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T-SQL's AS BEGIN...END body idiom never parses structurally (the grammar has no create_procedure form for it), so ERROR-node recovery is the only path such routines have into the graph — and the recovery pattern matched only bare/double-quoted names and only OR REPLACE. In a T-SQL codebase that brackets every identifier ([dbo].[usp_X]) and uses CREATE OR ALTER, every stored procedure silently vanished: 0/26 recovered in the reporting corpus.

Change

  • Accept bracket-delimited name parts, OR ALTER, and the PROC shorthand, mirroring what fb_proc_or_trigger already does for Firebird.
  • Hoist the pattern into a shared _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX used by both recovery sites (walk-time ERROR scan and whole-file has_error fallback). When the two drifted, a mixed-delimiter name (dbo.[usp_Mixed]) was captured differently by each, minting a phantom second node named after the schema that id-dedupe could not catch.
  • Mask SQL comments (offset-preserving) before the whole-file fallback scan, so commented-out DDL in a file with an unrelated parse error cannot fabricate routine nodes.

Recovered routines stay name-only nodes (no body reads_from edges), matching the existing PL/pgSQL recovery.

Verification

Five new tests (bracketed, OR ALTER, PROC shorthand, mixed-delimiter single-node, commented-DDL non-fabrication), each proven capable of failing via targeted mutations. SQL + extract suites pass; ruff clean. CodeRabbit: 2 major findings on iteration 1 (PROC shorthand, comment fabrication) — both fixed; iteration 2: 0 findings.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved SQL routine detection across procedure and function declaration formats.
    • Added support for quoted, bracketed, schema-qualified, shorthand, and CREATE OR ALTER declarations.
    • Prevented false routine detection in comments, string literals, malformed SQL, and embedded keywords.
    • Improved handling of nested and unclosed comments while preserving source positions.
    • Prevented duplicate routine results when multiple recovery paths identify the same declaration.

T-SQL's AS BEGIN...END body idiom never parses structurally (the grammar
has no create_procedure form for it), so recovery from ERROR nodes is the
only path such routines have into the graph — and the recovery pattern
matched only bare or double-quoted names and only OR REPLACE. In a T-SQL
codebase that brackets every identifier ([dbo].[usp_X], a common house
standard) and uses CREATE OR ALTER, every stored procedure silently
vanished: 0/26 recovered in the reporting corpus.

- accept bracket-delimited name parts and OR ALTER, mirroring what
  fb_proc_or_trigger already does for Firebird
- hoist the pattern into a shared _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX used by both
  recovery sites (walk-time ERROR scan and whole-file has_error
  fallback): when the two drifted, a mixed-delimiter name
  (dbo.[usp_Mixed]) was captured differently by each, minting a second
  phantom node named after the schema that id-dedupe could not catch

Recovered routines stay name-only nodes (no body reads_from edges),
matching the existing PL/pgSQL recovery. Each new guard was
mutation-tested: dropping the bracket alternative, dropping OR ALTER,
and re-introducing the pattern drift each fail exactly their test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SQL routine recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared routine matching and SQL masking
graphify/extractors/sql.py
Adds shared matching for function and procedure declarations. The scanner masks comments and strings while preserving offsets and valid delimited identifiers.
File-level recovery integration
graphify/extractors/sql.py
Removes per-error-node recovery. The parse-error fallback uses the shared matcher and mask, filters invalid matches, and deduplicates routine nodes.
Recovery and masking validation
tests/test_multilang.py
Adds syntax, masking, malformed-input, dynamic-SQL, delimiter, fuzz, and deduplication tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f3d02

The PR restores recovery of bracket-named and CREATE OR ALTER T-SQL routines and includes targeted verification for the changed behavior. A stale documentation reference remains as a minor follow-up, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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  participant FileLevelFallback
  participant _scan_sql
  participant _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX
  TreeSitter->>FileLevelFallback: parse errors
  FileLevelFallback->>_scan_sql: SQL source
  _scan_sql-->>FileLevelFallback: masked SQL
  FileLevelFallback->>_ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX: masked SQL
  _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX-->>FileLevelFallback: deduplicated routine matches
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[a]]b] names the identifier a]b; stopping at the first ] truncated the
recovered routine to [dbo].[a] — a phantom that could collide with a
genuinely named [dbo].[a]. The bracketed-part alternative now consumes
]] before treating a lone ] as the closing delimiter, in both name-part
positions of the shared _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX. Mutation-tested: reverting
the escape handling fails the new regression test.

Addresses the CodeRabbit P2 review finding on PR #2.

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Addressed in a888007: the bracketed-part alternative now consumes ]] escapes before treating a lone ] as the closing delimiter (both name-part positions of the shared _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX). Regression test added (test_sql_escaped_closing_bracket_in_routine_name_is_consumed) and mutation-tested — reverting the escape handling fails it.

Upstream batches changelog entries in maintainer release commits;
the entry's content moves to the PR description.
…ask the ERROR-node scan

The recovery mask read '-- note' inside a string literal as a line
comment (blanking to end-of-line) and a /* inside a string as a block
comment opener (blanking through the next real */), so real DDL sharing
the span could be hidden. The mask now preserves single-quoted strings
(with '' escapes), double-quoted identifiers, and bracket-delimited
identifiers (with ]] escapes) before blanking comments. Literal patterns
are deliberately single-line: the mask only runs on files that already
failed to parse, where an unclosed quote is likely, and a multi-line
match would let one unclosed delimiter swallow real DDL below it.

The walk-time ERROR-node scan now masks too: an ERROR blob whose byte
span covers commented-out DDL fabricated a routine node from it exactly
as the whole-file scan once did (reproduced: a -- CREATE PROC line
sandwiched between broken segments).

Both guards are mutation-tested: a literal-blind mask fails the new
unit pin; an unmasked ERROR scan fails the extended fabrication test.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Unresolved findings remain in comment/literal masking, escaped-identifier recovery, and optional dependency handling.

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Pull request overview

Extends SQL routine recovery for T-SQL syntax, bracketed identifiers, and comment-aware fallback scanning.

Changes:

  • Supports brackets, OR ALTER, and PROC.
  • Shares routine recovery logic and masks SQL comments.
  • Adds regression tests for recovery and masking.
File summaries
File Final comments
graphify/extractors/sql.py Moderate, 4 votes: unterminated block comments can fabricate routines. Moderate, 2 votes: fallback scanning can recover DDL inside string literals. Moderate, 2 votes: escaped double-quoted identifiers are truncated.
tests/test_multilang.py Critical, 4 votes: direct tree_sitter_sql import should use pytest.importorskip.
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  • The comment mask handles -- and /*...*/ but not MySQL's valid # line comments. The extractor explicitly accounts for MySQL routine syntax below (lines 504-506), so with an unrelated parse error # CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_Fake] ... remains visible and fabricates a node in the whole-file fallback. Add dialect-aware handling for # comments, or make the supported comment dialects explicit.
    r"|(--[^\n]*|/\*.*?\*/)",    # group 1: the comment span to blank
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… name escapes

Three review findings on the recovery scans, each mutation-tested:

- Single-quoted strings are now BLANKED by the mask instead of preserved:
  routine names never live in single quotes, and preserved dynamic SQL
  (EXEC(N'CREATE PROC [dbo].[Fake] ...')) fabricated a routine node
  whenever an unrelated parse error armed the whole-file scan.
  Double-quoted and bracket-delimited identifiers stay verbatim — they
  are exactly the delimited names the recovery regex must see.

- An UNCLOSED block comment now masks to end-of-file (matching SQL
  semantics). Requiring the closing */ left everything after an
  unterminated /* unmasked, and an unterminated comment is exactly the
  kind of error that arms recovery, so DDL inside it fabricated nodes.

- The double-quoted name atom in _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX and the mask now
  consume "" escapes, so CREATE PROCEDURE "dbo"."a""b" recovers its
  full name instead of truncating at the first quote — the "" twin of
  the ]] bracket escape. (For a statement the grammar CAN parse,
  tree-sitter-sql itself truncates object_reference at the escape; that
  upstream grammar defect is out of scope here.)

Also converts the ]] regression test's hard tree_sitter_sql import to
pytest.importorskip — on this branch the grammar is still an optional
extra, so a default install's suite must skip, not error.
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Copilot's three findings addressed in 3e44cbe — all real, and each is mutation-tested (reverting any one fix fails its test):

  • Dynamic SQL fabrication: single-quoted strings are now blanked by the mask instead of preserved — routine names never live in single quotes, and a preserved EXEC(N'CREATE PROC [dbo].[Fake] ...') fabricated a routine node whenever an unrelated parse error armed the whole-file scan. Double-quoted and bracket-delimited identifiers stay verbatim, because they are exactly the delimited names the recovery regex must see.
  • Unclosed block comment: the comment alternative now runs to end-of-file when no */ closes it (matching SQL semantics). Requiring the closer left everything after an unterminated /* unmasked — and an unterminated comment is exactly the kind of error that arms recovery.
  • "" escapes: the double-quoted name atom in _ROUTINE_RECOVERY_RX and the mask both consume "", so CREATE PROCEDURE "dbo"."a""b" recovers its full name — the "" twin of the ]] bracket escape. One scope note: for a statement the grammar can parse, tree-sitter-sql itself truncates object_reference at the escape (emitting "b" as a stray ERROR child); that upstream grammar defect can't be repaired in this extractor and the regression test documents it.
  • importorskip: the ]] regression test's hard import tree_sitter_sql is now pytest.importorskip — on this branch the grammar is still an optional extra, so a default install's suite must skip, not error.

Validated: full suite 6 failed, 4840 passed, 28 skipped (same 6 environmental Ollama failures as unmodified v8), ruff check clean.

… masked file

Independent review of 3e44cbe found the regex mask had hit its
complexity ceiling, with one regression and one surviving hole:

- REGRESSION: a /* inside a MULTI-LINE single-quoted string (ordinary
  T-SQL dynamic SQL) was not recognized as a literal by the single-line
  string atom, so the new unclosed-comment-to-EOF rule blanked the rest
  of the file — hiding every routine below. The mask is now a linear
  character scanner: the in-string /* is consumed as blanked,
  line-scoped string content and never opens a comment.
- Nested /* */ (SQL Server and PostgreSQL both nest) ended at the first
  */, so DDL commented out inside a nested comment fabricated a node.
  The scanner tracks nesting depth.

The scanner emits exactly one output character per input character, so
the offset/line invariant holds by construction.

The per-ERROR-node recovery scan is removed as unsound, not just
redundant: tree-sitter's lexer does not nest /* */ either, so an ERROR
fragment can begin MID-comment with no opener in sight, and no
fragment-level mask can know that. Any ERROR node makes root.has_error
true, so the whole-file masked scan already recovers everything the
per-node scan could, from the same shared regex, with id dedupe.

Also narrows the fabrication claim to what the mask models (MySQL
double-quoted strings and dollar-quoted bodies still rely on the
has_error gate alone) and updates the comments that overclaimed.
…est rationale

Verification review of 5c285bb surfaced one regression and two
overclaiming comments:

- A bracket/double-quote span that reaches its closer ACROSS a comment
  opener ('SELECT [Col FROM t -- CREATE PROC [dbo]' closes on [dbo]'s
  bracket) was preserved verbatim, shielding the commented-out DDL
  inside it from the mask — as was a truly unterminated opener, whose
  span ran to end-of-line. Both shapes are now abandoned: the delimiter
  is emitted alone and the line rescanned, so the comment fires. The
  trade — a genuine identifier containing '--' or '/*' ([a--b]) is now
  conservatively blanked past the opener, losing that routine's
  recovery, never fabricating one — is stated at the branch.
- The line-scoping rationale claimed single-quoted dynamic SQL was
  handled; only the same-line form is. Multi-line dynamic SQL
  (SET @SQL = N'<newline>CREATE PROC ...') fabricates from its
  continuation lines and is now documented as a known hole beside the
  unmodelled quoting dialects, with the reason it is not closed (a
  string heuristic risks swallowing real DDL in a recovery-only path).
- The nesting comment now names the dialects that do NOT nest /* */
  (MySQL, Oracle), where depth tracking over-blanks — losing, never
  fabricating, which is the accepted direction.
Fuzz verification of 1d56f17 found the abandon-and-rescan rule
re-paired single quotes: a quote inside an abandoned span became a live
opener, shifted pairing could swallow a genuine dynamic-SQL string's
closing quote, and EXEC(N'CREATE PROC ...') was exposed again — the
exact fabrication 3e44cbe closed, reachable through a one-line prefix
(SELECT [Col's -- x] ; EXEC(N'...')).

A distrusted span (unterminated, or closing across a -- or /*) is
irreducibly ambiguous — identifier data vs stray delimiter — and any
rule that picks one reading exposes text another reading blanks. So
blank the union of every reading: the rest of the span's line is
blanked outright, and a raw /* on it with no later */ on the same line
carries forward as nesting-aware comment state (some reading may have
left it open; a real */ below still closes it). Under-blanking is what
fabricates and is now structurally impossible for these spans;
over-blanking loses at most routines on a line that was already broken.

Adds a deterministic 20k-case fuzz pinning the structural invariants
(one char per char, newlines preserved, blank-or-verbatim, idempotence)
so the next masking defect class trips a property, not a hand-written
shape.
…ial fuzz

Differential fuzzing of c786d61 (1M cases) found the union stopped one
step short: where a carried block comment closed MID-line, the rest of
that line was emitted verbatim — but under the reading where the carry
never opened, that whole line can be a comment or a string
('-- note */ CREATE PROC ...' fabricated from a line that BEGINS with
--). The distrusted-span blank is now a loop (_blank_tail_and_carry):
blank to end-of-line, carry any raw unclosed /* to its nesting-aware
close, and where that close lands mid-line apply the same rule to the
remainder of that line, until a line ends carry-free. Content on a
carry-close line is conservatively lost; the next line resumes
normally.

Lands the defect class as a test, not just shapes: a frozen copy of
this revision's mask is embedded in the test file and a 20k-case
differential fuzz asserts the live mask never exposes a character the
frozen baseline blanks — the monotonicity property that found every
masking defect in this series (it fails on c786d61; the structural
fuzz alone did not).
Review sign-off notes: the subset claim is now scoped to exclude the
irreducible */* token-split divergence (a fifth absolute claim was not
going to fare better than the first four), and the differential-fuzz
test says how to refresh its frozen baseline on a deliberate exposure
change instead of being deleted.
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A review-driven hardening series landed on this branch (5c285bb..f0cc7cc), from iterating an adversarial review + differential fuzzing until PASS. Net effect on _mask_sql_comments and the recovery scans:

  • The mask is a linear character scanner now, not a regex — the regex could not express comment-opener parity inside strings, nested /* */, or line-scoped literal abandonment. Fixes found along the way: an in-string /* in multi-line dynamic SQL no longer blanks the rest of the file; nested block comments no longer fabricate; the scanner also eliminated a quadratic in the old bracket atom (~200s → 7ms on 100k [).
  • The per-ERROR-node recovery scan is removed as unsound — tree-sitter's lexer doesn't nest /* */, so an ERROR fragment can begin mid-comment with no opener in sight; no fragment-level mask can know that. Any ERROR node implies root.has_error, so the whole-file masked scan (same shared regex, id-deduped) subsumes it with full context. No recall loss was constructible.
  • Distrusted identifier spans blank the union of readings — a [/\" span that is unterminated or closes across a --//* is irreducibly ambiguous, and two rounds of fuzzing proved any single-reading rule exposes text another reading blanks (including a quote re-pairing channel that resurrected the EXEC(N'CREATE PROC ...') fabrication). The rest of the span's line is blanked outright, a raw unclosed /* carries forward nesting-aware, and a mid-line carry close gets the same treatment repeatedly.
  • The defect class is pinned as a property, not shapes: a frozen copy of the mask is embedded in the tests and a seeded differential fuzz asserts the live mask never exposes a character the baseline blanks — this catches every defect found in the series; hand-written shapes caught none of them first. A structural fuzz (offset/newline/idempotence invariants) rides alongside.
  • Known, documented limitations (deliberate trades): multi-line single-quoted dynamic SQL can fabricate from continuation lines; MySQL double-quoted strings and dollar-quoted bodies are unmodelled; MySQL/Oracle non-nesting comments over-blank (lose, never fabricate); the */* token-split divergence one line beyond a carry close.

Validation: full suite 6 failed, 4842 passed, 28 skipped (same 6 environmental Ollama failures as unmodified v8), ruff check clean, every fix mutation-tested (reverting it fails a named test), final adversarial review verdict PASS with 1M-case differential fuzz showing zero exposures vs the prior revision.

The Graphify review bot flagged (and a repro confirmed) that DDL
keywords occurring INSIDE a preserved delimited identifier fabricate a
routine: 'SELECT 1 AS [CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.usp_Phantom pending]' in a
file with an unrelated parse error minted dbo.usp_Phantom(). The mask
must preserve delimited identifiers verbatim — they carry the
recoverable names — but the recovery regex was not span-aware, so it
matched keywords inside them.

The scanner (_scan_sql) now also returns the [start, end) of every
preserved identifier span, and the whole-file recovery scan skips any
match whose CREATE keyword starts inside one: a genuine statement's
NAME may be a delimited identifier; its CREATE never is.
_mask_sql_comments stays as the masked-text-only wrapper, so the
frozen-baseline and structural fuzz tests apply unchanged (blanking
behavior is untouched). Mutation-tested: removing the skip fails the
new regression test.
The Graphify review bot flagged (and a repro confirmed) that the
recovery regex matched CREATE inside a bare identifier: 'SELECT
AUTOCREATE PROCEDURE x FROM t;' in an error-bearing file minted a
phantom routine x(). Delimited identifiers are span-skipped at the
scan site, but a bare word has no span, so the regex itself must
refuse — \bCREATE closes it. Mutation-tested: removing the boundary
fails the new regression test.

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542-551: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Update the docstring: the walk-time ERROR scan no longer exists.

This PR removes recovery scanning from individual tree-sitter ERROR nodes (graphify/extractors/sql.py lines 489-498). Only the whole-file has_error fallback remains. The docstring describes two recovery sites that must agree, which no longer matches the implementation. The test itself is still valid; it pins the captured name for a mixed-delimiter routine.

The same stale wording appears at line 749 in _frozen_mask_2026_08_24 ("Used by both routine-recovery scans").

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In `@tests/test_multilang.py` around lines 542 - 551, Update the docstrings for
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