first, handling nested block
comments as PostgreSQL does, before taking the leading keyword.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
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execute_void() diverts onto a throwaway plain cursor whenever the cursor
cached for the connection is a server-side one, since a named cursor can
only execute through DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR, and it then made that
throwaway the async cursor so that the following poll() and
status_message() report on the statement that actually ran. The second
half of that was applied to every statement rather than only to the ones
that need it, so a statement such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend() that
cancel_transaction() issues could detach the cursor a result set was
still being paged or downloaded from, leaving the pagination and download
calls that follow reading a throwaway with no rows in it.

The throwaway is still used for any statement, because a server-side
cursor cannot run one directly, but it now becomes the async cursor only
for a transaction-control statement, judged by the leading keyword. Those
are the statements that leave no result set behind and whose result the
Query Tool polls for immediately afterwards.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
dpage added a commit to dpage/pgadmin4 that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2026
_is_transaction_control() judged a statement by its first word, so one
opening with a -- line comment or a /* */ block comment was classified as
something other than transaction control, and execute_void() would then
leave the cached server-side cursor as the async cursor after a COMMIT or
ROLLBACK, putting the stale result metadata back in front of poll().

Skip leading whitespace and comments first, handling nested block
comments as PostgreSQL does, before taking the leading keyword.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
dpage and others added 5 commits September 24, 2026 11:37
…mode (pgadmin-org#8991)

execute_void() blindly reused whatever cursor was cached for the
connection, which under "server cursor" mode is the named/server-side
AsyncDictServerCursor left over from the last SELECT. A named cursor's
execute() always wraps the statement as `DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR
<query>`, which cannot express a transaction-control statement, so
BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK silently failed (failing one step earlier still,
on a `prepare` keyword the server-side cursor's execute() doesn't
accept at all) and the exception was swallowed by the background query
thread. The transaction was therefore never actually committed or
rolled back, and the next poll() picked up the previous query's
leftover column info, which is what made the result grid appear
instead of the Messages tab.

Run the statement through a throwaway plain cursor instead, leaving
the cached server-side cursor untouched, and clear the stale column
info so poll() correctly reports no result set.
… yet

Under server cursor mode, execute_void() running BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK
on a throwaway plain cursor can leave the cached async cursor pointing
at a cursor that has not executed a real statement yet, so its _query
attribute is still None. poll()'s error path called
get_explain_query_length() on that None unconditionally, crashing with
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query' on the next
query error and leaving the Query Tool unusable, instead of returning
the intended JSON error response.
Clearing column_info and row_count when execute_void() diverts
BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK onto a throwaway plain cursor was not enough on its
own, because poll() rebuilds both from self.__async_cursor, and that was
still the cached server-side cursor from the previous SELECT. It reports
itself open, so poll() walked past its "not cur or cur.closed" guard and
restored the previous query's column metadata and row count over the
"no result set" the transaction-control statement had just left behind,
which is the same stale state that made the result grid appear in place
of the Messages tab.

Make the throwaway cursor the async cursor as well. The connection's
cursor_factory is AsyncDictCursor, so it carries ordered_description(),
get_rowcount() and the rest of the API poll() calls, and it describes the
statement that actually ran: poll() therefore reports no columns and no
rows, and status_message() reports COMMIT or ROLLBACK rather than the
previous query's message. The cursor cached for the connection is left
alone, so the next query still reuses it.
execute_void() diverts onto a throwaway plain cursor whenever the cursor
cached for the connection is a server-side one, since a named cursor can
only execute through DECLARE ... CURSOR FOR, and it then made that
throwaway the async cursor so that the following poll() and
status_message() report on the statement that actually ran. The second
half of that was applied to every statement rather than only to the ones
that need it, so a statement such as the SELECT pg_cancel_backend() that
cancel_transaction() issues could detach the cursor a result set was
still being paged or downloaded from, leaving the pagination and download
calls that follow reading a throwaway with no rows in it.

The throwaway is still used for any statement, because a server-side
cursor cannot run one directly, but it now becomes the async cursor only
for a transaction-control statement, judged by the leading keyword. Those
are the statements that leave no result set behind and whose result the
Query Tool polls for immediately afterwards.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
_is_transaction_control() judged a statement by its first word, so one
opening with a -- line comment or a /* */ block comment was classified as
something other than transaction control, and execute_void() would then
leave the cached server-side cursor as the async cursor after a COMMIT or
ROLLBACK, putting the stale result metadata back in front of poll().

Skip leading whitespace and comments first, handling nested block
comments as PostgreSQL does, before taking the leading keyword.

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
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In `@web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg3/connection.py`:
- Around line 116-119: Update transaction-control keyword parsing after
_skip_leading_comments to recognize the leading keyword at SQL token boundaries,
including adjacent block comments and semicolons followed by line comments; add
tests for both COMMIT/* note */; and COMMIT;-- note forms.

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Comment thread web/pgadmin/utils/driver/psycopg3/connection.py Outdated
Splitting on whitespace left a comment or semicolon written straight
after the keyword attached to it, so COMMIT/* note */; and COMMIT;-- note
were not recognised as transaction control, and execute_void() left the
previous result's server-side cursor as the async cursor. Match the
leading identifier instead, and add scenarios for both forms.
When the cursor cached for the connection is a server-side one,
execute_void() runs the statement on a throwaway plain cursor. For a
transaction-control statement that throwaway becomes the async cursor and
is closed later by release_async_cursor() or replaced by the next query,
but for anything else nothing held it, and it was left for garbage
collection. Close it once the statement has run, and say in the comment
that ownership passes to the async cursor in the other case, so that
nobody adds a close() there that would break the following poll().

Raised by CodeRabbit on pgadmin-org#10321.
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dpage commented Oct 6, 2026

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Picking up the CodeRabbit nitpick from the 3 September review (closing the throwaway cursor in execute_void()): fixed in 4f2c9ff. The throwaway is now closed once the statement has run when nothing else holds it, and for a transaction-control statement, where it becomes the async cursor, the comment now says that ownership passes to self.__async_cursor so it must not be closed there. The regression tests assert both.

dpage added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2026
…er server cursor mode. #8991 (#10321)

execute_void() reused the cached server-side cursor, whose execute() cannot
run a transaction-control statement, and the resulting exception was
swallowed, so the statement never reached the database. Run such statements
through a throwaway plain cursor instead, and guard poll()'s error path
against a cursor with no query.
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Merged to master as 4682025.

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Result grid does not move messages tab when commit/rollback button is clicked with server cursor on.

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