Add transactions over Effect's SqlClient (@maple-dev/effect-orm/database)

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What

A new opt-in subpath, @maple-dev/effect-orm/database, with a Database built from the Effect SqlClient you already use. The package still opens no connections.

• run(compiled) executes a CompiledQuery and decodes its rows. query and execute run raw statements with bound parameters.
• transaction(body, options?) is Effect's own withTransaction: the connection is pinned through fiber context and nested calls become savepoints. On top of it:
  • Settings: isolationLevel, accessMode, deferrable, applied as one SET TRANSACTION statement. A nested transaction that passes settings or retry is rejected rather than silently ignored, which is what Drizzle does.
  • Typed commit errors: Effect 4.0.0 turns a failed COMMIT or ROLLBACK into a defect, and a failed ROLLBACK also drops the body's own error. These come back as TransactionCommitFailed and TransactionRollbackFailed.
  • Contention retry: retryContention, and retry: "contention" as shorthand. Both re-run the whole transaction on SQLSTATE 40001 or 40P01, and refuse inside an open transaction.
  • Db.Transaction: a service in R for helpers that must be atomic. transaction removes it, so calling such a helper outside a transaction is a compile error. This is the same pattern as Effect's own Effect.tx. transaction works data-first, piped, and as an Effect.fn trailing argument.
  • Closed-transaction guard: a statement from a fiber that outlives its transaction dies with TransactionClosed instead of running on a connection already back in the pool.
• Dialect.transactions (optional) says what a dialect supports. Postgres supports transactions fully. ClickHouse declares none, so transaction fails with TransactionUnsupported before sending anything.
• CompiledQuery.dialect records the dialect a query was compiled for, so run refuses a query compiled for another database. The usual mistake is using the root (ClickHouse) compile on Postgres.

Why

This is the first step in moving Maple's Postgres code off Drizzle, whose db.transaction takes an Effect. The design, the survey of Maple's 33 transactions, and the comparison with Effect's and Drizzle's implementations are in design/transactions.md. User docs are in docs/database.md.

Reviewer notes

• ClickHouse is refused on purpose. I checked this against live 26.8 servers. A default server rejects BEGIN TRANSACTION. Experimental transactions are MergeTree-only and need an HTTP session. A BEGIN without a session is accepted and forgotten, so later writes land immediately. Readers outside a transaction can see uncommitted rows. Effect's ClickHouse withTransaction fails at BEGIN today: through the query path with a syntax error (it appends FORMAT JSON), and through asCommand with NOT_IMPLEMENTED. tests/database.clickhouse.test.ts pins both.
• Two programming bugs are defects, not typed errors: a dialect mismatch and TransactionClosed. Typed, they would sit in the error channel of every run. This follows the rule compile already uses.
• PGlite moves from 0.3.15 to 0.5.8 to match @effect/sql-pglite. 0.5 takes the session time zone from the host, which broke two existing tests, so every test database is pinned to UTC.
• Small refactor: src/migrate/driver.ts now imports the shared firstLine helper instead of keeping its own copy.
• Remaining from phase 2, not in this PR: a suite against a real Postgres server (isolation between connections and real serialization failures; PGlite has one connection, so contention is simulated with RAISE ... USING ERRCODE), and an upstream Effect issue about the orDie'd COMMIT and ROLLBACK.
• Writes: effect-orm still compiles SELECTs only. Writes go through execute / query for now.

Testing

• bun run build, bun run typecheck, bun run test (471 passed; includes the docs example in docs/database.md, executed on PGlite), and bun scripts/check-package.ts.
• 19 runtime tests on @effect/sql-pglite in src/database/database.test.ts. Removing each key behaviour fails its test.
• Type tests in src/database/database.test-d.ts.
• Live ClickHouse suite (tests/) passed against 26.2.19.43 and 26.8.2.7.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an opt-in database API for running compiled queries, parameterized SQL statements, and transactions through an existing SQL client.
  • Added transaction settings, nested savepoints, and automatic retries for serialization failures and deadlocks where supported.
  • Added PostgreSQL transaction support; ClickHouse reports transactions as unsupported.
• Documentation
  • Added guides and API reference covering database operations, transactions, and error handling.

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Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in database API over Effect’s SqlClient. The API runs compiled queries and parameterized statements, and supports dialect-configured transactions, nested savepoints, typed transaction errors, and contention retries. The package adds a database entry point, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Database API and transaction support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compiled-query metadata and dialect transaction capabilities src/ch/compile.ts, src/ch/dialect.ts, src/ch/index.ts, src/pg/dialect.ts, docs/reference.md, CHANGELOG.md	Compiled queries can include their dialect name. Dialects can declare transaction settings and capabilities. Postgres declares transaction support; ClickHouse uses the unsupported default.
Database operations and transaction lifecycle src/database/*, src/database.ts, docs/database.md, docs/running-queries.md, docs/reference.md, docs/README.md, design/transactions.md, CHANGELOG.md	Adds query and statement operations over a supplied SqlClient, transaction handling, contention retries, and typed errors. Tests cover query execution, transaction outcomes, nesting, retries, and closed transaction contexts.
Package integration and cross-client validation package.json, tsdown.config.ts, tests/database.clickhouse.test.ts, tests/package-consumer.mts, src/migrate/driver.ts, src/pg/postgres.test.ts, tests/*postgres.test.ts, scripts/check-doc-examples.mjs	Adds the ./database package entry and build entry. Adds package-consumer and ClickHouse tests, sets PGlite test sessions to UTC, and reuses the SQL error message helper in the migration driver.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Application
  participant Database
  participant SqlClient
  Application->>Database: transaction with compiled query
  Database->>SqlClient: withTransaction
  Database->>SqlClient: execute compiled SQL
  SqlClient-->>Database: query rows
  Database-->>Application: decoded rows

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bf338

The new API is broadly mergeable, but document the handwritten-query dialect option and confirm how transaction-start failures are reported before relying on that error contract.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bf338

Database permissions remain those of the caller-supplied client. However, a surviving background task can re-enter the transaction wrapper without checking whether its inherited transaction has closed. This leaves connection-lifetime protection uncertain; an attacker-accessible exploit was not established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: A detached fiber retaining an ended transaction context can invoke transaction again. The wrapper derives nesting from the inherited client transaction service, creates a new open state, and replaces the closed state without checking it. This bypasses the adapter's lifecycle guard on the new transaction path and could allow work to cross connection-ownership lifetimes. The downstream connection-reuse outcome is unverified. Joined fibers avoid this path, and the existing late-statement test covers direct execution rather than transaction re-entry.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A holder of Database can issue raw SQL with the authority of its supplied client. Potential exposure is the data and operations permitted to that database role, not a demonstrated expansion to additional credentials, services, or environments. Production consumer and tenant boundaries were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The unresolved ownership path is a surviving fiber inheriting transaction context, invoking transaction after closure, and receiving a fresh open guard state before the underlying transaction operation. Whether this reaches a released connection or another operation's connection depends on upstream behavior; no attacker-controlled entrypoint or cross-tenant effect was verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The adapter forwards raw SQL and bound parameters without tenant or identity authorization. The compiled dialect check is a compatibility control, not an authorization boundary; absent dialect metadata skips it. No evidence establishes that this PR newly grants untrusted callers access.
• observed — The lifecycle guard matches client identity and rejects direct statements carrying a closed state. Settings and retry options are rejected for nested transactions, preventing silent changes to outer transaction policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The wrapper records the body exit and translates SQL defects at transaction completion while preserving body defects and interruption semantics. Tests demonstrate interruption rollback and a deferred-constraint commit failure, but these do not establish rollback-failure recovery or pooled-connection isolation under concurrent callers.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bind transaction initiation and statement dispatch to a live ownership token that cannot be replaced to revive an ended context. Validate detached-fiber re-entry and delayed dispatch against the exact client implementation and a pooled PostgreSQL connection.

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- Around line 98-99: Update the Compilation table’s rawCompiledQuery argument
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