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Hi, I'm human not AI. I encountered the issue below while porting a message handling service from python to rust as an experiment. I can explain more if that can help. The report below is written by Claude AI, and I believe it's accurate. -Joel

What

Four small, additive items on Query, for statements whose parameter count is only known at runtime:

Query::placeholders(first, count) -> String   // "@P1, @P2, @P3"
Query::bind_iter(iter)                        // binds each item, in order
Query::param_count() -> usize                 // how many are bound
Query::MAX_PARAMETERS: usize = 2100           // the server's limit

Why

SQL Server has no array parameter, so an IN list must name one placeholder per value. Binding a comma-separated string to IN (@P1) matches nothing rather than failing, which makes it a quiet bug rather than a loud one — so every caller ends up writing the same format loop. That is #157, open since 2021.

Together the pair reads:

let ids = vec![1i32, 2, 3];

let sql = format!(
    "SELECT name FROM users WHERE id IN ({})",
    Query::placeholders(1, ids.len()),
);

let mut query = Query::new(sql);
query.bind_iter(ids);

first is 1-based to match the @P1 numbering Query::new already documents, and takes an offset so a list can follow parameters that are already bound.

A count of zero yields an empty string. IN () is a syntax error, so a caller with nothing to match on should skip the query rather than build one — that is documented and tested rather than left to be discovered.

Why MAX_PARAMETERS belongs with them

The 2100 limit is reached by exactly these runtime-sized statements: an IN list or a multi-row INSERT hits it by data volume, on a batch that may be larger than any that was tested, and the server reports it only after the whole batch has been sent. Having the constant next to the helpers that generate the parameters is what lets a caller chunk before that happens:

let rows_per_statement = Query::MAX_PARAMETERS / 3; // a three-column INSERT

I have left the chunking itself to the caller — where to split a batch is an application decision, and the transaction boundary around the chunks certainly is.

Notes

  • No public API changes. Nothing renamed, nothing removed, nothing's signature altered.
  • 8 unit tests and 4 doc tests, none of which need a running server.
  • Five doc tests in the suite fail on a pristine checkout because they connect to SQL Server; this branch does not change that. Verified by running cargo test --doc query on main and on this branch: same five, plus four new passing ones here.
  • No CHANGELOG entry — entries there carry PR numbers and appear under released versions, so it looked like a release-time step. Happy to add one if you would prefer it in the PR.

SQL Server has no array parameter, so an IN list must name one placeholder
per value. Binding a comma-separated string to IN (@p1) matches nothing
rather than failing, so every caller ends up writing the same format loop
(prisma#157).

Adds four small, additive items to Query:

  Query::placeholders(first, count) -> String   builds "@p1, @p2, @p3"
  Query::bind_iter(iter)                        binds each item in order
  Query::param_count() -> usize                 how many are bound
  Query::MAX_PARAMETERS: usize = 2100           the server's limit

MAX_PARAMETERS matters most for exactly these runtime-sized statements: an
IN list or a multi-row INSERT reaches the limit by data volume, on a batch
that may be larger than any that was tested, and the server reports it only
after the whole batch has been sent.

No public API changes; nothing is renamed or removed. Eight unit tests and
four doc tests, none of which need a server.
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  • New Features

    • Added support for binding multiple query parameters from an iterator.
    • Added parameter-count inspection for queries.
    • Added SQL Server’s 2,100-parameter limit constant.
    • Added placeholder-list generation with configurable starting positions and counts.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new query parameter and placeholder utilities.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for parameter numbering, offsets, empty lists, binding counts, generated placeholders, and parameter limits.

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Query now supports binding parameters from iterators and reporting the current parameter count. It defines SQL Server’s 2100-parameter limit and provides placeholder-list generation with configurable starting indexes. Unit tests cover numbering, offsets, empty inputs, iterator binding, parameter-count consistency, and the parameter limit.

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In `@src/query.rs`:
- Around line 135-145: Update Query::placeholders to reject a zero first index
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Comment on lines +135 to +145
pub fn placeholders(first: usize, count: usize) -> String {
use std::fmt::Write;

let mut out = String::with_capacity(count * 6);

for index in 0..count {
if index > 0 {
out.push_str(", ");
}
// Writing into a String cannot fail.
let _ = write!(out, "@P{}", first + index);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject invalid placeholder indexes.

Line 145 produces @P0 when first is zero. The client transport only binds names starting at @P1, so Query::placeholders(0, 1) creates SQL with no matching bound parameter. Also reject first + count - 1 overflow before the loop. Add tests for zero first and an overflowing range.

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 pub fn placeholders(first: usize, count: usize) -> String {
     use std::fmt::Write;

+    if count == 0 {
+        return String::new();
+    }
+    assert!(first > 0, "`first` must be at least 1");
+    first
+        .checked_add(count - 1)
+        .expect("placeholder index overflows usize");
+
     let mut out = String::with_capacity(count * 6);
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pub fn placeholders(first: usize, count: usize) -> String {
use std::fmt::Write;
let mut out = String::with_capacity(count * 6);
for index in 0..count {
if index > 0 {
out.push_str(", ");
}
// Writing into a String cannot fail.
let _ = write!(out, "@P{}", first + index);
pub fn placeholders(first: usize, count: usize) -> String {
use std::fmt::Write;
if count == 0 {
return String::new();
}
assert!(first > 0, "`first` must be at least 1");
first
.checked_add(count - 1)
.expect("placeholder index overflows usize");
let mut out = String::with_capacity(count * 6);
for index in 0..count {
if index > 0 {
out.push_str(", ");
}
// Writing into a String cannot fail.
let _ = write!(out, "@P{}", first + index);
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In `@src/query.rs` around lines 135 - 145, Update Query::placeholders to reject a
zero first index and any range whose final placeholder index overflows before
generating output; preserve one-based `@P` naming for valid ranges. Add tests
covering first == 0 and an overflowing first + count - 1 range.

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Verified against a real SQL Server rather than only offline.

Brought one up from this repo's own docker/ context (Azure SQL Edge, since the full SQL Server images are x86_64 only and this is arm64), and ran the suite on main and on this branch:

main this branch
cargo test --tests 382 passed, 0 failed 390 passed, 0 failed

The difference is exactly the 8 unit tests added here. No existing test changes behaviour.

Two things I hit that are worth reporting separately from this PR:

  1. docker/certs/server.crt expired on 2024-12-20. Any image built from docker/ today presents an expired certificate, so the handshake fails and the whole server-dependent suite reports Tls("connection closed via error") — which reads like a client bug rather than a stale fixture. Regenerating with your own certs/generate-signed-cert.sh fixes it; the customCA is still valid until 2027-11-14, so only the leaf needs renewing.

  2. With the certificate renewed, the suite passes under --features rustls but still fails under the default native-tls on macOS. I have not chased that one down and it is out of scope here.

Happy to open a separate PR for the certificate renewal plus a small docker/test-server.sh that brings a server up under podman or docker — it is ready, just say the word and I will file it.

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