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Fixes #9798.

Creating/editing a database with a non-default LC_COLLATE/LC_CTYPE (e.g. LC_COLLATE=C) failed with more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression, which locked the collation input.

Root cause: get_ctypes.sql (PG 16+ and 17+) wrapped a multi-row UNION inside a scalar subquery in a CASE ... ELSE branch. For a non-ICU database where datcollate != datctype, that branch returns two rows → scalar-subquery error.

Fix: rewrite as a flat UNION of guarded SELECTs returning cname rows (keyed on datlocprovider), which is exactly what the get_ctypes handler already expects (it iterates rset['rows']). This mirrors the pre-16 default template's flat shape.

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  • databases/sql/16_plus/get_ctypes.sql, databases/sql/17_plus/get_ctypes.sql
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved locale and collation reporting for databases using ICU, builtin, and libc locale providers.
    • Ensured accurate locale information across PostgreSQL 15, 16, and 17.
    • Improved consistency when displaying locale details for the current database.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for provider-specific locale configurations.
    • Verified reporting across supported PostgreSQL versions and configurations, including unsupported environments.

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The get_ctypes queries now use explicit locale-provider branches for PostgreSQL 15+, 16+, and 17+. New tests validate libc, builtin, and ICU locale reporting across supported server configurations.

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Database Locale Provider Fix

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider-specific locale query logic
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql/15_plus/get_ctypes.sql, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql/16_plus/get_ctypes.sql, web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql/17_plus/get_ctypes.sql
The SQL templates use UNION branches to return locale values for ICU, builtin, and libc providers.
Locale provider regression coverage
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/tests/test_db_get_ctypes.py
Tests create provider-specific databases, execute the versioned template, validate locale results, skip unsupported configurations, and clean up temporary resources.

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The PR fixes locale-option queries for non-default collations while preserving the existing database behavior and response format; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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The SQL changes prevent the multi-row scalar subquery error for differing collation and ctype values. The provider-specific queries return the required locale values, and regression tests cover the affected PostgreSQL providers and versions. These changes satisfy issue #9798.

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Pull request overview

Fixes a PostgreSQL 16+ / 17+ SQL-template bug that could raise “more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression” when a database has non-default LC_COLLATE/LC_CTYPE, preventing pgAdmin from populating/unlocking the collation/ctype fields in the database create/edit UI.

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  • Rewrote get_ctypes.sql for PG 16+ and 17+ to return rows via guarded UNION selects (instead of a scalar subquery in a CASE expression).
  • Added a 9.16 release note entry referencing Issue #9798.

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web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql/16_plus/get_ctypes.sql Avoids scalar-subquery multi-row errors by returning locale/ctype values as a simple row set.
web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql/17_plus/get_ctypes.sql Same fix as 16+, using the PG 17+ column layout.
docs/en_US/release_notes_9_16.rst Documents the bug fix in the 9.16 release notes.

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The 16_plus fix is correct (PG16 has no builtin provider, so <> 'i'= 'c' in practice). The 17_plus fix is wrong:

SELECT datlocale AS cname … WHERE datlocprovider = 'i'
UNION
SELECT datcollate AS cname … WHERE datlocprovider <> 'i'
UNION
SELECT datctype  AS cname … WHERE datlocprovider <> 'i'

PG17's datlocprovider has three values: 'c' (libc), 'i' (icu), 'b' (builtin). <> 'i' matches both libc AND builtin. For a builtin-provider database, the locale lives in datlocale — but the locale branch is guarded by = 'i', so datlocale is omitted entirely and datcollate / datctype get returned instead.

The existing properties.sql for 17_plus already treats ICU and builtin identically (reads datlocale for both); this fix should mirror that:

SELECT datlocale … WHERE datlocprovider IN ('i', 'b')
UNION
SELECT datcollate … WHERE datlocprovider = 'c'
UNION
SELECT datctype  … WHERE datlocprovider = 'c'

Also: no resql test was added for the bug case (libc DB where datcollate != datctype, e.g. en_US.UTF-8 / C) — the regression that prompted #6481 has no automated coverage.

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- Around line 136-138: Update the test setup around _create_database so it skips
only when self.template_encoding is unsupported by ICU, rather than skipping all
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dpage force-pushed the fix-9798-collation-ctypes branch from f7474cf to b44e1f3 Compare August 17, 2026 14:54
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…rg#9798

get_ctypes.sql for PG 16+/17+ wrapped a multi-row UNION inside a scalar
subquery in a CASE ELSE branch. When the database is not ICU-based and
datcollate != datctype (e.g. LC_COLLATE=C with a different ctype), the
scalar subquery returned two rows -> "more than one row returned by a
subquery used as an expression", which locked the collation input.
Rewrite as a flat UNION of guarded SELECTs returning cname rows, matching
how the handler already consumes the result (a list of rows).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PostgreSQL 17 added a third value to datlocprovider, 'b' for the builtin
provider, so testing for <> 'i' lumps builtin in with libc. A builtin
database keeps its locale in datlocale exactly as an ICU one does, and
the datcollate and datctype it carries are merely inherited from its
template, so the dialog offered a locale the database does not collate
with and omitted the one it does. Verified against PostgreSQL 18: a
database created with BUILTIN_LOCALE 'C.UTF-8' from an en_GB.UTF-8
template reported en_GB.UTF-8 before this change and C.UTF-8 after it.
This matches 17_plus/properties.sql, which already reads datlocale for
both providers.

The 16_plus template keeps <> 'i' because PostgreSQL 16 has only the two
providers, so there is nothing else for it to match.

Tests run the versioned template against a database created with each
provider in turn, which also covers the bucket selection, and assert
that a libc database reports both its collation and its character type
even when they differ, the case that pgadmin-org#9798 came from.
The ICU scenario ran unconditionally, but LOCALE_PROVIDER/ICU_LOCALE on
CREATE DATABASE was only added in PostgreSQL 15, so it failed with
"option \"locale_provider\" not recognized" against PG14 in CI.

The builtin scenario probes with a fixed BUILTIN_LOCALE 'C.UTF-8', and
skipped only when template0's own datcollate was exactly 'C' or 'POSIX'.
Several CI runners have template0 already on 'C.UTF-8', which is the
only UTF-8 locale a builtin database can use, so the created database's
locale collided with the template's inherited one and
assertNotIn(self.template_collate, reported) failed spuriously. Skip
that scenario too when template0 is already 'C.UTF-8'.
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Thanks for the catch, @asheshv.

The 17_plus query now matches what you outlined: datlocale for datlocprovider IN ('i', 'b'), and datcollate/datctype for = 'c', mirroring properties.sql.

Added test_db_get_ctypes.py, which runs the versioned template against a real database created under each provider (libc, ICU, builtin) and asserts a libc database reports both its collation and character type even when they differ, the exact case that #9798 came from. Also rebased onto current master to pick up the CI fixes on that branch.

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- Line 124: Remove the _skip_unless_distinct_template_locale call from the
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Three things, all turned up by CI.

get_ctypes.sql only existed from the 16_plus bucket down, so a PostgreSQL
15 server fell back to the default template and reported the server's own
lc_collate and lc_ctype settings rather than anything about the database,
which is exactly the bug this is meant to fix. datlocprovider and
daticulocale both arrived in 15, and 15 is also where a database first
stopped necessarily collating according to datcollate and datctype, so
the template moves down to the 15_plus bucket unchanged rather than being
duplicated.

The two libc scenarios deliberately set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to
different values, since that is what proves which of the two columns the
query reported. Windows builds accept the CREATE DATABASE but then refuse
to open the result, so those two scenarios now skip with the server's own
explanation when that is what comes back, and continue to fail on
anything else.

The builtin scenario no longer skips when template0 uses 'C' or 'POSIX'.
That guard belongs to the libc scenarios, which need a template locale
distinguishable from the defaults; the builtin scenario distinguishes
against the 'C.UTF-8' it creates the database with, and 'C' and 'POSIX'
are both perfectly distinguishable from that, so skipping them only lost
the scenario on the servers most likely to have a default template0.
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Pushed fixes for the failing run-python-tests-pg jobs, which turned out to be two separate problems plus CodeRabbit's point.

get_ctypes.sql only existed from the 16_plus bucket down, so a PostgreSQL 15 server fell back to the default template and reported the server's own lc_collate and lc_ctype settings rather than anything about the database, which is exactly the bug this PR is meant to fix; the new test caught it on all three platforms. datlocprovider and daticulocale both arrived in 15, and 15 is also where a database first stopped necessarily collating according to datcollate and datctype, so the template moves down to 15_plus unchanged rather than being duplicated.

The Windows PG18 job was failing for a quite different reason: the two libc scenarios deliberately set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to different values, since that is what proves which of the two columns the query reported, and a Windows build accepts the CREATE DATABASE but then refuses to open the result with "collations with different collate and ctype values are not supported on this platform". Those two scenarios now skip with the server's own explanation when that is what comes back, and still fail on anything else.

@coderabbitai was right about the builtin scenario's skip, so that has gone too; see the inline reply for the reasoning. All four scenarios now run locally with none skipped.

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sql_root='web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql'
test_file='web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/tests/test_db_get_ctypes.py'

printf '%s\n' '== get_ctypes.sql template locations =='
fd -a '^get_ctypes\.sql$' "$sql_root" | sort

printf '%s\n' '== PostgreSQL 15+ template =='
nl -ba "$sql_root/15_plus/get_ctypes.sql"

printf '%s\n' '== PostgreSQL 17+ template =='
nl -ba "$sql_root/17_plus/get_ctypes.sql"

printf '%s\n' '== Test structure and relevant conditions =='
ast-grep outline "$test_file" --items all
rg -n -C 5 -e 'template_encoding|BUILTIN_LOCALE|datlocprovider|collations with different collate and ctype values are not supported on this platform|skipTest|15_plus|get_ctypes' "$test_file"

Length of output: 1555


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#!/bin/bash
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sql_root='web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql'
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print_numbered() {
  awk '{ printf "%6d  %s\n", NR, $0 }' "$1"
}

printf '%s\n' '== PostgreSQL 15+ get_ctypes.sql =='
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print_numbered "$sql_root/17_plus/get_ctypes.sql"

printf '%s\n' '== PostgreSQL 16+ directory status =='
if [ -e "$sql_root/16_plus/get_ctypes.sql" ]; then
  printf '%s\n' 'Unexpected 16_plus/get_ctypes.sql is present:'
  print_numbered "$sql_root/16_plus/get_ctypes.sql"
else
  printf '%s\n' 'No 16_plus/get_ctypes.sql is present.'
fi

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  "$test_file" || true

Length of output: 8880


@dpage, I verified the PostgreSQL 15+ template placement and the provider-specific queries.

15_plus/get_ctypes.sql now covers PostgreSQL 15 correctly. The PostgreSQL 17+ query also uses datlocale only for ICU and builtin databases. The builtin scenario no longer skips when template0 uses C or POSIX. The UTF-8 encoding skip remains necessary for BUILTIN_LOCALE 'C.UTF-8'.

One test concern remains. test_db_get_ctypes.py skips when an exception contains the generic text not supported on this platform. An unrelated connection or platform error with that text could also skip the test. Match the complete expected error, collations with different collate and ctype values are not supported on this platform, so all other errors still fail the test.


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URL: https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/pull/10040

Timestamp: 2026-09-01T11:00:39.079Z
Learning: In `web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/templates/databases/sql`, `get_ctypes.sql` must have a PostgreSQL 15+ template. PostgreSQL 15 introduced `pg_database.datlocprovider` and `pg_database.daticulocale`, and database locale behavior can differ from `datcollate` and `datctype` from that version.

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File: web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/tests/test_db_get_ctypes.py:136-138
Timestamp: 2026-08-20T08:16:23.601Z
Learning: In `web/pgadmin/browser/server_groups/servers/databases/tests/test_db_get_ctypes.py`, the `self.template_encoding != 'UTF8'` skip applies only to the PostgreSQL 17+ builtin-provider scenario because `BUILTIN_LOCALE 'C.UTF-8'` requires UTF-8. The ICU scenario intentionally has no encoding skip: it inherits `template0`'s encoding and reuses `template0`'s `datcollate` and `datctype`, so it introduces no new encoding-locale combination.

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