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Summary

  • Step 5 of the binary-split plan, stacked on PR refactor(server): extract TLS / ACME helpers into server/tlscert #484
  • Moves the Arrow Flight SQL client glue (FlightExecutor, FlightRowSet, MaxGRPCMessageSize, value extractors) out of server/flight_executor.go into a new server/flightclient/ subpackage
  • The previously private intervalValue type moves into arrowmap.IntervalValue (alongside OrderedMapValue) so result formatters in server/conn.go and server/types.go can switch on it without importing flightclient (which would create an import cycle)
  • 18 files touched, ~3000 lines moved

Why "flightclient" and not "flight"?

arrow-go's github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/flight package is imported alongside the new package in flightsqlingress, duckdbservice/service.go, and the controlplane. Naming the new package flight would force every consumer to alias one of the two, which is more disruptive than a longer name.

What this PR does NOT achieve

server/flightclient is duckdb-free at the source level — no direct duckdb-go imports — but its transitive import graph still includes duckdb-go because it imports server (for the RowSet / ExecResult / RawConn / ColumnTyper interfaces) and server still links libduckdb via its other files. Making server itself duckdb-free is the load-bearing structural work in PR #6+.

Why no back-compat aliases for server.FlightExecutor?

Adding them in server/ would create the same import cycle (server → flightclient → server). External callers (controlplane, flightsqlingress, duckdbservice, perf-test driver) update to flightclient.X directly. There were only ~20 call sites to update — mechanical.

Test plan

  • go build ./... clean
  • go build -tags kubernetes ./... clean
  • go test -short ./server/flightclient/... ./server/... ./controlplane/... ./duckdbservice/... — all green
  • Pre-existing testcontainer Postgres + integration test failures reproduce on the base branch (unrelated to this PR)

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Step 5 of the binary-split plan. Moves the Arrow Flight SQL client glue
(FlightExecutor, FlightRowSet, MaxGRPCMessageSize, the value extraction
helpers) out of server/flight_executor.go into a focused
server/flightclient subpackage.

The package is named flightclient (rather than just flight) to avoid a
name collision with arrow-go's github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/flight
package, which is imported alongside it in flightsqlingress,
duckdbservice/service.go, and the controlplane.

Files moved:
  server/flight_executor.go            → server/flightclient/flight_executor.go
  server/flight_executor_test.go       → server/flightclient/flight_executor_test.go
  server/flight_executor_arrow_test.go → server/flightclient/flight_executor_arrow_test.go

The previously private intervalValue type moved into arrowmap as
IntervalValue (alongside OrderedMapValue) so the result formatters in
server/conn.go and server/types.go can switch on it without importing
the flightclient subpackage (which would create an import cycle since
flightclient imports server for the RowSet/ExecResult/RawConn/ColumnTyper
interfaces).

External callers updated to import server/flightclient directly:
  - server/flightsqlingress/ingress.go (and its test)
  - duckdbservice/service.go
  - controlplane/{control,session_mgr,flight_ingress,worker_mgr,k8s_pool}.go
  - controlplane/{control_cancel,session_mgr}_test.go
  - tests/perf/drivers/flight/driver.go

No back-compat aliases in server/ for FlightExecutor / MaxGRPCMessageSize:
adding them would create the same import cycle (server -> flightclient
-> server). Callers update to flightclient.X directly. There are only a
handful, so the migration is mechanical.

The formatOrderedMapValue tests moved into a new
server/format_ordered_map_test.go because the function under test
(server/conn.go) calls into formatValue, which switches on duckdb-go's
driver value types — it can't move to a duckdb-free subpackage. The
arrowTypeToDuckDB / extractArrowValue tests stayed with their subjects
in flightclient.

What this PR does NOT achieve: server/flightclient is duckdb-free at
the source level, but its transitive import graph still includes
duckdb-go because it imports server (for the executor interfaces) and
server still links libduckdb. Making server itself duckdb-free is the
load-bearing structural work in PR #6+.

Verified:
  - go build ./... clean
  - go build -tags kubernetes ./... clean
  - go test -short ./server/flightclient/... ./server/...
    ./controlplane/... ./duckdbservice/... — all green (pre-existing
    testcontainer Postgres + integration test failures unrelated)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@fuziontech fuziontech force-pushed the feature/binary-split-pr5-flight branch from 0451c12 to bc069e4 Compare May 1, 2026 16:04
@fuziontech fuziontech merged commit 2696222 into feature/binary-split-pr4-querylog-checkpoint May 1, 2026
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* refactor(server): extract TLS / ACME helpers into server/tlscert

Step 4 of the binary-split plan. Moves the TLS-cert and ACME (HTTP-01,
DNS-01) helpers out of the server/ package root into a focused
server/tlscert subpackage with no dependency on github.com/duckdb/duckdb-go.

Files moved:
  server/certs.go      → server/tlscert/certs.go
  server/acme.go       → server/tlscert/acme.go
  server/acme_dns.go   → server/tlscert/acme_dns.go
  server/acme_test.go  → server/tlscert/acme_test.go
  server/acme_dns_test.go → server/tlscert/acme_dns_test.go

Backward compatibility preserved via type aliases and re-export `var`s in
server/tlscert_aliases.go:

  server.ACMEManager    is now an alias for tlscert.ACMEManager
  server.ACMEDNSManager is now an alias for tlscert.ACMEDNSManager
  server.NewACMEManager / NewACMEDNSManager / EnsureCertificates
    are re-export `var`s pointing at tlscert.X

So existing references in main.go, tests/integration/harness.go,
controlplane/control.go, and the Server struct's acmeManager /
acmeDNSManager fields all compile unchanged. New code should import
server/tlscert directly.

The previously-private generateSelfSignedCert is now exported as
tlscert.GenerateSelfSignedCert because server_test.go calls it
directly to generate a cert pair without going through the
EnsureCertificates file-existence check.

PR #4 originally targeted querylog + checkpoint extraction. That hit
a chicken-and-egg with DuckLakeConfig: those constructors take the
server.Config struct, and the duckdb-bound config types haven't moved
to a leaf package yet on this branch (PR #1.5 does that on a parallel
branch). Pivoted to TLS/ACME as a self-contained alternative — same
shape as PR #3, no cycle issues. The querylog / checkpoint move will
land in PR #5 once the config types are sorted.

Verified:
  - go build ./... clean
  - go build -tags kubernetes ./... clean
  - go test -short ./server/tlscert/... ./server/... ./controlplane/... ./
    all green
  - go list -deps ./server/tlscert | grep duckdb-go is empty

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(server): extract Arrow Flight client into server/flightclient (#486)

Step 5 of the binary-split plan. Moves the Arrow Flight SQL client glue
(FlightExecutor, FlightRowSet, MaxGRPCMessageSize, the value extraction
helpers) out of server/flight_executor.go into a focused
server/flightclient subpackage.

The package is named flightclient (rather than just flight) to avoid a
name collision with arrow-go's github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/flight
package, which is imported alongside it in flightsqlingress,
duckdbservice/service.go, and the controlplane.

Files moved:
  server/flight_executor.go            → server/flightclient/flight_executor.go
  server/flight_executor_test.go       → server/flightclient/flight_executor_test.go
  server/flight_executor_arrow_test.go → server/flightclient/flight_executor_arrow_test.go

The previously private intervalValue type moved into arrowmap as
IntervalValue (alongside OrderedMapValue) so the result formatters in
server/conn.go and server/types.go can switch on it without importing
the flightclient subpackage (which would create an import cycle since
flightclient imports server for the RowSet/ExecResult/RawConn/ColumnTyper
interfaces).

External callers updated to import server/flightclient directly:
  - server/flightsqlingress/ingress.go (and its test)
  - duckdbservice/service.go
  - controlplane/{control,session_mgr,flight_ingress,worker_mgr,k8s_pool}.go
  - controlplane/{control_cancel,session_mgr}_test.go
  - tests/perf/drivers/flight/driver.go

No back-compat aliases in server/ for FlightExecutor / MaxGRPCMessageSize:
adding them would create the same import cycle (server -> flightclient
-> server). Callers update to flightclient.X directly. There are only a
handful, so the migration is mechanical.

The formatOrderedMapValue tests moved into a new
server/format_ordered_map_test.go because the function under test
(server/conn.go) calls into formatValue, which switches on duckdb-go's
driver value types — it can't move to a duckdb-free subpackage. The
arrowTypeToDuckDB / extractArrowValue tests stayed with their subjects
in flightclient.

What this PR does NOT achieve: server/flightclient is duckdb-free at
the source level, but its transitive import graph still includes
duckdb-go because it imports server (for the executor interfaces) and
server still links libduckdb. Making server itself duckdb-free is the
load-bearing structural work in PR #6+.

Verified:
  - go build ./... clean
  - go build -tags kubernetes ./... clean
  - go test -short ./server/flightclient/... ./server/...
    ./controlplane/... ./duckdbservice/... — all green (pre-existing
    testcontainer Postgres + integration test failures unrelated)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(server): extract SQL/result interfaces into server/sqlcore so flightclient is duckdb-free

Step 6 of the binary-split plan. Carves the SQL/result interfaces and
two pure helpers out of server/ into a new server/sqlcore subpackage so
the Flight client can talk to those abstractions without importing the
rest of server/ (which still links libduckdb).

Symbols moved:

  - Interfaces: RowSet, ExecResult, RawConn, ColumnTyper, QueryExecutor
    (from server/executor.go)
  - IsEmptyQuery + the previously private isEmptyQuery /
    stripLeadingComments helpers (from server/conn.go and
    server/exports.go) — now sqlcore.IsEmptyQuery and
    sqlcore.StripLeadingComments
  - OTELGRPCClientHandler (from server/otelgrpc_filter.go)

Backward compatibility preserved via type aliases and re-export `var`s
in server/executor.go and a new server/sqlcore_aliases.go. Existing
references to server.RowSet / server.QueryExecutor / server.IsEmptyQuery
/ server.OTELGRPCClientHandler / etc. compile unchanged.

The Flight client (server/flightclient) is the first consumer to drop
its server import entirely. After this PR:

  go list -deps ./server/sqlcore | grep duckdb-go     # empty
  go list -deps ./server/flightclient | grep duckdb-go # empty

This means a hypothetical cmd/duckgres-controlplane that imports
flightclient (and arrowmap, auth, sysinfo, tlscert, ducklake from
earlier PRs) would not link libduckdb at all. The control plane's
remaining duckdb-go linkage comes from its server import for the
larger Server / clientConn / Config surface, which PR #7+ tackles.

LocalExecutor / PinnedExecutor / LocalRowSet stay in server/executor.go
intentionally — they're standalone-mode-only adapters around *sql.DB
and aren't needed by flightclient or the control plane.

Verified:
  - go build ./... clean
  - go build -tags kubernetes ./... clean
  - go test -short ./server/sqlcore/... ./server/flightclient/...
    ./server/... ./controlplane/... — all green (existing
    isEmptyQuery / stripLeadingComments tests in conn_test.go pass via
    the unexported wrappers)
  - go list -deps ./server/sqlcore | grep duckdb-go is empty
  - go list -deps ./server/flightclient | grep duckdb-go is empty

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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