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supabase_typegen could only read a GeneratorMetadata document on stdin and relied on supabase gen types --lang dart to produce it, which has not shipped (supabase/cli#6230 was closed and supabase/cli#6404 carries no Dart path). This ports the introspection of @supabase/postgrest-typegen to Dart so the tool can produce the document itself:

dart run supabase_typegen --local
dart run supabase_typegen --db-url 'postgresql://…'
dart run supabase_typegen --db-url 'postgresql://…' --dump-metadata

The output is byte-identical to sortGeneratorMetadata(await introspect(pool)) of the TypeScript package at the pinned supabase/sdk revision. Stdin stays the default when no connection option is given, so the eventual CLI integration is untouched.

Everything new lives under lib/src/introspection/, lib/introspection.dart, test/introspection/, the two tool scripts and the drift workflow, so it can be removed as a whole once the CLI ships the Dart path.

What is ported

  • The eleven SQL builders, one file each, with the include/exclude schema filter and the pg-format literal escaping, mirroring the trimmed builders of refactor(postgrest-typegen): drop the unused postgres-meta options from the introspection sdk#180 and the table-rendered view definition rewrites of refactor(postgrest-typegen): render the view definition rewrites from a table sdk#179.
  • The view relationship expansion (cartesian product over view key dependencies).
  • The ordering pass, with a stable merge sort because the TypeScript sort relies on Array.prototype.sort being stable for composite primary keys and tied relationships.
  • localeCompare semantics: the ICU root collation for printable ASCII (punctuation, digits, then letters with case as the last tiebreaker, lower case first), verified against Bun and Node. Non-ASCII code units sort after ASCII by code unit, which deviates from ICU for accented names and only affects collection order.

The int8 normalization of normalize.ts has no Dart counterpart because package:postgres returns int8 as int; the only value shape that needed adjusting is float4 (prorows), where integral doubles become integers so 1000 prints as JavaScript would.

Connection handling

--db-url honours sslmode the way package:postgres supports it (disable, require, verify-ca, verify-full). Without one the tool sends an SSLRequest probe first and connects with require or disable accordingly, like libpq's prefer. The probe exists because letting package:postgres fail the TLS attempt leaks the socket and keeps the process alive after the work is done.

--local runs supabase status -o env and takes DB_URL, so the SQL in supabase/ stays the single source of truth for local generation.

Verification

  • Parity test (test/introspection/parity_test.dart): seeds a fresh postgres:15 with test/fixtures/seed.sql when the database is empty, introspects it unfiltered and restricted to public, and asserts equality with test/fixtures/generator_metadata.json record by record. It also runs the binary and checks --dump-metadata reproduces the fixture byte for byte and --output - reproduces test/goldens/supabase_schema.dart. The test skips unless SUPABASE_TYPEGEN_PARITY_DATABASE_URL is set; test.yml starts the container for the supabase_typegen matrix entry.
  • Drift guard (tool/check_introspection_drift.ts): fetches the TypeScript builders of the pinned supabase/sdk revision from GitHub, renders every query for three filter scenarios, and compares with dart run tool/dump_introspection_sql.dart. The new typegen-drift.yml runs it on PRs touching the package and weekly against supabase/sdk main with --latest, so an upstream SQL change surfaces as a failing scheduled run. Bumping the pin is: run the script with --ref, port the printed diff, regenerate the fixture with tool/regenerate_fixture.ts --source <sdk checkout>, update postgrestTypegenRevision.
  • Unit tests for the literal escaping, the schema filter and builder conditionals, the relationship expansion (ported from upstream), the sort and collation, and the supabase status parsing.
  • Manually ran --local against the running local stack and the error paths (wrong password, unreachable host, conflicting flags).

Notes

Closes SDK-1834.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added direct database introspection using a PostgreSQL connection URL or local Supabase project.
    • Added support for exporting raw generator metadata as JSON.
    • Added configurable output to standard output or a file.
    • Added schema filtering and comprehensive introspection of tables, views, relationships, functions, and types.
    • Added automatic TLS support detection with plaintext fallback when appropriate.
  • Documentation

    • Updated usage guidance for direct connections, local projects, output options, metadata export, and connection security.

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The supabase_typegen package now supports direct PostgreSQL and local Supabase introspection, metadata output, canonical sorting, relationship expansion, parity tests, and automated SQL drift checks against postgrest-typegen.

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Typegen introspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI input and output flow
packages/supabase_typegen/bin/supabase_typegen.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/lib/introspection.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/local_database_url.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/pubspec.yaml, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/local_database_url_test.dart
The CLI accepts stdin, --db-url, and --local. It supports --dump-metadata and centralized output writing.
Database introspection and SQL builders
packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/*, packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/sql/*, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/pg_format_test.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/sql_test.dart
The package adds PostgreSQL connection handling, query execution, catalog SQL builders, schema filtering, metadata assembly, and SSL probing.
Relationships and canonical metadata ordering
packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/relationships.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/collation.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/sort.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/relationships_test.dart, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/sort_test.dart
The package expands view relationships and sorts metadata with stable locale-aware ordering.
Live database parity validation
.github/workflows/test.yml, packages/supabase_typegen/test/introspection/parity_test.dart
The test workflow starts PostgreSQL 15 for supabase_typegen. Parity tests compare introspection, metadata dumps, and generated Dart with fixtures.
Upstream SQL drift checks
.github/workflows/typegen-drift.yml, packages/supabase_typegen/tool/*, packages/supabase_typegen/README.md
The workflow compares rendered Dart SQL with the corresponding TypeScript builders for pinned and latest releases. The README documents direct connection modes and metadata output.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Developer
  participant TypegenDriftWorkflow
  participant DumpIntrospectionSQL
  participant PostgrestTypegen
  TypegenDriftWorkflow->>DumpIntrospectionSQL: Render Dart SQL scenarios
  TypegenDriftWorkflow->>PostgrestTypegen: Install pinned or latest release
  TypegenDriftWorkflow->>PostgrestTypegen: Render matching SQL scenarios
  TypegenDriftWorkflow->>TypegenDriftWorkflow: Compare SQL and report differences
  TypegenDriftWorkflow-->>Developer: Exit successfully or fail with diff
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Direct database generation can use insecure transport, produce inconsistent metadata for overlapping filters, or fail to compile under an allowed dependency resolution. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/test.yml:
- Around line 199-204: Update the PostgreSQL readiness loop around docker exec
supabase_typegen_parity so it records whether pg_isready succeeded and
explicitly fails the step after all 30 checks fail. Preserve the existing retry
and sleep behavior, and allow the workflow to continue only when PostgreSQL
becomes ready.

In `@packages/supabase_typegen/bin/supabase_typegen.dart`:
- Line 113: Update the JSON parsing flow around jsonDecode in the
document-loading logic to validate that the decoded value is a non-null
Map<String, dynamic> before assigning it to document. For valid JSON with an
incompatible shape, such as an array or null, return the existing documented
parse error instead of allowing a cast exception to escape.

In `@packages/supabase_typegen/lib/src/introspection/introspect.dart`:
- Line 62: Update the postgres dependency constraint to require at least version
3.5.7 so the Connection.openFromUrl calls in the introspection code are
available; keep the existing API usage unchanged.
- Around line 92-97: Update the schemas collection in the introspection flow to
apply include-over-exclude precedence, matching filterByList and the postgrest
typegen behavior. Change only the schemas filter; preserve the existing
unfiltered types behavior and the system-schema defaults.

In `@packages/supabase_typegen/README.md`:
- Around line 48-49: Update the connection default described in the README so an
absent sslmode uses sslmode=require rather than probing TLS and falling back to
plaintext. Permit plaintext only when the caller explicitly sets
sslmode=disable, and remove the implied libpq-style prefer behavior.

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… and --db-url

Ports the introspection of @supabase/postgrest-typegen 0.2.0 to Dart so the
GeneratorMetadata document can be produced without the Supabase CLI, which
has no Dart path for gen types yet. The document is byte-identical to
sortGeneratorMetadata(introspect(pool)) of the TypeScript package, so the
parser, goldens and generated code are unchanged, and the stdin mode stays
the default for the eventual CLI integration.

- --db-url connects to any Postgres; sslmode is honoured the way
  package:postgres supports it and probed like libpq's prefer without one.
- --local resolves DB_URL from supabase status -o env.
- --dump-metadata writes the document instead of the generated code.
- A parity test seeds a fresh postgres:15 with test/fixtures/seed.sql and
  compares the introspection with test/fixtures/generator_metadata.json.
- tool/check_introspection_drift.ts renders the vendored SQL with the pinned
  TypeScript builders and fails on any difference; a weekly workflow runs it
  against the newest release.
- Fail the parity Postgres readiness step instead of running tests against
  a database that never came up.
- Reject stdin documents that are valid JSON but not an object with the
  parse error and exit code 65 instead of an uncaught cast.
- Require postgres 3.5.9, the release whose connection string support the
  direct connection modes rely on.
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…sdk revision and mirror its cleanup

The port now follows supabase/sdk at 0472bafa, the head of the
postgrest-typegen cleanup stack, instead of the 0.2.0 npm release:

- the SQL builders take the schema filter alone, the types query is a
  constant and the view definition rewrites are rendered from a table,
  matching the upstream refactors;
- the views query carries is_insert_enabled and is_update_enabled, the
  columns query reports trigger and rule backed view columns as updatable
  and treats virtual generated columns as generated, matching the
  releases after 0.2.0;
- introspect no longer re-filters the schemas rows.

The drift check fetches the TypeScript builders from GitHub at the pinned
revision (--latest compares against main) and the fixture tool reads a
local supabase/sdk checkout. The fixture and goldens are regenerated: the
join view with an INSTEAD OF INSERT trigger now gets an Insert type.
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