ISqlDialect gains MaxBindParameters — the per-command ceiling the seam was
missing while modelling everything else that differs per backend: 2098 usable
of SQL Server's 2100 (sp_executesql spends two), 1000 for Oracle's IN-list
limit (ORA-01795, tighter than its 64k bind count), 65535 for the Postgres
Bind message.
SqlGroupPlanner.AddKeyValuePlans now emits several plans for one group when
its distinct keys exceed that ceiling, instead of one statement the provider
refuses after the connection opened — which left every tag in an EAV group
publishing BadCommunicationError on every poll, permanently, and reported the
database endpoint as down. Chunks share the group key; members follow their
own key so a shared keyValue never splits. SqlPollReader is unchanged: it runs
one command per plan and slices each plan's own Members back, proven by a
fixture read at a ceiling of 1.
NAMEDATALEN-1 (63) and Oracle 12.2's 128 are byte limits in the database
encoding, not character counts, so a 32-character Cyrillic name passed
ident.Length and was then silently truncated (Postgres) or rejected by the
server (Oracle). Both dialects now measure Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount and say
'bytes' in the rejection. SqlServerDialect deliberately keeps ident.Length —
sysname is nvarchar(128), a real character limit — pinned by a control test.
Three findings from the code review of the dialect seam:
- QuoteIdentifier used char.IsControl, which only covers Unicode category Cc.
Bidi overrides, zero-width spaces, soft hyphen and BOM are category Cf and
passed through untouched. They cannot escape the brackets, so this is not an
injection bypass — but the method rejects control characters precisely to
protect the integrity of logged/audited statements, and Cf characters spoof
rendered text while comparing byte-different from the real catalog name
(Trojan Source, CVE-2021-42574). Same rule, same rationale, wider category.
- The XML docs on both files asserted that identifiers 'are sourced only from
catalog-validated (INFORMATION_SCHEMA) names' and that rejection is 'a
backstop, not the primary defence'. Neither is true yet: design §8.1 does
specify that gate, but nothing implements it and no task in the plan
schedules one, so an authored TagConfig table/column reaches QuoteIdentifier
unfiltered. The docs now say so, because under-scrutinising this method on
the strength of a filter that does not exist is exactly the failure mode.
- The control-character test only pinned NUL, so a regression to a
Contains('\0') check would still have passed. Pinned the whole Cc category
plus the new Cf rule; verified load-bearing by deleting the guard and
observing exactly the 5 new cases go red.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
The dialect owns the two things ADO.NET's System.Data.Common base types
cannot abstract: identifier quoting and the metadata-catalog SQL. It is
the driver's SQL-injection boundary — values always bind as DbParameters,
identifiers cannot, so the few that reach a command text are catalog-
sourced and pass through QuoteIdentifier.
QuoteIdentifier brackets one identifier part and doubles embedded ] (the
only metacharacter that can terminate a bracketed identifier early);
rejects null/empty/whitespace, >128 chars (T-SQL sysname ceiling), and any
control character (incl. NUL) as ArgumentException, without echoing the
untrusted value into the message. MapColumnType folds the design §3.7
families case-insensitively and never throws — an unrecognised family
falls back to String so a browse over an exotic column still renders;
timestamp/rowversion and time are deliberately NOT mapped to DateTime.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
Joseph Doherty