fix(postgres): only send statement_timeout when it changes on the connection

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Outside a transaction, Postgres::execute() sent SET statement_timeout before every statement and RESET statement_timeout after it. Inside a transaction it sent SET LOCAL before every statement. So each query took three round trips, even when the timeout never changed.

• The adapter now remembers the last value it sent on each physical connection, in a static WeakMap keyed by the underlying \PDO. It sends SET only when that value changes, and never sends RESET. Because the map is keyed by the connection, adapters with different timeouts can share it. After a reconnect the new \PDO has no entry yet, and reconnect() also clears the entry for proxies that swap the connection internally.
• Inside a transaction it sends SET LOCAL only when the value differs, then forgets the session value so the next statement outside the transaction sets it again.
• Statements that called ->execute() directly (DDL, bulk update/delete/upsert, exists, getSequences) now go through execute(). Otherwise they would run with a timeout left on the connection by an earlier statement. Without this, testQueryTimeout fails: deleteCollection runs with the leftover 1 ms timeout after clearTimeout(). These statements now follow the adapter timeout, as they already do on MariaDB through SET STATEMENT ... FOR. SQL::execute() is a passthrough, so other SQL adapters are not affected.
• Persistent connections (ATTR_PERSISTENT, the library default) keep the old set/reset behaviour. PHP gives every persistent PDO with the same DSN the same backend, so the value can't be tracked per object.

Session-level SET is still not safe behind PgBouncer in transaction pooling mode. The old code had the same problem.

Verification (pg_stat_statements, 100 reads through the library, non-persistent PDO like Appwrite's pools):

• no timeout: 600 -> 200 statements
• timeout 15000: 600 -> 201
• 100 reads in one transaction: 403 -> 203

A 1 s timeout still cancels pg_sleep(1.5), and a 0 timeout on another adapter sharing the PDO still lets it run, before and after a timeout, inside and after transactions, and after reconnect. The PostgresTest suite passes with both persistent and non-persistent connections, apart from testCacheFallback, which also fails on main in my environment.

Refs appwrite/appwrite#14079

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • PostgreSQL statement timeouts are now managed consistently across regular and persistent connections. Timeout settings are applied when needed and handled around individual statements on persistent connections, helping database operations respect their configured time limits.
  • SQL operations now use the database adapter’s execution path, keeping statement results and failure handling consistent.

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PostgreSQL now tracks statement timeouts by physical connection and applies timeout settings according to connection persistence and transaction state. SQL and PostgreSQL adapters route the covered prepared statements through execute(). The PDO wrapper exposes its underlying connection.

Changes

PostgreSQL execution handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Connection access and timeout tracking src/Database/PDO.php, src/Database/Adapter/Postgres.php, tests/unit/SQLGetDocumentTest.php	PDO::getConnection() returns the underlying connection. PostgreSQL tracks timeout values for non-persistent connections, handles persistent connection timeouts around statements, and clears tracked state on reconnect. The test now expects one timeout-setting call.
Prepared statements use adapter execution src/Database/Adapter/SQL.php, src/Database/Adapter/Postgres.php	Covered database operations now execute prepared statements through the adapter’s execute() method. The existing delete failure checks remain in place.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: abnegate

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 48562

A transaction opened outside the adapter can leave later PostgreSQL statements using the wrong timeout after rollback. This is a bounded risk to address or explicitly accept before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 48562

Connection sharing can leave a cached timeout inconsistent after rollback, potentially allowing subsequent queries to exceed their configured duration limit. The default persistent-connection mode avoids this new caching path, and ordinary single-adapter transactions retain conservative timeout handling.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Timeout state is connection-scoped, but transaction ownership is adapter-scoped. If adapter A starts a transaction on a shared non-persistent PDO, adapter B still has transaction depth zero. B can issue SET statement_timeout and cache that value as session state. Rolling back through A restores the previous PostgreSQL timeout without clearing B's cached value. B's next execution can therefore skip SET despite the server having a different value. If the restored timeout is zero, a finite configured query-duration limit is no longer enforced. This is a source-derived transition failure, not a runtime-verified exploit; it requires application-level connection sharing across an active transaction.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The retained concern weakens query-duration containment on a shared non-persistent connection. Exploitation would additionally require reachable costly queries after the ownership mismatch and rollback. Resource pressure could affect other workloads sharing the PostgreSQL server; no cross-tenant data access or privilege gain is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A transaction begun by one adapter can contain another adapter's session SET. Rollback restores the earlier server setting, but subsequent equality checks can trust the rolled-back value and omit enforcement. The base's unconditional SET before execution prevented this cache-induced omission.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The execution hook receives the same prepared statement after binding. Inspected document and permission operations retain tenant predicates and parameter bindings, so the dispatch change does not itself remove those visible isolation controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Automatic statement recovery reconnects and retries below the adapter timeout hook without replaying its timeout setup. This limitation also exists at the PR base and is not treated as an introduced or worsened concern.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Align transaction ownership and timeout caching at the physical-connection boundary, or explicitly reject cross-adapter use during active transactions. Ensure rollback and savepoint recovery cannot leave transactional SET values recorded as durable session state.

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Review comments at @src/Database/Adapter/Postgres.php:
- Around line 102-108: Update the timeout branch in the Postgres adapter to
treat the connection as transactional when either the adapter counter is nonzero
or the underlying connection reports an active transaction. Only execute the
session-level SET and cache the timeout when both checks indicate no
transaction; otherwise use SET LOCAL and clear the cached timeout.

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