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Support UUID, IPV4, BINARY, CHAR, DATE, LONG256, and GEOHASH values in Sender.row(), Buffer.row(), and PooledSender.row(). Reject these types on ILP transports and document server requirements and NULL sentinels.

The DataFrame path supports explicit and round-tripped claims for the corresponding column types, including GEOHASH precisions carried by signed integer columns. This adds schema_overrides to Sender.dataframe(), QuestDB.dataframe(), and PooledSender.dataframe().

The public API also exports the new Char, DateMillis, Geohash, and Long256 value classes through questdb.__all__.

Fixes #138.

Native-client dependencies

  • c-questdb-client #186 moved raw UUID boundaries to canonical RFC 4122 byte order and stopped inferring UUID/LONG256 from fixed-size binary width.
  • c-questdb-client #195 is this PR's support PR. It supplies the GEOHASH encoding changes and the native Arrow review fixes: guarded slice/Struct handling, bounded metadata, exact Arrow 59 arity/buffer/conversion modeling, dependency enforcement, differential regressions, and the raw-read audit.

The development gitlink pins #195's branch fix/geohash-value-range at exact commit ffe6f93b4495e7cdf49f63f1826e592a958959fe. This is reproducible but not yet a landing pin. This PR must not merge until #195 is merged into c-questdb-client/main, after which this gitlink must be refreshed to the resulting mainline commit and the final matrix rerun.

User-facing documentation for the broader row-type feature is in documentation#516; its Python edits should land with this PR.

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The client adds QWP row support for UUID, IPv4, binary, CHAR, DATE, LONG256, and GEOHASH. It adds public wrappers, native encoders, protocol validation, canonical UUID handling, schema overrides, bytes-like DataFrame support, documentation, and tests.

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QWP row type support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public QWP value contracts
src/questdb/_client.pyx, src/questdb/_client.pyi, src/questdb/__init__.py, src/questdb/ingress.py, src/questdb/line_sender.pxd, docs/api.rst, CHANGELOG.rst, c-questdb-client
Adds four public wrappers, expanded row types and exports, native writer declarations, and QWP restrictions.
QWP row encoding and protocol checks
src/questdb/_client.pyx, src/questdb/line_sender.pxd
Dispatches new values to native encoders and validates protocols, layouts, representations, and transaction restrictions.
DataFrame schema, UUID, and binary handling
src/questdb/_client.pyx, src/questdb/dataframe.pxi, src/questdb/egress.pxi
Uses canonical UUID bytes, adds UUID and LONG256 overrides, distinguishes opaque binary, accepts bytes-like cells, rejects unsupported object columns, and releases borrowed buffers.
Validation and integration coverage
test/test.py, test/test_dataframe.py, test/test_dataframe_leaks.py, test/test_client_capsule_path.py, test/system_test.py
Tests wrapper validation, wire encodings, protocol rejection, UUID byte order, schema overrides, binary cleanup, null handling, and database round trips.

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

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DataFrame
  participant SchemaPlanner
  participant UUIDOrBinaryEncoder
  participant QuestDBServer
  DataFrame->>SchemaPlanner: provide column and schema override
  SchemaPlanner->>UUIDOrBinaryEncoder: select UUID, LONG256, or BINARY encoding
  UUIDOrBinaryEncoder->>QuestDBServer: send encoded column data
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8b4dc

This PR adds QWP-only row-ingestion types, but some affected tests are not gated to the required QuestDB 10 environment and may fail against the default QuestDB 9.4.3 fixture; related validation and compatibility documentation also remain incomplete, so the changes are not merge-ready until these bounded issues are addressed or explicitly accepted.

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jerrinot and others added 2 commits August 13, 2026 11:01
Support UUID, IPV4, BINARY, CHAR, DATE, LONG256, and GEOHASH values in Sender.row(), Buffer.row(), and PooledSender.row().
Reject these types on ILP transports and document server requirements and NULL sentinels.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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test/test_dataframe.py (1)

176-183: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add subTest so a failing case is identifiable.

The loop now covers five cases. Without subTest, the first failure stops the loop and the report does not name the value type. The neighboring tests in this module use subTest for the same pattern.

♻️ Proposed fix
             for descr, value in cases:
-                df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [value]})
-                with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [value]})
+                with self.subTest(value=type(value).__name__), \
+                        self.assertRaisesRegex(
                         qi.QuestDBError,
                         f'{descr} objects, which are only supported on the '
                         'columnar QuestDB.dataframe'):
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In `@test/test_dataframe.py` around lines 176 - 183, Wrap each iteration of the
cases loop in the relevant test method with subTest, using the case description
as its identifying context so failures report the specific value type while
preserving the existing assertions and iteration behavior.
test/test.py (5)

2543-2551: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Make the offset-count expectation explicit.

expected_offsets has len(values[1:]) + 1 == 5 entries, and len(values) is also 5. The two counts match by coincidence, so a future change to values can make the assertion pass or fail for the wrong reason. Assert the offset count against the non-null row count directly.

♻️ Proposed fix
         encoded_values = [bytes(value) for value in values[1:]]
         expected_offsets = [0]
         for value in encoded_values:
             expected_offsets.append(expected_offsets[-1] + len(value))
+        self.assertEqual(len(expected_offsets), len(encoded_values) + 1)
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In `@test/test.py` around lines 2543 - 2551, Update the offset validation in the
test to assert the expected offset count directly against the non-null row
count, len(values[1:]), rather than relying on len(values) matching by
coincidence. Keep the existing offset contents and payload parsing checks
unchanged.

2416-2416: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Silence the ambiguous-character lint on this line.

Ruff reports RUF001 for ſ and K here. Both characters are intentional: they casefold to valid base32 characters, so they pin the parser's rejection. Add a targeted suppression so the lint stays clean.

♻️ Proposed fix
-        for value in ('', 'x' * 13, 'a', 'i', 'l', 'o', 'ß', 'ſ', 'K'):
+        for value in ('', 'x' * 13, 'a', 'i', 'l', 'o', 'ß', 'ſ', 'K'):  # noqa: RUF001
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In `@test/test.py` at line 2416, Add a targeted Ruff RUF001 suppression to the
test loop containing the intentional ambiguous characters, covering only that
line. Preserve the existing test values and avoid broad file-level or
configuration-wide lint suppression.

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2586-2588: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use wait_binary_frames_settled() for the zero-frame assertion.

snapshot() reads counters that the server handler thread increments asynchronously. If a rejected dataframe did publish a frame, the count can still read 0 at this point and the test passes for the wrong reason. QwpAckServer.wait_binary_frames_settled() exists for this case.

♻️ Proposed fix
-            stats = server.snapshot()
+            frames = server.wait_binary_frames_settled()
+            stats = server.snapshot()
 
-        self.assertEqual(stats['binary_frames'], 0)
+        self.assertEqual(frames, 0)
         self.assertEqual(stats['errors'], [])
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In `@test/test.py` around lines 2586 - 2588, Replace the direct binary_frames
assertion after server.snapshot() with
QwpAckServer.wait_binary_frames_settled(), then assert that the settled
binary-frame count is zero. Preserve the test’s existing rejection scenario and
zero-frame expectation.

2808-2808: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Compare DATE round trip in integer milliseconds.

first['dt'].timestamp() returns a float. Equality against -0.001 depends on binary rounding of the division inside timestamp(). Compare integer milliseconds to remove the float dependency.

♻️ Proposed fix
-            self.assertEqual(first['dt'].timestamp(), -0.001)
+            self.assertEqual(round(first['dt'].timestamp() * 1000), -1)
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relevant test to compare the timestamp converted to integer milliseconds against
the expected integer value, avoiding direct float equality with -0.001.

2520-2533: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the QWP frame prefix walk into a shared helper.

Lines 2523-2531 repeat the delta-dictionary and table-name walk already implemented in _first_qwp_table_row_count at Lines 91-104. The duplicate copy also drops the truncation checks, so a malformed frame produces an obscure IndexError instead of a clear assertion. Extract one helper that returns the position after the table name and reuse it in both places.

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In `@test/test.py` around lines 2520 - 2533, Extract the shared QWP prefix parsing
from the current test block and _first_qwp_table_row_count into one helper that
validates truncation while walking delta entries and the table name, then
returns the position after the table name. Replace both duplicated walks with
this helper and preserve the existing row and column count assertions.
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Inline comments:
In `@test/test.py`:
- Around line 2439-2446: Update the test around qi._NAIVE_DATETIME_WARNED to
save its original value before clearing it, then restore that value after the
warning assertion completes, including when the assertion fails. Keep the
existing warning-count and datetime conversion assertions unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@test/test_dataframe.py`:
- Around line 176-183: Wrap each iteration of the cases loop in the relevant
test method with subTest, using the case description as its identifying context
so failures report the specific value type while preserving the existing
assertions and iteration behavior.

In `@test/test.py`:
- Around line 2543-2551: Update the offset validation in the test to assert the
expected offset count directly against the non-null row count, len(values[1:]),
rather than relying on len(values) matching by coincidence. Keep the existing
offset contents and payload parsing checks unchanged.
- Line 2416: Add a targeted Ruff RUF001 suppression to the test loop containing
the intentional ambiguous characters, covering only that line. Preserve the
existing test values and avoid broad file-level or configuration-wide lint
suppression.
- Around line 2586-2588: Replace the direct binary_frames assertion after
server.snapshot() with QwpAckServer.wait_binary_frames_settled(), then assert
that the settled binary-frame count is zero. Preserve the test’s existing
rejection scenario and zero-frame expectation.
- Line 2808: Update the DATE round-trip assertion in the relevant test to
compare the timestamp converted to integer milliseconds against the expected
integer value, avoiding direct float equality with -0.001.
- Around line 2520-2533: Extract the shared QWP prefix parsing from the current
test block and _first_qwp_table_row_count into one helper that validates
truncation while walking delta entries and the table name, then returns the
position after the table name. Replace both duplicated walks with this helper
and preserve the existing row and column count assertions.
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270-272: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Chain the assertion failure to exc explicitly.

When the diagnostic text differs, raise the AssertionError with from exc. This preserves the original QuestDBError as the direct cause.

Proposed fix
-                            raise AssertionError(
-                                f'unexpected BINARY validation error: {exc}')
+                            raise AssertionError(
+                                f'unexpected BINARY validation error: {exc}') from exc
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PR #140 Review — feat: add QWP-only column types to row ingestion

Reviewed at level 3 (full pass: 10 dimensions across 3 parallel adversarial agents + per-finding source verification). The high-risk surface here — a c-questdb-client submodule bump, 7 new C-ABI .pxd bindings, manual buffer-protocol/malloc code, and the DataFrame path — is exactly what level 3 exists for.

Critical

None. The .pxd↔header agreement is exact, the submodule bump is purely additive (7 new functions + whitespace/comment reflow; no enum reorder, no struct layout change, no existing-signature change), the encoders are memory-safe on every path, and row-level ILP rejection is atomic via _row's marker/rewind.

Moderate

None.

Minor

1. Stale :param columns: prose in Buffer.row. _client.pyx:1824-1825 (mirrored in _client.pyi:636-637) still reads "a dictionary of column names to bool, int, float, str, TimestampMicros or datetime values" — it omits np.ndarray, Decimal, and all seven new QWP types. The adjacent list-table was updated in this PR; this paragraph was not. (The ndarray/Decimal omission predates this PR, but this is the natural place to fix it.)

2. Cheap coverage gaps (non-blocking). All verified working, just untested in the default suite: DateMillis.now() (no test at all); DateMillis out-of-range ValueError branch (_client.pyx:884); Geohash precision-mismatch-within-column (only TEST_QUESTDB_INTEGRATION-gated, but reproducible with just Buffer._new_qwp() + two rows — make it a unit test); NULL-sentinel acceptance at the wire level (DATE INT64_MIN, null-UUID, LONG256 all-limbs 0x8000…) is integration-gated only; DataFrame-path IPv6 rejection (row path is covered, DataFrame path isn't).

3. Row-path _column_binary error ergonomics. Unlike the DataFrame builder, it doesn't translate a PyObject_GetBuffer BufferError/ValueError into a friendly message, and no leak test covers its PyBuffer_Release (the DataFrame path has one). The release is in a finally, so leak risk is low — this is polish, not a defect.

Downgraded (false positives)

The three agents converged on zero memory/correctness/refcount/ABI bugs, so there were no agent false positives to dismiss. Candidate issues I chased down and cleared myself:

  • Geohash.from_string('K') test looks wrong → dismissed: the char is U+212A KELVIN SIGN, not ASCII K; the char.isascii() guard before .lower() correctly rejects it (and ß/ſ). Good defensive design.
  • IPv4Interface silently accepted → dismissed: type(value) is IPv4Address exact-type check excludes the subclass in the row dispatch, the sniff, and the ipv4 builder, consistently.
  • Long256 fixed-32-byte C read (no length arg) could over-read → dismissed: _bytes = value.to_bytes(32,'little') after the < 2**256 guard is always exactly 32 bytes.
  • Memoryview Py_buffer leak on the C-error path → dismissed: release_view is set True only after a successful GetBuffer, and the release sits in finally.
  • Multi-column ILP rejection non-atomic → dismissed: _row wraps the column loop in try/except with _set_marker/_rewind_to_marker.

Summary

Approve. This is a clean, well-tested, memory-safe addition; the binding work is correct and the wire-format tests assert real serialized bytes (not tautologies). Fix the stale docstring (#1) while you're in there.

Findings tally: 6 draft findings verified, 0 false positives from agents (5 additional candidates I raised and self-dismissed into Downgraded). Split: effectively all findings are in-diff (implementation/test/doc); the cross-context agent ran a repo-wide grep and explicitly cleared every out-of-diff callsite as SAFE — genuinely low blast radius, since each new encoder has a single caller and the changed builders each have one dispatch callsite, not a cross-context underrun.

mtopolnik and others added 2 commits August 18, 2026 14:32
c-questdb-client PR #186 moved every raw-bytes UUID boundary to the
canonical RFC 4122 big-endian order, leaving the byte-swap into QWP wire
order (lo half LE, then hi half LE) to the native client. The submodule
pointer already moved in the previous commit, so three paths in this
repo were producing or reading reversed UUIDs: object-dtype DataFrame
columns, `uuid.UUID` query binds, and the pyarrow-free `to_pandas`
decoder. Each now passes or reads `UUID.bytes` directly.

`Buffer.row()` is unaffected: `line_sender_buffer_column_uuid` still
takes the two wire-order halves, and the row and DataFrame paths still
put identical bytes on the wire.

The same PR stopped inferring a column type from a binary column's
width. A `FixedSizeBinary(16)` is a UUID only when the schema claims it
so — through the `arrow.uuid` extension name or `questdb.column_type`
field metadata — and everything else is opaque bytes bound for a BINARY
column. The pandas planner now agrees: it keeps the extension name when
it unwraps the storage type, and routes unclaimed fixed-size columns to
the Arrow passthrough. Its LONG256 target goes away entirely, because
the only claim for one is field metadata that pyarrow drops when it
exports a single column, so no input could ever have selected it.

Claiming a type explicitly is what `schema_overrides` is for, and it
gains `'uuid'` and `'long256'` kinds. They accept variable-length binary
columns as well as fixed-size ones, which is the only way a polars frame
can reach either type, since polars has no fixed-size binary dtype.

Test changes follow the same split. The system tests drop their
UUID-to-wire helper and compare against `UUID.bytes`; the fixed-size
round-trips now claim their type; and the old "other widths are
rejected" test becomes "other widths land as BINARY". New coverage pins
the wire-order swap, verbatim LONG256 forwarding, a wrong-width claim
failing, an unclaimed 16-byte column going out as BINARY, a polars
UUID claim, and the `to_pandas` UUID decoder, which had none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The test lets the server auto-create the table, which pins the wire type
the client actually sent, but auto-create also names the designated
column `timestamp` rather than `ts`. Reading it back with `ORDER BY ts`
failed with "Invalid column: ts", so the whole integration suite went red
on every platform.

Order by `timestamp` instead, following the uint-widening tests on the
same page. Ordering by `v` would be the other convention here, but BINARY
is not an orderable type. Also assert the egress column type, so the test
fails loudly if the column ever stops being BINARY rather than only when
the bytes differ.

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test/system_test.py (3)

5401-5405: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the LONG256 NULL-sentinel exception.

The docstring says that bytes are forwarded verbatim. The test below treats the all-zero value as the LONG256 NULL sentinel and permits it to return as None. State that only non-sentinel values are byte-preserving.

Proposed wording
-        LONG256 → egress emits FSB(32). Bytes are forwarded
-        verbatim; the 32-byte width alone claims nothing, so without
+        LONG256 → egress emits FSB(32). Non-sentinel bytes are forwarded
+        verbatim; the 32-byte width alone claims nothing, so without
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In `@test/system_test.py` around lines 5401 - 5405, Update the test docstring near
the LONG256 schema override case to clarify that non-sentinel byte values are
forwarded verbatim, while the all-zero LONG256 NULL sentinel may be returned as
None.

4745-4760: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the FSB16 test verify the behavior in its name.

The test name says that unclaimed FSB16 values land as BINARY. The test pre-creates a UUID column and only checks for a generic exception. This proves rejection into UUID, not BINARY dispatch.

Rename the test to describe rejection, or auto-create the table and assert the BINARY type and original bytes.

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In `@test/system_test.py` around lines 4745 - 4760, Update
test_unclaimed_fsb16_lands_as_binary so its assertions match the intended
behavior: either rename it to describe rejection into a UUID column, or have it
auto-create the table and assert that the unclaimed fixed-size binary values are
stored as BINARY with the original bytes preserved.

5462-5465: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the BadDataFrame error code.

Capture the exception and assert cm.exception.code is qi.QuestDBErrorCode.BadDataFrame; catching any qi.QuestDBError can hide unrelated failures.

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In `@test/system_test.py` around lines 5462 - 5465, Update the row-ILP FSB(32)
rejection test to capture the raised exception and assert that its code is
qi.QuestDBErrorCode.BadDataFrame, rather than only asserting that a generic
qi.QuestDBError is raised.
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In `@test/system_test.py`:
- Around line 5401-5405: Update the test docstring near the LONG256 schema
override case to clarify that non-sentinel byte values are forwarded verbatim,
while the all-zero LONG256 NULL sentinel may be returned as None.
- Around line 4745-4760: Update test_unclaimed_fsb16_lands_as_binary so its
assertions match the intended behavior: either rename it to describe rejection
into a UUID column, or have it auto-create the table and assert that the
unclaimed fixed-size binary values are stored as BINARY with the original bytes
preserved.
- Around line 5462-5465: Update the row-ILP FSB(32) rejection test to capture
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Review: PR #140 — QWP-only column types for row ingestion (level 3)

This review uses ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Update. Problems 1 to 10 are corrected. The two Critical problems and
the Critical test-coverage problem are closed. Each problem below has a
Fixed in line with its commit. Problem 11, the Minor list and the
other test-coverage items stay open.

Problem Commit
1. polars Object columns 29da1e3
2. Integration version guard e7e8e90
3. UUID bind length e041c83
4. UUID decode speed 7d6b055
5. Released memoryview handler fe7f268
6. IPv4Address subclasses 4bedf43
7. LONG256 on the manual planner 8b8a425
8. Breaking changes in a patch version 182c53b
9. Leak test misses the buffer code 328fd96
10. DATE only with row() 8b4dcde

Submodule source

The submodule moved from 9bbb00a to 8ef0219. This commit is on origin/main. The verdict is UPSTREAM-SYNC.

The range has three commits. The first commit changes the UUID byte order to RFC 4122 (#186). The second commit is a clang-format change for CI. The third commit is a tool change.

I made all declarations in include/ uniform. Then I compared the two versions. Only two new enum members are different. No signature changed. No structure layout changed. No enum value changed.

Test gate

python3 proj.py build gave exit code 0.

proj.py test runs the system python3. It does not run the venv Python. Thus it did not run 105 tests, because pandas, pyarrow and polars are absent. I installed these three packages into ./venv. Then I ran the tests again with ./venv/bin/python.

The result was 876 tests, exit code 0, with 28 tests not run. No test stopped because an optional package was absent.

I did not run the integration tests. There is no QuestDB server available. I did not run valgrind_test. Valgrind is not available on macOS.

Critical problems

1. polars Object columns go to the server as memory addresses — IN-DIFF

CHANGELOG.rst:27 is new in this PR. It says this:

polars Object columns are now rejected with a clear error instead of being ingested as meaningless in-process handles.

This rejection is in questdb-rs/src/ingress/polars.rs. That file is the Rust polars API. The Python client never calls it. polars frames go through __arrow_c_stream__ at _client.pyx:5939. There is no pl.Object check in _client.pyx.

polars exports an Object column as fixed_size_binary[8]. I sent such a column to a QwpAckServer:

errors: []          # the client accepted the data and gave no error
payload: b'QWP1...\x01o\x17\x00\n...02\xc6\x08\x01\x00\x00\x00P2\xd1\x08\x01\x00\x00\x00'
                    #        ^ 0x17 is QWP BINARY
                    #                  ^ 0x0108c63230 and 0x0108d13250 are memory addresses

This behavior is new. This PR causes it. Two independent facts show this:

The first fact is in this PR. The test test_fsb_other_size_rejected in test/system_test.py used assertRaises(qi.QuestDBError) on pa.binary(8). The PR replaced it with test_fsb_other_size_lands_as_binary. The new test shows that the same data now goes to the server and makes a BINARY column. This is the same data shape that polars gives.

The second fact is in the submodule. The upstream test fixed_size_binary_arbitrary_width_rejected_as_unsupported became fixed_size_binary_arbitrary_width_routes_to_binary. Upstream also added ColumnKind::FsbToBinary.

Thus a polars Object column changed from a clear QuestDBError to a BINARY column with memory addresses in it. The addresses are different at each run. The user sees no error.

To correct this: reject pl.Object in the capsule check, or remove the CHANGELOG text. Do not keep the CHANGELOG text without the check. The text tells users that a data problem is corrected. This PR made that data problem.

Fixed in 29da1e3. _reject_polars_object_columns reads the schema of the polars frame one time. It runs after a LazyFrame is collected and before the Arrow export. An Object column gives QuestDBError(BadDataFrame). The message is the same as the message of the Rust polars API. The new test also shows that the mock server receives no payload. Thus the frame stops before the wire.

2. The integration tests permit QuestDB 9.4.3, but the PR needs QuestDB 10 — IN-DIFF

test/test.py:2816 has the class TestQwpOnlyRowTypesIntegration. Its only guard is self._require_qwp_ws(). That guard uses FIRST_QWP_WS_RELEASE = (9, 4, 3). The test test_fsb_other_size_lands_as_binary at test/system_test.py:4895 has the same guard.

QUESTDB_VERSION = '9.4.3'. The CI leg "test vs released" downloads this version. It then runs the tests with TEST_QUESTDB_INTEGRATION=1.

Commit d268a7d has the title "docs: require QuestDB 10 for QWP row types". It changed the necessary server version from 9.4.0 and 9.4.1 to QuestDB 10. It changed only CHANGELOG.rst, _client.pyi and _client.pyx. It changed no test file.

The repository already has this pattern. Examples are FIRST_ARRAY_RELEASE, FIRST_DECIMAL_RELEASE and FIRST_QWP_GAP_HALT_RELEASE. This PR does not use the pattern.

Thus the CI leg will run tests that make a GEOHASH(60b) column. It will also send CHAR, DATE, LONG256, GEOHASH, BINARY and IPV4 data. The PR says the 9.4.3 server cannot accept this data. The tests will fail, or they will wait for an acknowledgement that does not come. The tests will not stop correctly.

Either the guard is wrong or the "QuestDB 10" text is wrong. Both are defects. I could not run this test, because no server is available. But the source code shows the disagreement.

Fixed in e7e8e90. FIRST_QWP_ROW_TYPES_RELEASE = (10, 0, 0) and _require_qwp_row_types() follow the pattern of the other FIRST_*_RELEASE constants. Three tests use the new guard: TestQwpOnlyRowTypesIntegration, test_unclaimed_fsb16_lands_as_binary and test_fsb_other_size_lands_as_binary. The second of these three is not in the finding. It is new in this PR and it also puts a BINARY column on the wire. The other tests in TestColumnIngressNarrowTypes keep the 9.4.3 guard. They send UUID and LONG256 on the Arrow path, which operated before this PR.

Moderate problems

3. _bind_query_params gives a bytes object of unknown length to a function that reads 16 bytes — egress.pxi:513-515, IN-DIFF.
The code does uuid_bytes = value.bytes. The only guard is isinstance(value, uuid.UUID). UUID.bytes is a property, and a subclass can replace it. egress.rs:2248 does copy_from_slice(from_raw_parts(value, 16)) and reads 16 bytes always. I made a subclass that returns b'\x01'. The subclass constructs correctly and passes isinstance. cdef bytes checks the type but not the length. The result is a read of 15 bytes after the end of the heap object. The code before this PR was safe, because to_bytes(8,…) raises OverflowError. A user must write a bad subclass to cause this. Thus normal work does not cause it. But the PR removed a check that cost nothing. Add if len(uuid_bytes) != 16: raise.
Fixed in e041c83. The bind checks the length first and raises ValueError. The new case in test_query_binds uses the same subclass.

4. _numpy_uuid_chunk is slower for each row — egress.pxi:1428-1432, IN-DIFF.
I measured this myself. UUID(bytes=b) needs 577.7 ns. UUID(int=(hi<<64)|lo) needs 508.6 ns. The difference is 69 ns for each row, or 13.6%. The new code also makes a 16-byte bytes object for each row. The bytes= branch of CPython does len(), then assert isinstance, then int_.from_bytes(bytes). Thus it makes an integer in all conditions. The PR moved the work to the more costly branch. This is only on the to_pandas decoder. to_arrow sends the capsule and is not different. Keep UUID(int=…) and change the byte order of the two halves.
Fixed in 7d6b055. The decoder builds the integer again. It reads the two halves with memcpy and puts each half through bswap64, because the bytes now come most-significant byte first.

5. A released memoryview does not go to the handler that the PR wrote for it — _client.pyx:3901 and 1409, IN-DIFF.
The except (BufferError, ValueError) at 3907-3913 adds the text Bad column {name!r} at row {i}. But the code reads .itemsize and .c_contiguous before the PyObject_GetBuffer call. These two reads raise the same ValueError first. Thus the handler never runs for its only usual cause. I tested both paths. The user receives a plain ValueError: operation forbidden on released memoryview object. There is no memory leak. The pool continues to operate.
Fixed in fe7f268. The two property reads are now inside the same try. QuestDBError is not a subclass of ValueError, so the contiguity rejection keeps its own message. Buffer.row reads the same two properties, but it has no column name and no row number to add. Thus it stays as it is.

6. The DataFrame path now rejects normal IPv4Address subclasses — dataframe.pxi:1517 and _client.pyx:3741, IN-DIFF.
The correction for IPv4Interface uses type(x) is IPv4Address. A better test is isinstance(x, IPv4Address) and not isinstance(x, IPv4Interface). I tested a simple subclass class MyAddr(IPv4Address): pass. This subclass worked before the PR. Now it raises QuestDBError: Unsupported object column containing an object of type __main__.MyAddr. The CHANGELOG tells the user only about the IPv4Interface rejection. The row path is new function. Thus the row path has no such problem.
Fixed in 4bedf43. _is_ipv4_address asks for an IPv4Address that is not an IPv4Interface. Three places use it: the object-column sniff of the planner, the cell writer behind it, and Buffer.row. Buffer.row is in the finding as correct, but it must answer the same question in the same way.

7. LONG256 has no path through the pandas manual planner — dataframe.pxi:196-411, IN-DIFF.
The PR removed col_source_fsb32_arrow. It also removed col_target_column_long256 from _FIELD_TARGETS_QWP. Some frames have one column that is not ArrowDtype. These frames use the manual planner. On that planner, the single-column export removes the field metadata. A comment in the code says this. Also, schema_overrides raises UnsupportedDataFrameShapeError there at _client.pyx:6227. Thus all users who send LONG256 DataFrame columns must change their code. If the table does not exist, the server makes a BINARY column and gives no error. The CHANGELOG says that a type claim is always available. For LONG256 on this planner, this is wrong.
Fixed in 8b8a425. The planner refuses a 32-byte fixed_size_binary column. The message gives both ways out: convert the frame and claim LONG256, or send an object column of bytes for BINARY. No operating case is lost, because before this PR the same column was always LONG256 and never BINARY. 16-byte columns stay as they are: UUID can be claimed on this planner, with the arrow.uuid extension type or an object column of uuid.UUID. The CHANGELOG, the QuestDB.dataframe docstring and the _FIELD_TARGETS_QWP comment now say this.

8. Two breaking changes go into a patch version.
Version 5.0.0 came out on 2026-07-27. Both **Breaking:** items are under 5.0.1 (unreleased). Users with questdb>=5.0,<6 receive them from pip install -U. The two corrections also work against each other. A user can add schema_overrides={'v':'uuid'} to make a UUID column again. If that user still sends byte-swapped data, the client reads it as RFC 4122 and the data becomes wrong. The user sees no error. I tested the new path. An unlabelled pa.binary(16) column now sends RFC 4122 bytes without change, as BINARY. Before, it made a UUID column.
Fixed in 182c53b. The heading is now 5.1.0 (unreleased). A >=5.0,<6 pin still accepts this version. The CHANGELOG is the only file to change: bump-my-version writes the other files at release time. The same section has a new note about the two breaking changes together. A reader who repairs the second one with schema_overrides={'col': 'uuid'} gets the UUID column again, but keeps the old byte order. Every 16-byte string is a valid UUID, so the client cannot find this fault. Thus the note is the only remedy.

9. The new leak test does not use the new buffer code — test/test_dataframe_leaks.py:236.
The bad cell is memoryview(b'invalid')[::2]. This cell fails the c_contiguous check first. Thus it never gets to PyObject_GetBuffer. The docstring says the test releases "every earlier borrowed cell while unwinding". This is not possible. The finally is inside the row loop. Thus only one view is open at one time. The related test for the good path makes frames one time, outside work(). Thus a missing PyBuffer_Release on the good path is a refcount leak that RSS cannot show. Only the pre-check branch has a test.
Fixed in 328fd96. The docstring now tells what the test measures: the half-built column and its offset table during the unwind. The new class TestBinaryBufferRelease asks the release question directly. A bytearray cannot grow while an export is open. Thus bytearray.append after the ingest shows that the client let the buffer go. There are two cases: a frame that goes in, and a frame that is refused on its second cell. The second case uses the finally in the row loop. I tested the detector against a made leak first. A ctypes buffer held on the same memoryview makes append raise, as it must.

10. You can write DATE only with row().
There is no 'date' kind for schema_overrides. There is no DataFrame cell type for DATE. But egress.pxi:1191 returns DATE as datetime64[ms]. Thus a query, then a DataFrame, then an ingest changes a DATE column into a TIMESTAMP column. No document says that DATE is available only with row().
Fixed in 8b4dcde. This is a document change. schema_overrides cannot get a 'date' kind here: the override enum of the C ABI has symbol, ipv4, char, geohash, not_symbol, uuid and long256, and no more. A new kind is an upstream change. I confirmed the round trip against the mock server: a datetime64[ms] column is accepted and goes out with the TIMESTAMP wire kind, and the values become microseconds. The DateMillis docstring in the extension and in the stub, a new DATE entry in the type list of QuestDB.dataframe, and the CHANGELOG now say this.

11. The arrow.uuid check depends on how pyarrow makes the type — dataframe.pxi:1426-1431.
I tested this with pyarrow 25. The same field metadata gives is ext: False through pa.Table.from_arrays. The column then becomes BINARY. The same metadata gives is ext: True through the C stream. The column then becomes UUID. The PR removed the comment that told the reader about this difference. Then the PR made correct operation depend on it. pa.uuid() needs pyarrow 18 or later. pyproject.toml permits pyarrow 10. The new text gives no minimum version. The text for decimal gives one.

Minor problems

  • The Geohash docstring says that a precision mismatch "fails when the buffer is flushed". This is wrong. row() raises InvalidApiCall immediately. The buffer goes back to its previous state and stays usable. I tested this. The integration test in this PR shows the opposite of the docstring.
  • Geohash(bits, precision) has two integer arguments in sequence. Geohash(5, 26) is valid but wrong. Also, bits here is the value. But in schema_overrides=('geohash', bits), bits is the precision. The repository already uses the better name precision_bits.
  • RowColumnValue and TransactionColumnValue are only in the stub file. from questdb._client import RowColumnValue passes the type checker but raises ImportError.
  • col_target_column_long256 is dead code at _client.pyx:3249, 4428 and 4732. No path reaches it now. But _TARGET_TO_SOURCES[target] has no guard. Thus a person who makes the target active again will receive a KeyError. The comment at 3255 says that each source set has one member. This is wrong, because col_target_column_uuid has two.
  • On an ILP buffer, the TypeError message lists all nine QWP-only types as permitted. I tested this. A user who obeys the message receives a QuestDBError. Use self._qwp to make the list correct.
  • Buffer is the new reference for all seven types. But Buffer is not in questdb.__all__. I tested this and received ImportError. The only path is the shim that gives a DeprecationWarning. docs/api.rst puts it under "legacy". Also, the public Buffer constructor makes only an ILP buffer. That buffer rejects all seven types.
  • The stub docstrings for the four classes have one line each. The important limits are only in the .pyx file. Examples are the NULL values, the precision limits and the BMP limit. py.typed is present. Thus IDEs read the stub.
  • The PR adds the four wrappers to questdb.ingress.__all__. This makes a deprecated star-import surface larger. The PR also replaced the reason in that file with a statement of intent.
  • line_sender.pxd:1126-1134 has seven members with the name column_sender_numpy_*. The header uses qwp_numpy_*. This is OUT-OF-DIFF. The code compiles now because nothing uses these members. The first use will cause an undeclared-identifier error in the generated C.
  • Memoryviews with two dimensions become one dimension with no message. The code does not check ndim. I tested both paths. No document tells the user about this.
  • test_schema_overrides_long256_forwards_verbatim passes even if the client ignores the override. LONG256 and BINARY both send the bytes without change. The test does not check the 0x0D tag. The related UUID test does this correctly with assertNotIn.
  • schema_overrides={'u': ('uuid', 32)} is permitted. The client removes the 32 and gives no message. I tested this. The kinds symbol, ipv4 and char had this behavior before. Two more kinds now have it.
  • The PR description does not tell the reader about the two breaking changes. It also does not tell the reader about the new schema_overrides kinds or the polars text. All of these are in CHANGELOG.rst.
  • The order in __all__ is not the same in all files. .pyx and .pyi put the four names after ConnectionEventKind. __init__.py and ingress.py put them in alphabetical order.
  • There is no new section in docs/sender.rst and no example. The DECIMAL feature has a section, two example files and manifest entries.

Test coverage problems

  • Critical — the integration version guard. See problem 2. Corrected in e7e8e90.
  • Moderate — no test checks the BINARY bytes on the row path for bytearray and memoryview. The tests use only b'' and plain bytes. I checked the bytes myself. They are correct now: the offsets are [0, 11, 23, 35] and the data is exact. Thus this is a risk of a future fault, not a fault now.
  • Moderate — there is no leak test or refcount test for the Py_buffer on the row path. I checked for a leak by hand. The bytearray stays resizable after the good path, after the rejection path and after the released-view path.
  • Moderate — the two egress UUID boundaries have only integration tests behind a guard that can stop the test. The mock server does ingest and acknowledge only. Thus a unit-level reader test is not possible now.
  • Moderate — there is no wrong-width test for the variable-length 'uuid' and 'long256' path. This is the polars path that the CHANGELOG tells users to use.

Summary

Request changes. Two Critical problems and one Critical test problem are open.

Update: the two Critical problems and the Critical test problem are corrected, together with Moderate problems 3 to 10. Problem 11, the Minor list and the other test-coverage items stay open. The test-coverage item about the Py_buffer on the row path stays open too: the new refcount test covers the DataFrame cell writer, not Buffer.row. The paragraphs below are the text as first written.

The main engineering work in this PR is correct. I want to say this clearly, and separately from the verdict. All seven .pxd declarations agree with the header, field by field. All six UUID and LONG256 byte-order positions are correct against the headers and against the Rust code. The memory and refcount code is correct on all paths that I and three agents examined. The PR changed no nogil section. test_qwp_websocket_accepts_all_row_types is a strong test. I calculated all seven expected byte sequences by hand, and they agree.

The problems are at the edges of this work. Problem 1 is the most serious. The PR adds CHANGELOG text about a safety check that does not exist on the Python path. In the same PR, this condition changes from a clear error to ingestion of process memory. Problem 2 points the CI leg at a server that the PR says cannot run the tests. Both corrections are small. Problem 1 needs a check or a CHANGELOG change. Problem 2 needs a FIRST_QWP_ROW_TYPES_RELEASE constant.

Speed and compatibility results. All four are corrected:

  • One measured speed loss on a much-used path (problem 4). It is 13.6% on the UUID to_pandas decode. You can prevent it. 7d6b055
  • Two behavior changes with no notice to users (problems 6 and 7). 4bedf43 and 8b8a425
  • Two breaking changes in a patch version (problem 8). 182c53b

Final counts:

  • Test gate: proj.py build exit code 0. 876 tests, exit code 0, with the optional packages installed. I did not run the integration tests. Valgrind is not available on macOS.
  • Test gate after the corrections: test/test.py 879 tests, exit code 0, 28 not run. test_dataframe.py 391, test_client_capsule_path.py 60, test_dataframe_leaks.py 7. All exit code 0. The integration tests still did not run, because no server is available.
  • Submodule source: UPSTREAM-SYNC.
  • I accepted 28 problems. I removed 10 candidates that were wrong.
  • In-diff 23, out-of-diff 5. The out-of-diff problems are these: the .pxd name qwp_numpy_*; the DATE egress difference; CHAR and IPV4 that do not go out and come back the same; Buffer absent from __all__; and the LONG256 path through the pandas manual planner.

mtopolnik and others added 5 commits August 19, 2026 15:54
The changelog for 5.0.1 claims that polars `Object` columns are
rejected with a clear error, but that rejection lived only in
`questdb-rs/src/ingress/polars.rs`, which is the Rust API. The Python
client never calls it. A polars frame reaches the server through
`__arrow_c_stream__`, and polars exports an `Object` column as
`fixed_size_binary(8)` whose payload is the in-process address of each
Python object.

Until this pull request such a column was refused further down, because
a fixed-size binary column of a width other than 16 or 32 had no route.
The updated C client now routes any fixed-size binary width to BINARY,
so those eight-byte addresses were being accepted and stored. The values
differ on every run and mean nothing outside the process that produced
them, and the user saw no error at all.

`_reject_polars_object_columns` walks the schema of the polars frame
once, after a `LazyFrame` has been collected and before the Arrow
export, and raises

  QuestDBError(BadDataFrame): Bad column 'o': polars Object dtype is
  not supported; cast it to a supported dtype before ingest.

The wording follows the message the Rust polars API already produces.
The new test in `test/test_client_capsule_path.py` also asserts that the
mock server received no payload, so the frame is stopped before anything
goes on the wire.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Commit d268a7d raised the server requirement for the seven QWP-only
column types from 9.4.0 and 9.4.1 to QuestDB 10, but it changed only
`CHANGELOG.rst`, `_client.pyi` and `_client.pyx`. No test moved with it.

The integration tests that exercise those types were guarded only by
`_require_qwp_ws()`, which checks `FIRST_QWP_WS_RELEASE = (9, 4, 3)`.
The "test vs released" CI leg downloads `QUESTDB_VERSION = '9.4.3'` and
runs with `TEST_QUESTDB_INTEGRATION=1`, so it would run those tests
against a server the client documents as too old. They would either
fail or wait for an acknowledgement that never arrives.

This adds `FIRST_QWP_ROW_TYPES_RELEASE = (10, 0, 0)` and a
`_require_qwp_row_types()` guard next to the existing
`FIRST_ARRAY_RELEASE`, `FIRST_DECIMAL_RELEASE` and
`FIRST_QWP_GAP_HALT_RELEASE` pattern, and points three tests at it:

  test/test.py
    TestQwpOnlyRowTypesIntegration
      test_round_trip_sentinels_precisions_and_mixed_precision_error

  test/system_test.py
    TestColumnIngressNarrowTypes
      test_unclaimed_fsb16_lands_as_binary
      test_fsb_other_size_lands_as_binary

The first writes UUID, IPV4, BINARY, CHAR, DATE, LONG256 and GEOHASH
values through `row()`, and creates a `GEOHASH(60b)` column. The other
two send a BINARY column through the Arrow dataframe path, which the
`QuestDB.dataframe` docstring also puts at QuestDB 10 or newer. The
remaining tests in `TestColumnIngressNarrowTypes` keep the 9.4.3 guard;
they cover UUID and LONG256 over the Arrow path, which worked before
this pull request and still does.

`TestColumnIngressNarrowTypes` carries its own copy of the guard, the
same way it already carries its own copy of `_require_qwp_ws`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_bind_query_params` accepted any value that passed
`isinstance(value, uuid.UUID)` and passed `value.bytes` straight to
`qwp_reader_query_bind_uuid`, which does

  copy_from_slice(from_raw_parts(value, 16))

and therefore reads exactly 16 bytes from the pointer it is given.
`uuid.UUID.bytes` is a property, so a subclass can return a shorter
buffer:

  class ShortUuid(uuid.UUID):
      @Property
      def bytes(self):
          return b'\x01'

Such an object constructs normally and passes the `isinstance` test.
The `cdef bytes` declaration checks the type of what comes back but not
its length, so the bind read 15 bytes past the end of the heap object.

Before this pull request the same code path built the pointer with
`to_bytes(8, ...)`, which raises `OverflowError` on a value that does
not fit, so the length could not go wrong. This restores an equivalent
guarantee with an explicit check that raises

  ValueError: query bind $1: uuid.UUID.bytes returned 1 bytes,
  expected 16.

A user has to write a misbehaving subclass to reach this, so ordinary
code never sees it, but the check costs nothing on the normal path.

The new case in `test_query_binds` uses exactly the subclass above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_numpy_uuid_chunk` is the pandas-side reader for a UUID result column.
It used to read the two 64-bit halves with `memcpy` and call
`UUID(int=(hi << 64) | lo)`. When the wire order changed to canonical
RFC 4122 the call became `UUID(bytes=...)`, which takes the row
verbatim and needs no arithmetic in our code.

That reads well but costs more per row. CPython's `bytes=` branch
checks the length, asserts the type and then calls
`int.from_bytes`, so it builds exactly the same integer we were
building, and on top of that we allocate a 16-byte `bytes` object for
every row. Measured on this machine over 200000 iterations,
`UUID(bytes=b)` takes about 570 ns and `UUID(int=...)` about 500 ns,
so the switch cost roughly 70 ns per row, or about 13%, on the
`to_pandas` decode path. The `to_arrow` path is unaffected: it hands
out the Arrow capsule and never builds `UUID` objects.

This restores the integer form. The two halves are still read with
`memcpy`, and each is passed through `bswap64` because the bytes now
arrive most-significant-first rather than in the little-endian halves
QWP puts on the wire. `bswap64` already exists in `dataframe.pxi`,
which is included into the same translation unit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The BINARY cell writer for object-dtype DataFrame columns wraps
`PyObject_GetBuffer` in

  except (BufferError, ValueError) as exc:

so that a bad memoryview is reported as

  Bad column 'value' at row 1: invalid memoryview BINARY value: ...

That handler never ran for the case it was written for. The two
property reads that decide whether the cell is C-contiguous with
one-byte items sat above the `try`, and a released memoryview refuses
those reads first:

  ValueError: operation forbidden on released memoryview object

The user therefore got that bare message with no column name and no row
number, and the handler only ever fired for the rarer failures
`PyObject_GetBuffer` itself reports. Nothing leaked; the buffer was
never acquired, and the pool carried on.

Both property reads now sit inside the same `try`. The contiguity
rejection raises `QuestDBError`, which does not derive from
`ValueError`, so it passes through the handler untouched and keeps its
own wording.

`Buffer.row` reads the same two properties without a wrapper, but it
has no column name or row number to add, so a released view there still
raises the interpreter's own `ValueError` and is left alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review — level 3 (full pass)

What I reviewed

  • Base: 46819463db902601badd8f171affc795090412f9 (merge base with main)
  • Head: ab207fa1a7075dc6b1a64a135c0c1f5ebf3ea308 — the local branch tip, not what is pushed here

The branch on GitHub is 11 commits behind the local tree. gh pr diff returns fad811c5; the tree has 11 more commits on top (+724 lines, including _client.pyx +155, dataframe.pxi +81, _client.pyi +52). I reviewed the local tip, because several of those commits fix things a reviewer would otherwise report. Worth pushing before anyone else looks — and the CI matrix described as "rerunning against the consolidated heads" is running against older code.

Submodule: pinned off the default branch

c-questdb-client moves from 9bbb00a (on main) to fd43b471, which only exists on origin/fix/geohash-value-range. Ten of the fifteen commits in that range are not on main, so I reviewed their contents too. Two notes:

  • The description says the pin is 82096e6b5fcbd3c60b7ceb44ee658af546ce332e. It is actually fd43b471, one commit later (fix(qwp): preserve delivery scope across partial flushes).
  • The blocker in the description still holds: this cannot merge until #195 lands on c-questdb-client/main and the gitlink is repointed. That comes before everything below.

Critical

C1 — a test asserts a number it can no longer produce

test/test.py:8277 writes 'gh8': qi.Geohash(255, 8). test/test.py:8336-8337 still expects the read-back list [1, 31, 85, 170, (1 << 60) - 1].

Commit 5310622 ("Test byte-aligned geohash sentinel value") changed the input from Geohash(170, 8) to Geohash(255, 8) and left the expected value alone. 170 is 0xAA — exactly what the old input produced. The other four geohash columns in the same check come back as whatever was written, so nothing turns 255 into 170.

255 is the right thing to test. I checked the pinned submodule: geohash_precision_needs_bitmap (questdb-rs/src/ingress/buffer/qwp.rs:7359-7364) adds an explicit validity bitmap whenever the precision is a multiple of 8, specifically so the all-ones maximum does not look like a null. So the value survives the round trip and the expectation is just out of date.

Why it matters: this is the only test that writes all seven types plus every documented NULL sentinel to a real server and reads them back. It only runs on the linux-qdb10 and linux-qdb-master legs, and both will fail. It also means those legs have not been run since that commit.

Fix: change 170 to 255 on line 8337.

C2 — the bug the _column_* refactor fixes has no test

The refactor changed every _column_* helper to take a str name and encode it itself, instead of receiving a name that was already encoded. The bug it fixes is real — I confirmed it in the Rust: qdb_pystr_buf_clear (rpyutils/src/pystr_to_utf8.rs:73-79) truncates the chunk list to one and clears that chunk, so a name encoded earlier is pointing at freed or overwritten memory. On the base revision, _column_dt called datetime_to_micros(dt) — which runs the caller's tzinfo.utcoffset() — while holding exactly such a name. It only affects non-ASCII names, because ASCII names take a fast path that points into the str object itself.

The test that would prove the fix needs three things together: a non-ASCII column name, a value whose conversion runs Python that allocates, and an assertion on the bytes that come out. Nothing does all three. I searched the whole test tree for non-ASCII column names and found four uses, none of which prove it:

  • test.py:3335 uses trivial uuid.UUID / IPv4Address subclasses that allocate nothing, and only covers the two new types, which had nothing to regress from.
  • test.py:3377 uses 'ñame' with a hostile conversion, but the re-entrant clear() is refused, so the arena never actually gets reused in the window being tested.
  • reentrancy_matrix.py:412 (the 'ip''íp' change in 548508b) does run a hostile conversion under a non-ASCII name, but the grid only records clean / refused / a reason string. It never looks at the buffer or the wire, so a corrupted name still records as clean.
  • _column_dt, the case the code comment actually names, has no non-ASCII test at all.

So if any one helper were reverted to the old shape, nothing in roughly 25,000 lines of new test material would go red. The structural check does not cover this either — see M4.


Moderate

M1 — every live QuestDB object takes a thread-local slot, and there are only ~512

_client.pyx:7837-7845 (from 4be0637) calls PyThread_tss_alloc() and PyThread_tss_create() once per instance. The slot is only given back in __dealloc__ (:9088-9091) — close() does not release it. I ran this:

FAILED after 503 live QuestDB handles: RuntimeError: Could not create QuestDB thread-use counter.

pthread_key_create slots are a per-process resource shared with every other library in the process (512 on macOS, 1024 on glibc). The old threading.local() had no such limit. Once they run out, every later questdb.connect() fails for the rest of the process, and any other native library that asks for a slot afterwards — numpy, BLAS, OpenMP — fails too.

This gets worse alongside a leak the code already documents at _client.pyx:2918-2921: a handle caught in a reference cycle through its own callback "leaks rather than crashing". Every one of those now also takes a slot permanently. The failure also comes out as RuntimeError, which is outside the QuestDBError family users catch.

One module-level key with a counter per handle would remove the limit, as would falling back to threading.local() when tss_create fails.

M2 — a new raise sits before the decrement it was added to protect

At _client.pyx:7927-7936:

self._exit_scoped_call()      # this can now raise (:7920-7925)
self._call_uses -= 1

Same shape in PooledSender._exit_call_locked (:10879-10882) and PooledReader._exit_call_locked (:11514-11517), where handle._exit_scoped_call() was moved ahead of self._call_depth -= 1. If it raises, the counter never comes down. QuestDB.close() then waits out its timeout and refuses, permanently; or _check_not_mid_call refuses that lease's close() forever and the sender never goes back to the pool. All three are inside finally blocks, so the raise would also replace whatever error was already on its way out.

The same commit shows the fix it did not apply: _enter_call_locked (:10870-10877) got an except: self._call_depth -= 1; raise to unwind cleanly. The matching exit did not.

I could not find a way to actually trigger it — every begin/end pair runs in one frame on one thread — so this is latent. But it cannot be recovered from if it ever happens, and swapping two lines fixes it.

M3 — CI can quietly skip about a third of the tests

ci/pip_install_deps.py installs pandas, numpy, pyarrow, polars, fastparquet and psutil with try_pip_install (:48), which catches the failure and exits 0. The only check that they actually arrived is at :126-141, behind if on_linux_is_glibc and is_64bits and is_cpython and is_final:. So:

  • the mac and windows-msvc-2022 legs check nothing;
  • polars is never checked on any platform, so test_client_polars_fuzz.py and TestCapsulePathPolars can disappear;
  • psutil is never checked, and all of test_dataframe_leaks.py is skipped without it.

I saw what this looks like. Running the suite on an interpreter without pandas and pyarrow gives Ran 636 tests … OK (skipped=225) — a green run that silently left out a third of the tests, including the whole DataFrame, capsule, claim and leak surface. Extending that check block to every platform and adding polars and psutil is a small change.

M4 — the structural check does not check what the comment says it does

test/test.py:6748 pulls helper signatures out of _client.pyx with this pattern:

cdef\s+(?:inline\s+)?void_int\s+(_column_\w+)\s*\((?P<params>[^)]*)\)

Four ways past it:

  1. The return type is part of the pattern. Change one helper to cdef inline void or an explicit except -1 and it matches nothing — zero offenders found, test passes.
  2. [^)]* stops at the first ), so anything after a nested paren is not scanned.
  3. It only reads _client.pyx. dataframe.pxi (42 _column_*__* helpers) and egress.pxi are never looked at.
  4. It only matches names starting with _column_.

There is already something it cannot see. _column_decimal (_client.pyx:1620-1624) encodes the name and passes it into serialize_decimal_py_obj (dataframe.pxi:3308) — the exact shape the comment says no longer exists. That is safe as written. I traced it: _is_decimal is a type-pointer comparison, _DECIMAL_IS_C is a C global, and decimal_pyobj_to_binary (mpdecimal_compat.pxd:29-71) reads the struct directly and never re-enters Python. The problem is the guard, not the code: make that path run any Python and the dangling-name bug comes back with a green test.

M5 — the two grids covering the riskiest code only run overnight, on macOS

.github/workflows/grids.yml runs the re-entrancy and concurrency grids on a schedule and on manual dispatch, on macos-15. Only the claim grid is a PR gate (ci/run_tests_pipeline.yaml:158, one leg). The reasoning in the file is fair, but it means a regression in _row_depth, _clear_or_defer or _rewind_after_failure shows up the next morning, on one OS.

Two things make that narrower still. 28 cells in the expected tables hard-code Resource temporarily unavailable (os error 35), which is macOS's EAGAIN — on Linux it is os error 11, so these grids cannot pass on the platform most people ship on. And claim_matrix.py:460-463 returns 0 from --update no matter what, while reentrancy_matrix.py:840 and concurrency_matrix.py return a non-zero code computed beforehand. So a column whose wire type silently changed can be written into the claim table with one command and no signal.

I ran all three at the tip: claim exit 0, concurrency 623 cells exit 0, re-entrancy 1246 cells exit 0.

M6 — Sender.dataframe() documents none of the new types, and points at a page that also has none

_client.pyx:10191 says "See the buffer-level dataframe documentation for details on the supported column types and arguments." Buffer.dataframe (:2220-2530) never mentions UUID, BINARY, GEOHASH, LONG256, CHAR, DATE or schema_overrides — its mapping table stops at the older dtypes. All of that lives only on QuestDB.dataframe. Over ws:: and wss::, Sender.dataframe runs the same _direct_dataframe_run code. PooledSender.dataframe already does the right thing: "Arguments mirror QuestDB.dataframe" (:11126).

While in there: Buffer.dataframe's claim that Sender.dataframe "supports the same parameters" (:2231) is no longer true — Sender.dataframe has schema_overrides and max_rows_per_batch and Buffer.dataframe has neither.

M7 — an error message tells you to pass an argument the same call rejects

Both of these are real output I got:

Buffer.dataframe -> QuestDBError: Bad column 'c': questdb.Char is a row-ingestion wrapper, not a
  DataFrame cell type. Replace each wrapper with `ord(value.value)` in a uint16 column in a fully
  Arrow-backed frame and pass `schema_overrides={'c': 'char'}`.

Sender.dataframe(+schema_overrides) -> QuestDBError: schema_overrides is applied when a frame is
  written a column at a time … This sender writes a row at a time. Drop the argument, or connect
  over ws:: / wss::.

Buffer.dataframe() has no schema_overrides parameter at all. So the first message tells you to do the thing the second message refuses. The row-path message (_require_qwp_column, :1627-1633) handles this well by naming the protocol first, and this one could do the same.

M8 — 'date' works but is not in the documented list

_client.pyx:8515-8518 and _client.pyi:363-380 list the df.attrs['questdb'] kinds as 'uuid', 'long256', 'ipv4', 'char' and 'geohash'. But _dataframe_normalize_claimed_date (:5657) does if kind != 'date': continue, separately from _ATTRS_OVERRIDE_KINDS, so {'kind': 'date'} does work. And the DateMillis docstring (:920-923) sends people there — it is the only way to get a NumPy millisecond column to DATE, the alternative being the silent widening to microsecond TIMESTAMP that the docstring warns about. So a reader following that pointer is told the kind does not exist.

M9 — reading rows back and writing them again silently changes five of the seven types

to_pandas() gives CHAR as np.uint16, IPV4 as np.uint32, GEOHASH as a signed int, and UUID and LONG256 as bytes under numpy_nullable. Passing those same cells back into row():

type what the reader gives you what row() sends any error?
CHAR np.uint16 LONG no
IPV4 np.uint32 LONG no
GEOHASH signed int LONG no
LONG256 int / bytes LONG / BINARY no
UUID bytes BINARY no

dataframe() gets all five right on its own from df.attrs['questdb']. row() takes a plain dict, has no equivalent, and says nothing — the route warning added in 1fdde38 only fires for dataframe(). Only int > 2**63 produces an error. Adding Long256.from_bytes and Char.from_code_point, and some way to carry precision for GEOHASH, would close most of it.


Minor

  1. egress.pxi:1385-1399precision == 0 now slips past if precision >= 1 and precision <= 7 into the <= 15 branch instead of raising, and stride == 0 is no longer rejected (only stride > target is), so you get all-zero geohashes with no error. The base had else: raise 'unexpected geohash byte width' and caught both. It needs the native layer to report nonsense, so it is not really reachable — but two guards went away.
  2. egress.pxi:1380-1384 — the comment says the widths keep "every value positive in its container, which is what the range check on the way back in expects." The check on the way in (_attrs_override_fits, :7073-7078) says the opposite and means it: "Signed Arrow carriers preserve their raw two's-complement bits, including the sign bit." Both behaviours are correct; the comment would justify a wrong change later.
  3. Geohash(bits, precision) takes two plain ints in a row, and swapping them is silent — Geohash(20, 5) and Geohash(5, 20) both build fine. Every sibling wrapper takes one argument, and this is the one type whose known risk is already "wrong precision stores a different location or NULL". Making precision keyword-only would remove the trap.
  4. _clear_now() (:1490-1492) dropped the _check_impl() that Buffer.clear() had on the base revision; it is reached from SenderTransaction.rollback through _clear_or_defer. I could not find a path where _impl is NULL there (Sender._buffer only exists while _impl is set), but a NULL would go straight into line_sender_buffer_clear.
  5. _column_binary errors do not say which column (:1651-1654) — a plain ValueError('memoryview BINARY values must be C-contiguous…'), and a released memoryview comes out as the raw ValueError: operation forbidden on released memoryview object. The DataFrame builders added in this same PR wrap both with Bad column {name!r} at row {i}:.
  6. The ILP int-overflow message loses the column name. QWP gives Bad column 'x': integer out of range for a LONG column…; ILP gives bare Python int too large to convert to C long, even though the name is right there at :1765.
  7. Buffer.__len__'s docstring still says it is equivalent to len(bytes(buffer)). On a QWP buffer I measured len(b) == 28 and bytes(b) == b''peek returns an empty view for QWP by design. The text predates this PR, but this PR rewrote the neighbouring __bytes__ docstring and added "read mid-row on the same terms" to this one.
  8. Adding Char, DateMillis, Geohash and Long256 to questdb.ingress.__all__ is not in CHANGELOG.rst, and it rewrites the shim's own promise to match the 4.x star-import surface. Four short, common-looking names now land in every existing from questdb.ingress import *.
  9. Stub and implementation have drifted: SchemaOverrides is Tuple[str, int] in _client.pyx:1072 and Tuple[str, SupportsIndex] in _client.pyi:529; all three dataframe() implementations annotate Optional[Dict[str, object]] while the stub says Optional[SchemaOverrides]; the runtime aliases are defined and never used anywhere. And Sender.dataframe's df: pd.DataFrame (vs Any on the other two) makes a type checker reject a valid pyarrow call.
  10. schema_overrides throws away a tuple argument for every kind except geohash (:6588-6624), so ('char', 8) — an easy slip for ('geohash', 8) — is accepted as a plain CHAR override with no complaint.
  11. schema_overrides={} is rejected by Sender.dataframe's is not None check (:10256), even though {} means "no overrides" everywhere else.
  12. ci/pip_install_deps.py:64 calls importlib.metadata.version() right after installing the package, without importlib.invalidate_caches() — which is the documented fix for exactly this install-then-look-up-in-the-same-process pattern. A possible flake on the linux-pandas2 leg.
  13. test/qwp_wire.py:14 WIRE_TYPES is missing 0x12 (LONG_ARRAY) although 0x11 DOUBLE_ARRAY is there. A captured column would show up as '0x12' in the grid table instead of a name. Not reachable today.
  14. Performance, all small: QWP int cells lose Cython's inlined integer conversion in favour of an out-of-line PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow (roughly 5–10 ns per cell, low single-digit percent on int-heavy QWP rows); the LONG256 object-column builder does two redundant comparisons per cell (:4085-4090) that int.to_bytes already covers; the UUID and LONG256 builders allocate a 16- or 32-byte bytes per cell.
  15. Five of the 218 commits change .claude/skills/review-pr/SKILL.md, which has nothing to do with the feature.
  16. Char('�') and Char('\U00010000') — the exact accept/reject boundary at _client.pyx:895 — have no test, though both neighbours do.

Downgraded (checked and dropped)

Claim Why it was dropped
reentrancy_matrix_expected.json is out of date vs its harness (548508b) I ran the grid: 1246 cells, exit 0. The harness change did not alter any recorded outcome.
The GEOHASH signed-dtype change is undocumented It is documented, CHANGELOG.rst:68-75, under Breaking changes, including the note that code reading the dtype will now see a signed type.
schema_overrides=[] is silently ignored (falsy check runs before the type check) Cython's annotation typing rejects it first: TypeError: Argument 'schema_overrides' has incorrect type (expected dict, got list). The ordering inside _validate_schema_overrides is not reachable from the public API.
symbols=[True, False] is read as column indices 1 and 0 True, but isinstance(entry, int) is identical on the base revision (_client.pyx:5340). Not from this PR.
A second thread calling Sender.row() during _dataframe's GIL release takes over the frame's rewind point The base has the same hole and no guard at all. Not a regression — the new guard is an improvement.
The cp314t wheel quietly turns the GIL back on (no freethreading_compatible directive) Confirmed true (_client.c:1272, :218502), but cp314t is already in ci/cibuildwheel.yaml on the base. Not from this PR.
_numpy_uuid_chunk / _numpy_long256_chunk read past the buffer when stride is smaller than the width Same on the base (egress.pxi:1467, :1504). Worth noting that this PR added exactly that guard to the geohash version and not these two.
Long256.__new__ / copy / pickle could produce _bytes is None and reach PyBytes_AsString(NULL) __cinit__ closes all of it. Checked at runtime: __new__ gives TypeError: __cinit__() takes exactly 1 positional argument; pickle and copy give TypeError: no default __reduce__ due to non-trivial __cinit__; object.__new__(L) is refused.
The four new wrappers have no __eq__ / __hash__ and cannot be pickled True, but TimestampMicros and TimestampNanos behave the same way on the base — TimestampMicros(5) == TimestampMicros(5) is False. Existing convention, not a change.
Geohash(255, 8) collides with the geohash null sentinel The pinned submodule adds an explicit validity bitmap at byte-aligned precisions (qwp.rs:7359-7364), so it round-trips. This reduces to C1 and Minor #2.
A re-entrant Buffer.row() destroys the outer row's rewind point _set_marker() runs before _row_depth += 1, and the Rust ensure_marker_can_be_set refuses mid-line, so the inner row fails cleanly and the outer row is intact. Checked at runtime.
The refactor's claim that "an append leaves every pointer already handed out where it is" It is correct. get_dest (rpyutils/src/pystr_to_utf8.rs:95-104) either appends into spare capacity or pushes a new chunk; it never moves an existing chunk's heap buffer.

Some things I checked that are fine and worth saying out loud: all seven new .pxd declarations, the qwp_arrow_override_kind enum and the qwp_arrow_override struct match the pinned headers field for field; every line_sender_error* is freed exactly once through c_err_to_py; line_sender_buffer_column_binary copies its input (qwp.rs:1725-1727), so releasing the buffer in the finally is right; the qwp_arrow_override array's borrowed pointers are kept alive by merged_overrides across every nogil section and the array is freed on the error path too; all seven documented NULL sentinels are accepted; and GEOHASH precision pinning rewinds the buffer exactly as documented (I measured length 22 → 22 on a rejected row, and the buffer stayed usable).


Test gate

Everything below I ran at ab207fa, in ./venv (Python 3.14.5, Cython 3.2.8, pandas 3.0.3, pyarrow 25.0.0, polars 1.43.2):

Command Result
proj.py build exit 0
proj.py test 1032 tests, OK (skipped=28)
proj.py grid claim exit 0
proj.py grid concurrency 623 cells, exit 0
proj.py grid reentrancy 1246 cells, exit 0
proj.py doc (Sphinx -nW --keep-going) build succeeded

Not run: proj.py test all, because there is no QuestDB 10 here — which is exactly where C1 fails. proj.py valgrind_test and test_fuzzing were also not run.

Test gaps counted: 1 critical (C2), 3 moderate (M3, M4, M5).


Summary

Request changes.

The work here is careful. The arena analysis is right and the fix is the correct one, the C-ABI declarations match the pinned headers exactly, the re-entrancy machinery held across 1,869 grid cells I ran, and native_captures.md is a genuinely good idea. The refactor also costs nothing per cell — I counted encodes per branch against the base and the difference is zero on every path.

What stops it:

  1. The submodule is pinned off main — already flagged in the description, though the description names the wrong commit (82096e6b vs the actual fd43b471).
  2. C1 — a one-line stale expectation that turns both QuestDB-10 legs red.
  3. C2 — the refactor has no regression test, and that test is the only thing standing between a future revert and silent memory corruption on non-ASCII column names.
  4. M1 — a new 503-handle ceiling, reproduced, replacing something that had no ceiling.

M2 and M4 are cheap and worth doing in the same pass. M6 through M9 are documentation and consistency work I would not hold the PR for one at a time, but M9 — round-tripping rows silently changes five column types — has real data-integrity reach and deserves a decision rather than a deferral.

Counts: 30 findings kept (2 critical, 9 moderate, 16 minor, plus 3 test gaps beyond C2), 12 candidates dropped as false positives or pre-existing. 27 in the diff, 3 outside it.

One note on the cross-context pass: it found little outside the diff, and that is a real result rather than an under-run. The _column_* family turns out to have no callers outside Buffer._column and _column_qwp_only — the DataFrame path calls the C ABI directly with names copied into its own arena — so the blast radius of that signature change really is contained.

Reviewed with Claude Code at level 3: 10 parallel review agents, per-candidate verification, plus the executed evidence above.

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Reviewed at level 3: a full pass with ten parallel review agents, and every serious claim checked by hand against the source or reproduced by running it.

BASE 46819463HEAD bbe84dd1 · 223 commits · 30,544 added lines across 45 files.

I ran the tests. ./venv/bin/python proj.py test gives 1033 passed, 28 skipped, exit 0. The 32 Rust tests pass. All three grids pass and their checked-in tables are up to date. git status is clean afterwards. One note: python3 proj.py build fails on my machine because the Homebrew 3.14 python3 has no setuptools. That is my environment, it behaves the same way at BASE, and it is not a problem with this PR — you need the project venv.

About the submodule. The pin moves from 9bbb00a1 to fd43b471. That commit is not on c-questdb-client's main — it only exists on the fix/geohash-value-range branch. 10 of the 15 new commits are off main, so their contents count as part of this change. Small thing: the PR description says the gitlink points at 82096e6b, but it actually points at fd43b471, one commit later.


Critical

C1 — Each QuestDB handle takes a thread-local slot, and the operating system only has about 500 of them

Where: src/questdb/_client.pyx:7843-7850 creates the slot, 9101-9104 frees it. This came in with commit 4be0637, which is in this PR and not in BASE.

__cinit__ calls PyThread_tss_alloc() and PyThread_tss_create() once per handle. Underneath, that is pthread_key_create. The operating system gives a whole process a fixed number of these keys — 512 on macOS, 1024 on Linux — and Python itself plus every other C extension in the process is drawing from the same pool. So creating handles eventually runs the process out. I checked, and it does:

FAILED at handle #503: RuntimeError: Could not create QuestDB thread-use counter.

There is a second half to this that makes it worse. The code already says (_client.pyx:2923-2929) that if you build a handle with an error_handler or connection_listener and then drop it without calling close(), it is kept alive forever by _LIVE_CALLBACK_REFS. __dealloc__ never runs for such a handle, so its key is never given back. Before this PR that was a memory leak, which is unpleasant but survivable. Now it leaks something the process has a hard limit on. Once roughly 500 of them pile up, every later connect() in that process fails for good, and neither closing handles nor garbage collection gets you back.

Also worth fixing while you are in there: the error is a plain RuntimeError, not a QuestDBError, so anyone catching QuestDBError will not see it, and the message talks about an internal counter rather than what actually went wrong.

Suggested fix: use one module-level key (or a threading.local()) holding a {id(handle): depth} mapping. That gives you the same per-handle, per-thread depth without spending a key each time.

C2 — close() now refuses on handles that are not doing anything, because it compares the wrong thing

Where: the new check is at _client.pyx:8898-8909; the helper it uses is at 2955-2962.

_on_dispatch_thread_for decides "am I currently inside this handle's own callback?" by checking whether the handler function on the stack is the same object as this handle's handler. The trouble is that when you do not pass a handler, both QuestDB.from_conf (:8123) and Sender.__cinit__ (:9277) fall back to the very same module-level _default_error_handler function (:3085). Every handle in the process shares one object, so this check cannot tell one handle's callback from another's. The same thing happens if you deliberately pass one shared error_handler=on_error to several handles, which is a normal way to write this.

At BASE this mix-up was harmless: the only thing it did was make close() skip a wait. This PR adds a new check that raises instead. I reproduced it against a real QwpAckServer:

b.close(): RAISED QuestDBError | close() can't wait for outstanding leases or calls
from inside this handle's own error_handler or connection_listener callback...

Handle b was not in any callback. The close never happens, so the handle and its connection pool stay around, and the error message tells the user something that is not true. BASE handles this case better, so this is a step backwards.

Suggested fix: push the handle itself (or id(self)) onto the dispatch stack and compare that, instead of comparing the callback function.

C3 — The submodule pin quietly changes UUID byte order, and nothing would catch a wrong pin

qwp_reader_query_bind_uuid has exactly the same C declaration at both pins:

void qwp_reader_query_bind_uuid(qwp_reader_query*, const uint8_t value[16]);

But BASE's header says the bytes are "raw bytes" and HEAD's says "canonical RFC-4122 big-endian order". The Python side moved to the new meaning (egress.pxi:509-521 now passes value.bytes), and the write path moved with it (_client.pyx:4272 changed from 'little' to 'big').

I looked for anything that would notice a mismatch and found nothing: no version symbol in the headers, no check in setup.py or proj.py, and none of the enum numbers moved, so there is no accidental link-time signal either. Because the function signature is unchanged, a build against the wrong submodule commit compiles cleanly, links cleanly, and passes every test that does not actually compare a UUID value end to end. Every UUID written or bound would just come out backwards.

That matters because the PR description already commits to doing exactly the risky thing: "this gitlink must be refreshed to the resulting mainline commit" once #195 lands. If that refresh picks up a commit without the byte-order change, nothing tells you. So the off-main pin is a real blocker rather than a paperwork item. Please hold merge until the gitlink points at something reachable from main, and consider adding an explicit check so this cannot happen silently later.


Moderate

M1 — close() promises leases keep working, but PooledSender.dataframe() stops working. Two agents found this separately and I reproduced it. The docstrings at _client.pyx:8835, 8180 and 8716 all say "an outstanding lease keeps working until its holder closes it". But PooledSender.dataframe hands off to QuestDB.dataframe, which calls _begin_db_use (:8549), and that refuses the moment _closing is set (:7871-7877). Since _closing is never turned off again, someone who hits the 60-second limit ends up holding a lease where row() and flush() keep working forever but dataframe() is dead permanently. PooledReader does keep the promise, which is what makes this look like an oversight.

M2 — PooledSender.close() says it is idempotent, but the new checks can make it refuse — from another thread. Two agents, reproduced. _client.pyx:11414-11442 added _check_not_in_row and _check_not_mid_call before _enter_call_locked. PooledSender.dataframe deliberately lets go of self._lock for the whole bulk load while leaving _call_depth raised, so a different thread calling lease.close() gets turned away with a message written for the same-thread case: "from inside a call on this sender lease… Close the lease after the call returns." For a thread that is not in the call, there is no "after the call returns" to wait for. And a lease that will not close is exactly what makes QuestDB.close() sit there for the full 60 seconds.

M3 — PooledSender.wait(), await_acked_fsn() and poll_error are not blocked while a row is half-written. See _client.pyx:11060-11079 and 11365-11413. flush(), the two flush_and_*_fsn methods and close all check _check_not_in_row; these three do not. wait(timeout_millis=0) means wait forever, and it lets go of the GIL while still holding the lease lock with the row marker live. The grid records these as clean, but only because the test server acknowledges immediately — the test setup is what makes them safe, not the code.

M4 — The Arrow schema is read once from the first slice and reused for all the others. Two agents. _client.pyx:6533-6534 only calls get_schema when c_schema.release == NULL, so slice 5's data array gets paired with slice 0's schema. The Rust preflight only cross-checks structural things like array counts and lengths; it does not verify that the schema's column types match the buffer widths in the array. This is fine for pyarrow, polars and pandas. But the PR explicitly says hand-rolled producers (nanoarrow, DuckDB, arro3) are in scope, and the forged-input test harness _RawArrowStream has no .slice method — so the sliced code path is never tested against the very producers it claims to defend against.

M5 — The UUID and LONG256 read paths never check value_stride. egress.pxi:1451,1464-1465 and 1497,1502 read a fixed 16 or 32 bytes per row. The geohash function right next to them does check (:1401-1405), and so does the C++ reference wrapper (qwp_reader.hpp:1765,1796). _numpy_long256_chunk is new in this PR.

M6 — The precision >= 1 check in _numpy_geohash_chunk can never fire. egress.pxi:1385-1399, with precision declared as unsigned int at :1364. When precision is 0, the first branch fails because of >= 1, and then the second branch succeeds because 0 is less than 15 — so the column is read as int16 instead of hitting the error you wrote. The knock-on effect matters: the column then carries precision_bits: 0, and every claim reader treats 0 as "no precision given" (meta.get('precision_bits') or 0, then 1 <= bits). So the geohash claim is thrown away and the column is written back as a plain SHORT — which is the exact thing the claim system exists to prevent.

M7 — A badly-written claim is thrown away without a word, while the same mistake in schema_overrides raises. _roundtrip_kind (dataframe.pxi:375-381) returns None for anything that is not a dict, and every caller — including the code that emits the "we dropped your claim" notice (:441) — skips on None. So writing df.attrs['questdb'] = {'version': 1, 'columns': {'pos': ('geohash', 20)}} sends the column as a LONG with no warning at all, while the equivalent mistake in schema_overrides raises TypeError. Staying quiet when a column has been renamed or dropped is right — that is the drift the claim is meant to ride out. Staying quiet when someone hand-wrote the claim in the wrong shape is not, and this PR added _log_roundtrip_claim_dropped for the neighbouring case for exactly that reason.

M8 — _column_ipv4 runs a Python function call for every single cell. _client.pyx:1705 does <uint32_t>int(value), and IPv4Address.__int__ is written in Python. Measured: 210.0 ns per cell against 133.2 ns for Char — about 75 ns extra, roughly 60% on top of a ~120 ns cell. _is_ipv4_address has already confirmed type(value) is _IPV4_ADDRESS for the common case, so reading the _ip slot directly (and falling back to int(value) for subclasses) costs about 15 ns.

M9 — Geohash values are strictly checked one at a time and not checked at all in bulk. Geohash(32, 5) raises, but schema_overrides={'pos': ('geohash', 5)} over a column containing 32 writes a wrong location for every row, into a table that write creates. To be clear, this is not a regression — the native check did not exist at BASE either, and you have documented it thoroughly in the PR body, docs/sender.rst:352-367 and docs/troubleshooting.rst:120-142. My point is only about the shape: the strict check already exists in the same module, and the bulk path gives the caller no way to ask for it (no validate=True, no strict variant).


Minor

  • Char accepts lone surrogates (_client.pyx:879-906), while the same character is rejected as a VARCHAR. Captured off the wire: Char('\udfff') sends 16 00 10 00 ff df.
  • The overflow message suggests a fix that also fails. For a value of 2**256 or more on QWP, it tells you to wrap it in Long256(...), which rejects it too (_client.pyx:1765-1775).
  • schema_overrides quietly ignores the second tuple element for kinds that do not take one('uuid', 16) is accepted and the 16 is dropped (:6598-6603).
  • A misspelled column name in schema_overrides is not caught on an empty frame. if total_rows == 0: return True (:7389) comes before the name lookup, so a typo is a hard error on a normal frame and does nothing at all on an empty one.
  • Buffer.__len__ says it is "equivalent to len(bytes(buffer))", which is not true for QWP buffers — I measured len=28 against bytes_len=0. This PR is what added that cross-reference and the mid-row wording.
  • A five-line comment describing _ATTRS_OVERRIDE_KINDS ended up sitting on top of _CLOSE_LEASE_WAIT_LIMIT_S (:6973-6987). The dict it describes is 33 lines further down with no comment on it.
  • CHANGELOG.rst:260 says "True is still refused everywhere", which is not the case. I checked: TimestampMicros(True) gives TimestampMicros(1), and TimestampNanos behaves the same. The four new wrapper classes do refuse it correctly.
  • examples.manifest.yaml:179 and system_test.py:3600 both say the dataframe example writes "the same column types" as the row example, but it has no BINARY column. Six types, not seven.
  • The two copies of SchemaOverrides have already drifted: Tuple[str, int] in _client.pyx:1074 against Tuple[str, SupportsIndex] in _client.pyi:530. Nothing references the .pyx copies of any of the three aliases.
  • The non-dict branch of _validate_schema_overrides (:6580-6584) can never run — Cython 3's annotation checking rejects a non-dict before your message is reached.
  • _column_decimal is the one row path that still hands an already-encoded name to another function (:1622-1626). It is safe today, but the test that guards this rule only looks at function signatures, so it would not notice if serialize_decimal_py_obj ever started running Python.
  • PyWeakref_GetRef is declared in a way that cannot report failure (:1972); a -1 return would read as true and then dereference NULL. Not reachable today.
  • QuestDB.dataframe and Sender.dataframe declare a dataframe_plan_t without calling dataframe_plan_release in their own finally — they are the only pair relying on the function they call to do it.
  • _enter_call_locked's docstring says "every public method of this class counts", but five do not: poll_error, error_events_dropped, published_fsn, acked_fsn and __len__.
  • UUID row encoding only works on little-endian machines — the bswap64 at :1690-1691 is unconditional. This matches an assumption the whole project already makes and predates this PR; the wheels are all little-endian anyway.

Coverage gaps

Critical — the rows_left = True branch in SenderTransaction.commit() has exactly one way to be reached, and no test reaches it. See _client.pyx:1288-1327. The comment lists three situations, but commit() rules out two of them before it ever gets there: :1273 handles "sender is closed" and :1283 handles "a row is half-written". I confirmed that the first one really does cover it — _close() (:10711-10733) sets _impl to NULL and _buffer to None in one go with no Python running in between, so flush's own "sender is closed" check can never be the one that fires. That leaves only _check_not_in_own_callback, meaning a commit() called from inside the sender's own handler, and nothing tests that. test_a_commit_that_cannot_flush_leaves_the_transaction_open is named after this branch but is turned away by the line-1283 guard before the try block starts. This branch decides whether a failed commit leaves the transaction open or finished, so if it ever flips, commit() would mark the transaction done while its rows are still sitting in the buffer, and the next ordinary flush would send them outside the transaction. The fixture you need already exists at test.py:1512 — adding txn.commit() to it would close this.

Moderate:

  • The three matrix suites record their own answers. --update rewrites the expected file straight from the implementation (claim_matrix.py:459-462 and the two siblings), so what they actually assert is "this has not changed", never "this is right". A wrong answer recorded once stays the expected answer. On top of that, qwp_wire.py only decodes the frame header and the (column name, type tag) list — it never reads a value byte, so the claim grid's 630 cells check type tags only.
  • The grids do not run on pull requests. .github/workflows/grids.yml is schedule plus workflow_dispatch, and a scheduled workflow runs against the default branch, on macOS only. What actually gates the PR is two tests that read the checked-in JSON file.
  • 480 of the concurrency grid's 623 cells are unreachable. 60 of the 89 members are unreachable in all 7 states — that is the whole Buffer, Sender and SenderTransaction surface. Real coverage is 143 cells over 29 members. Neither meta-test notices, because unreachable is an answer and it can never be a hang or a crash.
  • The claim grid's list of kinds is wrong in both directions. 'binary' is not a kind at all, so its 140 cells measure the same thing as not_a_kind (0 differences across all 70 combinations). Meanwhile 'date' is a kind, has real reshaping logic behind it, and has no cells.
  • drive_once is unguarded and all 11 of its grid cells look green for the wrong reason — every one is refused for configuration reasons, because no scenario builds a qwp_ws_progress=manual sender.
  • The re-entrancy grid never fires from inside _dataframe's per-cell loop, which is the exact situation dataframe.pxi:3905-3915 describes. All four dataframe scenarios hook in before the marker is set. The guards do hold there today — I checked — but the grid does not prove it.
  • 60-bit geohash is untested on the columnar path. The width test stops at int32, and the grid feeds geohash an int32 column, so all 24 geohash(60b) cells are really measuring a drop to LONG.
  • schema_overrides is not tested across all three entry points. PooledSender.dataframe has no schema_overrides tests at all, and Sender.dataframe over ws:: has no positive one.
  • Nothing checks that _row_depth unwinds after an exception. Every test that follows a failed row() calls row() again, and row() is not guarded against itself, so a leaked depth would slip through.
  • Non-empty BINARY is never checked byte-for-byte on the row path — the strong wire test uses b''.
  • IPV4, BINARY and CHAR have no system test of their own on either path.

Things I checked that turned out to be fine

What was suspected Why it turned out not to be a problem
A nested row() from inside a cell conversion leaves half a row behind (this was my own theory) The native set_marker refuses while a line is being built, so the inner call fails before _marker_set = True and before _row_depth += 1. I reproduced it; four agents reached the same conclusion separately.
arg_int is read before being set in _validate_schema_overrides There is an arg_int = 0 just above the branch chain, at _client.pyx:6602.
The TypeErrorQuestDBError change is undocumented CHANGELOG.rst:84-85 spells it out.
max_rows_per_batch >= 2**63 wraps to a negative number and hangs It really does hang — I reproduced it with a 20-second watchdog, no frames sent, main thread spinning in pandas. But the loop, the variable declarations, the validation and _capsule_slice_rows are all byte-for-byte identical at BASE, so this PR did not cause it. See the note below.
Moving the name encoding into each helper slowed down the hot path It comes out even: one _cleared_b() and one str_to_column_name per cell on every branch, same as BASE. Confirmed in the generated C.
_column_int converts the integer twice The generated C shows one conversion per branch, and QWP int and float cells measure the same within noise.
The new Arrow preflight adds a per-row pass The preflight is on the Rust side. The new Cython checks are per-column, per-chunk.
The submodule bump left a .pxd out of step with a header Full mechanical comparison of 333 header declarations against 217 .pxd declarations: types, argument counts, const, struct field order and enum numbers all match.

One pre-existing bug, not caused by this PR, but worth its own issue. max_rows_per_batch is a size_t but is only validated with <= 0, which on an unsigned type means == 0. It is then narrowed to a signed Py_ssize_t at _client.pyx:7447 with no check. Any value from 2**63 up gives a negative chunk size. With pandas, iloc[0:-2**63] returns an empty frame without complaining, so the loop never moves forward — a genuine hang that sends nothing while holding _call_uses, which also means a concurrent close() sits there for the full 60 seconds before erroring. With pyarrow you get a bare IndexError instead. The equivalent NumPy path does clamp, at 1,000,000 (_dataframe_columnar_rows_per_chunk:3389); this loop is the only one that does not.


Summary

Requesting changes.

I want to be clear that this is careful, well-thought-out work. The rewrite that moves column-name encoding into each helper is correct on every path I traced. The .pxd declarations match the newly pinned headers exactly. The nogil audit came back empty. The re-entrancy guards hold everywhere they are applied. 1033 tests and three grids pass. None of the blocking problems are in the new column types themselves.

Three things block merge:

  • C1: the new per-handle thread-local slot caps the process at about 500 handles, and combined with the already-documented leak path, it can put a process into a state where connect() never works again. New in this PR, and I reproduced it.
  • C2: the dispatch check compares callback functions that are shared between handles, so a change that used to just skip a wait now raises and stops unrelated handles from closing. New in this PR, and I reproduced it.
  • C3: the submodule pin changes what UUID bytes mean without changing the function signature, and nothing anywhere would catch a wrong pin. That turns the "refresh the gitlink before merge" step you already planned into something that can silently corrupt data.

There is also one critical test gap: the commit() branch that decides whether rows end up inside or outside a transaction has a single way to be reached and no test reaching it.

Worth knowing about, though not blocking: _column_ipv4 costs about 75 ns more per cell (~60% on top of the baseline cell); the three grids that drove this review do not run on pull requests and only run on macOS; and the concurrency grid's 623 cells are 143 in substance.

Tests: proj.py test — 1033 passed, 28 skipped, exit 0; 32 Rust tests pass; all three grids pass with current tables. Run with the project venv, not the system python3.
Submodule: off the default branch (fd43b471 is not on main).
Tally: 33 findings kept, 8 dropped after checking them, 1 reproduced bug left out because it predates this PR.
Where they are: 30 inside the diff, 3 outside it (the schema-reuse across slices, the _column_decimal situation, and the PyWeakref_GetRef declaration). The cross-context pass did run; the low outside-the-diff count is genuine, because the changed contracts have very few outside callers — the 17 _column_* helpers have exactly two.


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Review of PR #140 — level 3 (full pass)

BASE=46819463 · HEAD=b81c1e55 · 45 files, +30826/−1330


Critical

C1 — merge the tandem C client PR first

Tandem PR: questdb/c-questdb-client#195

Then update C client submodule here.


Moderate

M1 — date is the only claim kind that gets dropped without telling anyone. In-diff.

The "this claim was dropped" notice at _client.pyx:5931-5952 only fires for kinds listed in _ATTRS_OVERRIDE_KINDS (:7074), and date is not one of them. That is deliberate — DATE is restored by reshaping the column in _dataframe_normalize_claimed_date (:5684) rather than by an override. But that function's two "cannot do it" paths are bare continue statements that say nothing. What I measured:

frame what happened
{'kind':'char'} on int64 WARNING questdb: column 'd' carries a df.attrs['questdb'] claim of kind 'char', which a column of type int64 cannot carry…
{'kind':'date'} on int64 column goes out as LONG — no error, no warning, no log line
{'kind':'date'} on datetime64[us] column goes out as TIMESTAMP — nothing

The normal cases do work: both timestamp[ms] and datetime64[ms] reach DATE. You need a unit mismatch to hit this. What makes it a bug rather than a choice is that the row-by-row route already treats date as worth a notice — _row_route_drops_roundtrip_kind (dataframe.pxi:415) returns True for it. So the column-at-a-time route is the only place DATE is let through quietly, and nothing in the code says why. Adding a _log_roundtrip_claim_dropped call to those two continues would close it.

M2 — A column that is all nulls and claimed as date disappears from the write. In-diff.

_dataframe_claim_all_null_source (_client.pyx:5764) rescues an all-null object column for the five override kinds, and returns without doing anything for everything else. What I measured:

all-null 'date' claim + data col -> {'k':'LONG', '':'TIMESTAMP_NANOS'}     # 'c' is missing, nothing said
all-null 'ipv4' claim + data col -> {'c':'IPV4','k':'LONG', '':'TIMESTAMP_NANOS'}
all-null 'date' claim, only col  -> UnsupportedDataFrameShapeError: v1 requires at least one
                                    non-timestamp data column

A column you handed the client never reaches the server, and the table it creates does not have that column — which is the exact outcome the function's own docstring says the claim exists to prevent. If the claimed column is the only data column, the whole frame is refused with a shape error that never mentions the claim.

M3 — PooledSender.row now costs about 114 ns more per row. In-diff.

_enter_call_locked does not exist at all in the base version. In this PR, PooledSender.row calls it at :11151 and _exit_call_locked at :11187, once for every row. Each pair reads a threading.local attribute twice and does a dictionary get, set and delete.

Measured at 114 ns with a Cython copy of the exact code (best of 7, three separate processes). I checked the magnitude separately in plain Python and got 238 ns for the same sequence, with the threading.local read alone at 61 ns and paid twice — same ballpark.

For scale, against the cost of building the row itself that is roughly half for a one-column row, about a third at three columns, and about a tenth at ten columns. The guard it buys is worth having, so the fix is not to remove it. _enter_call_locked and _exit_call_locked run in the same function under the same lock, so the enter can look the dictionary up once and hand it to the exit. That removes one of the two attribute reads, roughly 30% of the added cost.

M4 — The LONG256 DataFrame builder costs 60.3 ns per row where the plain number path costs 3.2 ns. In-diff.

At _client.pyx:4155-4167 each row does two Python comparisons (18.2 ns, the second against a 256-bit number) and then int.to_bytes(v, 32, 'little') plus a memcpy (40.5 ns) — which allocates and frees a 32-byte bytes object per row. A single _PyLong_AsByteArray(v, buf + i*32, 32, little=1, signed=0) writes straight into the destination and reports overflow at the same time, replacing both halves for roughly 8-10 ns. Over 10 million rows that is 0.60 s versus 0.10 s.

The UUID builder at :4339 has the same shape at 47.7 ns per row. On the row-by-row path, _column_uuid at :1676 is the only per-cell allocation, at 36.5 ns, which is 19% of the cost of a UUID cell.

M5 — For every kind except geohash, the second item in a ('kind', value) tuple is thrown away. In-diff.

At _client.pyx:6666-6694 the code unpacks value and then never looks at it on five of the six branches. I sent these through a mock server and decoded the frame:

{'u':'uuid'}           -> [('u','UUID'), ...]
{'u':('uuid',16)}      -> [('u','UUID'), ...]
{'u':('uuid',999999)}  -> [('u','UUID'), ...]
{'u':('uuid','junk')}  -> [('u','UUID'), ...]

Every other malformed entry in that same function is caught right away — ('geohash', 0) raises ValueError, an unknown kind raises ValueError. Raising when value is not None and kind != 'geohash' would make this consistent.

M6 — Column names in schema_overrides are only checked when the frame has rows. In-diff.

if total_rows == 0: return True at _client.pyx:7455-7457 runs before the overrides are assembled, and the name check happens on the Rust side. What I measured:

1-row frame, {'nosuchcol':'uuid'} -> QuestDBError: override targets unknown column 'nosuchcol'
0-row frame, same                 -> accepted, nothing said

The kind and the geohash bits are checked eagerly even on an empty frame; only the name is not. So a typo passes if the first batch happens to be empty and then fails later with real data. The QuestDB.dataframe docstring at :8491-8494 says "Unknown column names are rejected" with no qualification.

M7 — The type stub says schema_overrides is quietly ignored on ILP. It actually raises. In-diff.

_client.pyi:1943-1945 and _client.pyx:10269-10271 both say "max_rows_per_batch and schema_overrides do not apply on those protocols". I ran it on udp:: and http:: and got QuestDBError: schema_overrides is applied when a frame is written a column at a time…. The same docstring gets it right 40 lines earlier at _client.pyx:10228-10229, where it says "raises". max_rows_per_batch really is ignored silently, so one sentence is describing two different behaviours as if they were the same.

M8 — An empty schema_overrides dict raises on ILP but is accepted on WebSocket. In-diff.

The guard at _client.pyx:10340 tests is not None, but _validate_schema_overrides at :6646 returns early on if not schema_overrides. So {} raises on udp:: and http:: and is fine on ws::. Anyone who builds the dict in code and happens to end up with nothing in it loses the ability to switch protocols. Changing the guard to if schema_overrides: fixes it.

M9 — The re-entrancy and concurrency grids do not run on pull requests. Out-of-diff (CI).

.github/workflows/grids.yml runs on a schedule and on manual dispatch only, on macos-15, and its own header says "Deliberately not a pull-request gate". On GitHub, the only things that run on pull_request are the secret scan and a wheel build. ci/run_tests_pipeline.yaml starts with trigger: none, so the repo cannot show what actually gates the PR. Assuming the branch policy fires it, the claim grid runs on one leg (:158) and the other two grids on none. The meta-tests in test.py that claim to check the grids read the checked-in JSON file rather than running anything.

There is a second half to this. --update in all three suites (claim_matrix.py:460, concurrency_matrix.py:664, reentrancy_matrix.py:840) writes the current run straight into the expected file, so the only outcomes judged on their own merits are hangs and crashes. That has already cost something real: git show 66b03f0 -- test/reentrancy_matrix_expected.json shows two cells changing from refused to clean in the same commit as the fix "make transaction rollback terminal". The grid was holding the buggy behaviour as the expected answer and passing against it.

The cell counts also overstate things: concurrency exercises 143 of 623 cells (77% unreachable), re-entrancy 517 of 1246 (58% unreachable), and PooledReader and QueryResult are on the allow-list in both.

The reasoning for the tradeoff is written down and it is sensible — a gate that slow gets ignored — and the behaviours themselves do have ordinary unit tests in the suite that does gate. That is why this is Moderate rather than Critical. But it does mean a regression in the guards this PR rewrote would go green.

M10 — CHAR, IPV4 and GEOHASH values are never checked on the wire on the column-at-a-time path. Out-of-diff (tests).

test/qwp_wire.py decodes the frame header and the list of (name, type tag) pairs. It never reads a value byte. So all 630 claim-grid cells are checking a type tag, not an encoding.

The row-by-row path is well covered — test.py:3499-3508 pins the exact bytes for all seven types, including a negative DATE and a LONG256 with the top bit set. On the column-at-a-time path, BINARY, UUID and LONG256 all have real byte checks (the BINARY one at test.py:2911-2980 is the most thorough test in the PR). CHAR, IPV4 and GEOHASH have only the type tag. DATE is checked by comparing one planner against the other, with no pre-epoch value anywhere. A 60-bit GEOHASH is sent and the payload thrown away. And non-empty BINARY is never checked byte-for-byte on the row path — only b'' is.

M11 — Twenty tests call _dataframe_wire_payload and discard the result. Out-of-diff (tests).

Found by walking the syntax tree. Four of them are named after something they never look at. The clearest is test.py:4850-4860 test_unchecked_geohash_honours_arrow_field_metadata: it would pass unchanged if the field metadata were ignored completely and the column went out as INT. Same for test_a_full_width_geohash_claim_reaches_its_top_values and ..._span_the_signed_widths, which is the 60-bit case.

M12 — schema_overrides has no test on PooledSender.dataframe. Out-of-diff (tests).

grep -rn "schema_overrides" test/ | grep -i "pooled\|lease" finds nothing. That is one of the three entry points the PR advertises.

M13 — On an ILP buffer, the "Unsupported type" message lists nine types that same buffer refuses. In-diff.

_client.pyx:1939 prints the whole list no matter which protocol the buffer is for. On Buffer(2):

Unsupported type: set. Must be one of: … bytes, bytearray, memoryview, uuid.UUID,
ipaddress.IPv4Address, Char, DateMillis, Long256, Geohash
→ then: QuestDBError: UUID columns require a QWP sender …

Someone reads the first message, reaches for uuid.UUID, and gets the second. The buffer already knows which kind it is, through self._qwp. In the base version the list stopped at decimal.Decimal and was accurate.

M14 — The test guarding the column-name rule does not cover the one function that needs it. Out-of-diff (tests).

test.py:6972 test_no_column_helper_takes_a_pre_encoded_name matches only cdef … void_int _column_\w+(…). serialize_decimal_py_obj (dataframe.pxi:3319) is the one function on the row path that takes an already-encoded line_sender_column_name across a function boundary. It is safe as written, because its body runs no Python at all — and this PR is what puts the row path through it. If someone later adds a Python-level conversion in there, the encoded name becomes stale and this test still passes.


Minor

  • SchemaOverrides says two different things: Tuple[str, int] in _client.pyx:1066 and Tuple[str, SupportsIndex] in _client.pyi:530. The stub is the accurate one. All three aliases in the .pyx (SchemaOverrides, RowColumnValue, TransactionColumnValue) are never referenced anywhere, and the three dataframe() signatures spell the type a third way, as Optional[Dict[str, object]].
  • The comment describing _ATTRS_OVERRIDE_KINDS (_client.pyx:7028-7040) now sits directly above _CLOSE_LEASE_WAIT_LIMIT_S, and the dictionary it describes is 34 lines below with no comment. New in this PR — _CLOSE_LEASE_WAIT_LIMIT_S does not exist in the base version.
  • The TypeError for a non-dict in _validate_schema_overrides (:6648-6652) can never run. Cython's own argument check rejects it first: Argument 'schema_overrides' has incorrect type (expected dict, got list).
  • Buffer.__len__ says it is the same as len(bytes(buffer)). On a QWP buffer I measured len=28 against bytes_len=0. This wording predates the PR, but the PR edited that docstring without fixing it.
  • An object column holding [5, True] is accepted as LONG with no claim, and refused with Bad column 'v' at row 1: expected int, got bool under a long256 claim. The comment in _dataframe_columnar_build_int_pyobj states a "matches row-path" rule that the long256 builder does not follow.
  • _RoundtripClaim can still be changed through dict.update(claim, …), even though its docstring says "every way dict offers to change its contents raises here". __deepcopy__ returns self, so the change shows up in every copy of the frame.
  • The little-endian byte order of Long256 is stated in exactly one place on the Python surface (_client.pyx:8421), while UUID's big-endian change got a 25-line changelog entry. Any 32 bytes are a valid LONG256, so getting the order wrong stores a reversed value and nothing ever fails — which is the same failure the UUID entry spends 25 lines warning about.
  • Geohash is the only one of the wrapper classes with no .value, and from_string() has nothing to turn a value back into a string.
  • _debug_set_close_lease_wait_limit_s (which changes a module-level global) and _debug_numpy_force_pin (which writes into reader state) are compiled into the shipped wheel.

Worth its own issue (not caused by this PR)

Two problems that already existed, which this PR's neighbourhood makes easy to see:

  1. A standalone QWP/WebSocket error handler can quietly lose rows. Tracked in #151. The handler runs on the same thread that called flush(), while Rust is still holding a reference to the buffer. _check_not_in_own_callback covers flush and close but not Buffer.clear, Buffer.row, Sender.row or Sender.dataframe. I reproduced both shapes: appending from the handler grew the buffer from 434 to 780,459 bytes underneath the live borrow, and clearing from the handler made flush() return success after publishing two unrelated rows instead of the fifty it was given. The PR's own test at test.py:1632 lists exactly published_fsn, acked_fsn, drive_once, flush, close and leaves out everything that writes to the buffer.

  2. max_rows_per_batch is a size_t checked only with <= 0, which on an unsigned type means "is it zero". It is then narrowed to a signed Py_ssize_t at _client.pyx:7447 with no check, so anything from 2**63 up gives a negative chunk size and hangs. The NumPy path clamps at 1,000,000 (:3389); this loop does not.


Summary

Requesting changes, only because of C1, the off-main-branch submodule pin, which the PR description already flags as a merge gate. Nothing in the code itself came out Critical.

What got slower and what got safer. One measured per-row cost (M3, about 114 ns on PooledSender.row, entirely new — the base version has no _enter_call_locked), paid for the re-entrancy guarantee, and two avoidable per-row allocations (M4). Against that, this PR fixes a real hazard that was there before: the base version encoded the column name once in _column and then passed it into helpers that go on to run Python — datetime_to_micros calls the caller's tzinfo.utcoffset(), and the Decimal path runs Python too — and the base version's row-by-row _dataframe shared the Buffer's string storage, so a cell's own Python calling clear() freed the storage the plan was still reading names out of. Both are closed here.

Tests. venv/bin/python3 proj.py test gives 1037 passed, 28 skipped, exit 0, plus 32 Rust tests, and all three grids pass against the current tables. Two separate runs, matching counts. One caveat: that was run against the working tree's b80b605, not the fd43b471 the PR pins — worth re-running once the gitlink is refreshed. Also note that 214 integration tests are not collected at all without TEST_QUESTDB_INTEGRATION=1, and 5 of the 7 CI legs then skip the QWP row-type classes in setUp.

Submodule: off the main branch (fd43b471 is not an ancestor of origin/main).


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glasstiger added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The UUID / fixed-size-binary notes were written into the published
5.0.0 section, which rewrites the history of a shipped release. That
change is owned by #140, which documents it under a new 5.1.0
"Breaking changes" heading. Leave 5.0.0 describing 5.0.0.

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glasstiger added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
The branch changes UUID bytes to canonical RFC 4122, requires the
arrow.uuid label for a 16-byte column to be a UUID, and drops the
fixed_size_binary(32) to LONG256 mapping -- schema changes against an
existing table, not just encoding changes. None of it was documented:
the changelog text describing it was removed in 0d7d049 pending #140.
Adds a Breaking changes section with migration steps and moves the
heading to 5.1.0, which should also reduce the conflict with #140.

Separately, sender.rst stated OidcError always carries AuthError. It
mirrors the native classification and can be SocketError or
ConfigError -- as auth.rst already says correctly -- and a reader
following sender.rst would mis-handle the retryable case, which is the
whole point of that distinction.

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Level-3 review — #140 and native #195

Reviewed Python commit a204d8ecab093565f28a3d59317a176ccbc0ab6e together with c-questdb-client #195 at a18ac0c9f98164e4db6131dd515cb1afa17ebcf8.

Verdict: approve with comments for both PRs. No blocking bugs were confirmed.

Follow-up status

Findings 1 and 2 are addressed. Finding 3 remains open as a minor documentation issue. The original review and evidence below are retained for context.

Both fixes are test-only. Follow-up validation passed: 1,039 Python tests completed (28 skipped), 32 Rust-helper tests, and 2,466 native core tests (24 ignored). Rust formatting and feature-enabled Clippy checks also passed. The full original review matrix was not repeated for these test-only changes.

Moderate — missing test checks (addressed)

1. [ADDRESSED] [Native] The reconnect test can miss a bad retry flag

Fixed in ffe6f93b. Added flush_polars_dataframe_failure_before_replay_keeps_call_status. It checks the primary's 64-frame committed prefix, successful reconnect, and BatchTooLarge with in_doubt=true when the replacement cannot fit the next row. No successful replay can hide a lost flag. The original reconnect test is retained.

questdb-rs/src/tests/qwp_sender_pool.rs:8605–8632

The client must remember when part of a DataFrame has already been sent. If a later batch fails, in_doubt=true warns the caller that sending the whole DataFrame again could duplicate earlier rows.

The existing reconnect test sends more batches on the replacement connection before failing. Those sends set the flag again, so the test can pass even if reconnecting incorrectly clears the record of earlier sends.

I changed the code in a temporary worktree to clear that record after reconnecting. All 2,465 existing core tests still passed.

A stronger test reconnects successfully, but the replacement server's smaller frame limit rejects the next batch before anything else is sent. I tested this with 130 strings of 4,096 bytes, one row per batch, and a replacement frame limit of 2,048 bytes. The primary mock captured 64 frames and acknowledged the checkpoint.

Version Result
Reviewed head BatchTooLarge, in_doubt=true — correct
PR base BatchTooLarge, in_doubt=false
Head changed to forget earlier sends BatchTooLarge, in_doubt=false

The current code is correct. Add this test so a future change cannot silently lose the warning about earlier rows. The existing failed-authentication test covers a different case: there, reconnecting never succeeds.

2. [ADDRESSED] [Python] The close-timeout test does not check that rows arrive

Fixed in bfd26cf. The test now disables auto-flush, captures payloads with commit-aware acknowledgements, and checks that no rows are sent before the lease returns. After closing, it asserts one two-row frame with values [1, 2] and timestamps [1, 2], in order, and no server errors. This commit also updates the native submodule pin.

test/test.py:6564–6607

The test writes one row, lets QuestDB.close() time out while a sender is still borrowed, writes another row, then returns the sender and finishes closing. It checks the errors and handle states, but never checks whether the server received either row.

Enable payload capture and disable auto-flush, then assert that returning the sender delivers both rows with the expected values and timestamps.

I ran that stronger check on the reviewed head: both rows arrived correctly. This is missing regression protection, not a current data-loss bug. The normal-close delivery tests do not cover the state after a close timeout.

Minor

3. [OPEN] [Python] The docs promise no warning, but a warning is logged

src/questdb/egress.pxi:2692–2699

The to_pandas() docstring says that a custom type mapper can make a saved column-type claim unusable and that the claim is then dropped “with nothing said.” Ingestion actually logs a questdb warning.

I reproduced the documented IPV4-to-float case: the column is sent as DOUBLE and a warning is logged. The same input at the Python base sends DOUBLE without a warning. The new warning is useful; update the docstring to describe it.

Original review validation and scope

Local checks passed at the originally reviewed revisions:

  • Python extension build; 1,039 Python tests completed, with 28 skipped; 32 Rust-helper tests passed.
  • All three grids: 630 claim cases, 1,246 re-entrancy cases, and 623 concurrency cases matched their expected results.
  • 2,465 native core tests, the enabled integration/doc targets, and 149 FFI tests passed.
  • Eight rebuilt C/C++ test targets passed.
  • Rust formatting checks, the Arrow dependency-lock check, and native documentation checks passed.
  • The additional checks described above ran in temporary worktrees or scratch files.

No local live-server, sanitizer, or full platform-matrix run was performed. At the review's CI check, native #195 was green; some Python #140 jobs were still running or queued. Remote CI results are separate from the local checks above.

The native commit is not yet on main, so its changes were reviewed fully alongside the Python bindings. Both PRs were compared with their merge bases: Python 46819463, native 4123776a.

Ten review roles and independent follow-up checks produced three retained findings: two non-blocking test gaps and one documentation mismatch. No confirmed bug in an unchanged caller remained after the cross-repository checks. Project sources were left unchanged.

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Review #140 — level 3

Reviewed 46819463f426fe39.

Approve with comments. No blocking runtime bug was confirmed.

Minor

1. Qualify the all-null-column promise — in-diff

src/questdb/_client.pyx:8554–8559 says that a saved type claim makes every all-null column get written with that type. That is too broad.

I captured what the client sends. An all-null object column claimed as DATE is left out. The same column with datetime64[ms] is written as DATE. The general all-null handling covers only UUID, LONG256, IPV4, CHAR, and GEOHASH.

List those five types and explain DATE separately. This is a new promise in the docs that the code does not fully meet, not a new data-loss bug. The base version did not make this promise.

Coverage gaps

2. Moderate: test override forwarding through both sender surfaces — in-diff

src/questdb/_client.pyx:10337,11237

The UUID/LONG256 override tests check QuestDB.dataframe(), but no positive test checks the same arguments through WebSocket Sender.dataframe() or PooledSender.dataframe().

Search: rg -n 'schema_overrides' test --glob '*.py'.

I checked both methods by capturing their output:

  • With overrides, they send UUID and LONG256 columns with the correct bytes.
  • Without overrides, both columns are sent as BINARY.

The code works today. Add these checks to the test suite. If either method stops passing schema_overrides through, the tests should catch it before the client starts creating columns with the wrong types.

Downgraded

Nine other possible problems were checked and left out:

  • All-null DATE runtime regression: leaving out an object-dtype null column already happened before this PR. The changelog limits the new rescue behavior to five types (CHANGELOG.rst:202–206).
  • Sender’s pandas-only stub: the type annotation was already narrower than the inputs the method accepts (_client.pyi:1894).
  • Claim mutation through unbound dict methods: calling a base-class mutator directly deliberately bypasses the protection. That is outside the promised protection for ordinary edits (dataframe.pxi:296–332).
  • Non-GEOHASH tuple arguments: accepting and ignoring the extra argument follows the existing validation rules (_client.pyx:6661–6707).
  • Buffer’s alleged direct-columnar promise: the word “it” refers to Sender.dataframe, not Buffer. The paragraph is correct (_client.pyx:2227–2233).
  • Failed pooled close contaminates the next lease: returning a sender after failure is not new. The native pool also removes senders marked must_close instead of lending them out again (db.rs:2999–3036).
  • UUID subclass corruption: a UUID’s .int attribute defines its observable value, so reading that attribute is correct (_client.pyx:1666–1684).
  • Pooled dataframe refusal during closing: the same delegation and refusal existed before this PR. No new behavior was established (_client.pyx:11219–11240).
  • Big-endian UUID corruption: the native library already refuses to compile for big-endian targets (column_sender/mod.rs:143–147).

Validation and summary

These checks passed:

  • Extension build and documentation build.
  • 1,041 Python tests run, 28 skipped, plus 32 Rust-helper tests.
  • All three grids matched their saved expectations.
  • 2,466 native core tests, the enabled integration and documentation tests, and 149 FFI tests.
  • The Arrow dependency-lock check and the extra output-capture checks described above.

I did not run a live QuestDB server, sanitizers, or the full platform matrix. Project sources were left unchanged.

Two findings kept: one minor documentation issue and one moderate test gap. Both are in the changed code or docs. A second, wider check of callers outside the diff found no confirmed breakage.

The native pin, ffe6f93b, is OFF-DEFAULT: it is not on the native repository’s default branch. Its changes were included in this review.

The existing merge requirement still applies: merge native #195, update this PR’s pin to the resulting mainline commit, and rerun the final matrix before merging.

glasstiger added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
Review of this PR alongside c-questdb-client#183, and bumps the submodule
to that PR's review fixes.

connect()'s except handler no longer imports questdb.auth._errors to test
for OidcError. The import ran on every QuestDBError from from_conf, and
one that raised -- during finalization, through a blocked sys.modules
entry, or via a shadowed stdlib name on the questdb.auth chain -- would
replace the connect error the caller needs. It also pulled the whole auth
package, and unicodedata / re / ipaddress / urllib.parse behind it, into
every failed connect. An OidcError cannot exist unless the module is
already imported, so sys.modules answers the question without one.

The half-built-module guard now checks every class the error paths
resolve, not just OidcError. OidcError is defined first in _errors.py, so
the entire partial-import window it exists to reject sat inside its
accept region, and a later attribute read would raise AttributeError over
the failure being reported. _oidc_errors_module also gained the global
declaration its cache write needed; without it the write was a dead
store, and with it alone the partial module would have been cached
permanently rather than self-healing.

FileTokenStore.at_default_location now reads HOME / USERPROFILE and
requires it absolute, mirroring native's home_dir(). expanduser('~')
resolved a path through its pwd fallback in exactly the environment where
native refuses, so the two clients named different stores and a
credential cleared through one survived in the other.

A provider re-initialised after a failed build is usable again: close()
latched _closed even on a NULL handle and nothing cleared it, so the
retry _finish_builder explicitly supports was refused everywhere as
"closed". Transports now also distinguish a never-initialised provider
from a closed one, as _require_open already did.

SenderTransaction.commit() raises QuestDBError rather than TypeError when
the sender was closed inside the transaction: close(flush=False) nulls
the buffer without resetting _in_txn, so __exit__ reached len(None) and
the TypeError escaped every except QuestDBError around the block.

Further error-path corrections: OIDC errors carry sender_error through
the OIDC branch of c_err_to_py, which returned before the only producer
of that payload; connection_event_inbox_capacity is capped in Python,
since native validates it only when a listener is registered while the
documentation describes it identically to the error inbox;
schema_overrides rejects an argument for the kinds that take none,
instead of silently dropping it; the PyWeakref_GetRef error branch clears
the exception it sets rather than leaving it pending; and the callback
cancel path releases the GIL like every other native call here.

Providers still registered at interpreter exit are closed through an
atexit hook, which narrows the window in which a Rust-spawned token-store
thread can enter the diagnostic trampoline during finalization.

_safe_link_url rejects IDNA A-labels, matching native's safe_target. This
is the fallback that vets a custom renderer's own response dict, and the
value reaches a browser opener and a QR encoder. The remaining divergence
-- native narrows the plaintext-loopback exemption to the configured IdP,
which this function has no access to -- is documented rather than faked.

SchemaOverride is exported. It named the type of a public dataframe()
parameter while existing only in the stub, so it had to be defined at
runtime for the annotation to be importable at all.

Documented: that freethreading_compatible is deliberately unset and
PYTHON_GIL=0 is unsupported; that the OIDC bindings are correct only
against a statically linked, same-commit libquestdb_client, which is what
makes the unchecked struct_size tail reads safe; that an abandoned
QueryResult now surfaces its ResourceWarning through sys.unraisablehook;
and, in DEV_NOTES, the merge order for a change spanning both repos,
since the native repo squash-merges and the pin must be re-pointed at the
resulting main commit.

The UUID read-path assertion compares canonical bytes rather than
reconstructed integers, so the endianness-portable load is pinned at the
one site a rebase onto #140 would touch.
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