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Closes #249.

The MySQL lexing rules lived in two places: rewriteMySQLSQL decided which ? was bindable while rewriting to pyformat, and the driver decided the same thing again when ordering the arguments of a reused sqlc.slice. Keeping the two in step was a non-local invariant, and it broke twice during the MySQL PR review (odd-length dash runs, and the \r line-end rule).

Those rules now live in internal/sqllex, which both sides scan through.

Dialect keeps its fields unexported and the package exports only MySQLRaw, MySQLPyformat and SQLite, so a call site picks a named dialect instead of assembling flags - it cannot lex with rules the producer of that text never used. The two MySQL dialects are defined together because they describe the same grammar either side of the rewrite: the rewriter reads the first, every consumer of its output reads the second. MySQLPyformat also undoes the rewriter's percent doubling when it reads a slice name back out, so the name still matches the parameter sqlc reported.

model.Query is unchanged. psycopg keeps its own lexer: PostgreSQL has no sqlc.slice, so there is no second consumer for it to stay in step with.

Two bugs fixed along the way

Both were found while researching the refactor (~100 sqlc generate probes plus a differential fuzz of the two old lexers), and both are reproduced end to end:

  • a ? inside a backtick or bracket identifier counted as a bind slot on the sqlite family, misordering a reused slice - *ids, *ids, v instead of *ids, v, *ids
  • a % in a slice name was doubled in the SQL constant but not in the marker the generated code replaces, so the expansion silently matched nothing

The fuzz also confirmed the two old MySQL lexers agreed on every reachable input, so this is regression prevention rather than a live MySQL fix.

Validation

Generated output is unchanged: all nine fixture trees regenerate byte-identically under sqlc diff. Go suite and golangci-lint clean, ruff and pyright clean, and the full runtime suite (4444 tests) passes against live MySQL 9 and PostgreSQL 18.

One shape found during the research is out of scope and filed as #258: sqlc.slice combined with a reused numbered parameter binds wrongly on SQLite. It predates this work (the old scanner behaved identically) and needs a decision about how slices expand, not a lexer change.

Closes #249. The MySQL lexing rules lived twice: rewriteMySQLSQL turned
? into %s at IR build time, and the driver re-scanned the emitted text
to order the arguments of a reused sqlc.slice. Keeping the two in step
was a non-local invariant, and it broke twice during review.

The rewriter now reports each bind slot as a by-product of the pass it
already makes, transform carries them on Query.Placeholders, and the
driver consumes that order instead of scanning: placeholderSequence,
scanQuotedRegion, sliceMarker and the seven lexing fields of
placeholderStyle are gone, along with one param-expansion wrapper that
existed only to pass a placeholder style. The MySQL bind order is now
derived from the raw text, where ? is unambiguous, so the %s-versus-%%
disambiguation disappears with it.

Two bugs this makes impossible rather than unlikely:

- A ? inside a backtick or bracket identifier counted as a bind slot on
  the sqlite family, misordering a reused slice's arguments; the single
  scanner skips both quotings.
- A % in a slice name was doubled in the SQL but not in the marker the
  generated code replaces, so the expansion silently matched nothing.
  The marker text is carried rather than rebuilt from the raw name.

Generated output is unchanged: all nine fixture trees regenerate
byte-identically.
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Repo: rayakame/sqlc-gen-better-python PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-08-13T12:36:38.965Z
Learning: In rayakame/sqlc-gen-better-python, the MySQL SQL rewriters in internal/transform/mysql_sql.go and internal/driver/common.go intentionally remain separate to avoid coupling the transform and driver packages. Tests in both packages enforce lexer parity. Do not treat this duplication as a PR-blocking issue without a concrete divergence.

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File: CLAUDE.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-08-12T21:43:42.705Z
Learning: Applies to **/*.sql : Keep .sql files ASCII-only: multi-byte characters in comments corrupt sqlc's
byte-offset parameter rewriting and can silently drop `?` placeholders.
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The change adds a shared dialect-aware SQL lexer for MySQL and SQLite. MySQL rewriting and driver slice expansion now use scanned slot metadata. Slice markers preserve quoted identifiers and escaped percent signs. SQLite, MySQL, and Turso query generation uses dialect-specific expansion rules. Lexer, driver, and fixture tests cover ordering and lexical edge cases. Configuration checksums, documentation, changelog data, and IDE ignore rules were updated.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5a919

The refactor centralizes SQL placeholder scanning and fixes edge cases that could misorder reused slices or silently prevent percent-containing slice names from expanding. Merge should pause for explicit owner acceptance or a guard against zero-value dialects that can hang the scanner; committed IDE workspace metadata also exposes local paths and should be removed or accepted.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The lexer work matches #249, but IDE ignore rules and multiple Python plugin checksum updates are unrelated to the linked issue. Remove the unrelated .gitignore and plugin checksum changes, or link issues that explicitly require those updates.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: sharing one SQL lexer between the rewriter and drivers.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the shared lexer refactor, related bugs, validation, and scope limitations.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR uses shared internal/sqllex scanning in the MySQL rewriter and drivers and addresses the placeholder-ordering risks in #249.

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In @.idea/workspace.xml:
- Around line 13-21: Remove .idea/workspace.xml from the change and ensure it
remains ignored so machine-local IDE state, paths, branches, and run
configurations are not committed.

Apply the same fix in @.idea/material_theme_project_new.xml at line 8: Contains
a developer-specific user identifier covered by the same cleanup.

In `@internal/model/types.go`:
- Around line 103-106: Preserve numbered SQLite parameter identity across
placeholder processing: update Placeholder in internal/model/types.go at lines
103-106 to carry an ordinal or equivalent identity, update sqlitePlaceholders in
internal/transform/sqlite_sql.go at lines 23-30 to record the numeric identity
for each ?N occurrence rather than creating a new plain slot, and add the
repeated-?1/reused-sqlc.slice coverage in internal/transform/sqlite_sql_test.go
at lines 23-28 asserting SQLite bind-position argument ordering.

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Learning: In rayakame/sqlc-gen-better-python, the MySQL SQL rewriters in internal/transform/mysql_sql.go and internal/driver/common.go intentionally remain separate to avoid coupling the transform and driver packages. Tests in both packages enforce lexer parity. Do not treat this duplication as a PR-blocking issue without a concrete divergence.
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Replaces the bind-order-on-the-IR approach with a shared lexer, per
review preference: the rules for telling a bindable placeholder from
one inside a string, identifier or comment now live in one package that
both the MySQL rewriter and the drivers' slice ordering scan through,
instead of being restated on each side of the package boundary.

Dialect keeps its fields unexported and the package exports only
MySQLRaw, MySQLPyformat and SQLite, so a call site cannot assemble
rules the producer of the text never used - the failure mode a plain
flag struct would still allow. MySQLPyformat also undoes the rewriter's
percent doubling when it reads a slice name back out, so the name still
matches the parameter sqlc reported.

model.Query is untouched again; psycopg keeps its own lexer, having no
second consumer to stay in step with.

Both bugs found while researching the refactor stay fixed: a ? inside a
backtick or bracket identifier no longer counts as a bind slot on the
sqlite family, and a slice name containing % keeps a marker that
matches the SQL constant, because the driver takes the marker from the
scanned span instead of rebuilding it. Generated output is unchanged -
all nine fixture trees regenerate byte-identically.
@rayakame rayakame changed the title refactor: lex SQL once and carry the bind order on the IR refactor: share one SQL lexer between the rewriter and the drivers Aug 15, 2026
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Review of the lexer package found the degradation mode had got worse,
not better: slotMarkerText returned an empty string when no scanned
slot matched, and Python's str.replace("") PREPENDS its argument, so
the placeholder list would be spliced onto the front of the statement.
The old code rebuilt the marker from the name and degraded to a no-op
replace instead. The rebuild is back, as a fallback behind the scanned
text, so the percent-in-a-name fix is unaffected.

Also from that review: the rewriter takes its token from
MySQLPyformat.Placeholder() rather than repeating the literal, the
argument expansion only scans when a slice parameter is actually
present (it was lexing PostgreSQL text under SQLite rules and throwing
the result away), and the span-tiling test asserts the spans reach the
end of the input - the old comparison could not fail.
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Repo: rayakame/sqlc-gen-better-python PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-08-13T12:36:38.965Z
Learning: In rayakame/sqlc-gen-better-python, the MySQL SQL rewriters in internal/transform/mysql_sql.go and internal/driver/common.go intentionally remain separate to avoid coupling the transform and driver packages. Tests in both packages enforce lexer parity. Do not treat this duplication as a PR-blocking issue without a concrete divergence.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@CLAUDE.md`:
- Line 130: Update the Markdown text near the psycopg and MySQL placeholder
descriptions to remove arrow notation, replacing each arrow with plain words
such as “replace … with …”; retain the existing placeholder values and ensure
the text uses only ASCII characters.

In `@internal/driver/common_test.go`:
- Around line 838-850: Remove the first contradictory comment in the test case
named “marker inside a string literal is invisible”; retain only the second
comment describing the reconstructed marker behavior.

In `@internal/sqllex/lex.go`:
- Around line 115-124: Update Scan’s placeholder-matching branch to reject or
safely handle a zero-value Dialect with an empty placeholder before
strings.HasPrefix can match; ensure the scanner returns an error or otherwise
exits without looping, while preserving normal behavior for named dialects.

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Comment thread internal/sqllex/lex.go Outdated
Dialect keeps its fields unexported, but the type is exported, so any
caller can construct the zero value - and an empty placeholder matched
strings.HasPrefix at every position, so the scan never advanced. Both
the placeholder and the slice-marker branches now require a placeholder
to exist; a dialect without one reports no bindable tokens while its
spans still tile the input, so a rewriter driven by them cannot drop
bytes. Also drops a stale comment left beside the reconstructed-marker
test case.
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