feat(database): make the statement span the only span a statement gets by Makisuo · Pull Request #126 · MapleTechLabs/effect-orm

Makisuo · 2026-10-26T00:20:23Z

Database opens one client span per statement (0.7.0), but Effect's SQL driver still opened its own span inside it, named after the database and carrying the query text. Every statement produced two client spans, and a consumer that wanted one had to switch the tracer off around its database calls, which also hid the statement span.

The statement span is now the only span a statement gets:

It carries db.query.text (the statement as sent: Postgres keeps $n, ClickHouse inlines values, exactly what the driver's span recorded) and, on failure, db.response.status_code (the SQLSTATE) beside error.type.
The driver call runs with the tracer disabled. fromSqlClient({ driverSpans: true }) keeps the driver's span as a child, for what only it records (server.address, connection waits).
observe runs inside the statement span, so attributes a consumer annotates there land on it. A test pins that, since consumers rely on it to add peer.service and similar.
Plain SQL (Db.sql) spans were named after the database system (postgresql). They are now named after the leading operation and first table the text names (UPDATE items), with db.operation.name and db.collection.name, as the conventions allow for parsed text. The patterns match the ones Maple's warehouse derives query shapes with, so existing shape names carry over.

Minor bump (default trace shape changes). docs/database.md tracing section updated.

Tests

src/database/tracing.test.ts: no driver span by default, db.query.text is the parameterized SQL, SQLSTATE on a syntax error, observe annotations land on the statement span, driverSpans: true nests the driver span under it, and plain SQL is named from its text (with and without a table).
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New Features
- SQL statement traces now include query text and clearer operation and table details. Errors can include database response status information.
- By default, a statement is represented by a single trace span. SQL driver spans can be enabled when additional detail is needed.
- Statement spans can include custom annotations.
Documentation
- Updated tracing guidance to explain span naming, attributes, and driver-span options.

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Database statement spans now record query and error attributes and derive operation and collection names from plain SQL. SQL driver spans are disabled by default and can be enabled with driverSpans.

Changes: Database tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Statement span attributes and naming `src/database/tracing.ts`, `src/database/tracing.test.ts`, `docs/database.md`	Statement spans record query text and SQLSTATE response codes. Plain SQL statements derive operation and collection values for span attributes and naming. Tests cover annotations and statements with and without a table.
SQL driver span control `src/database/database.ts`, `src/database/tracing.test.ts`, `.changeset/statement-span-only.md`	`FromSqlClientOptions` adds `driverSpans`. Row-returning statements and commands disable driver tracing by default; tests verify that enabling the option nests a driver span inside the statement span.

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Possibly related issues

MapleTechLabs/effect-orm#77: This PR adds statement annotations and span attributes, but does not include the issue’s separate parameter-redaction and full semantic-convention requirements.

Possibly related PRs

MapleTechLabs/effect-orm#33: It introduced the statement tracing path that this PR updates.
MapleTechLabs/effect-orm#8: It introduced fromSqlClient and its options, which this PR extends with driverSpans.
MapleTechLabs/effect-orm#125: It changes Effect SQL span naming, which is related to this PR’s changes to database tracing behavior.

Suggested reviewers: artile

Merge Risk: Low · previous review e846b

Some plain-SQL queries produce misleading tracing labels. This is a bounded observability issue that should be fixed or accepted before merge.

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- Line 46: Mask single-quoted SQL string literals before applying FIRST_TABLE to
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The statement span now carries db.query.text and, on failure, db.response.status_code, so the SQL driver's own span (which repeated the query text under the database name) runs untraced by default. driverSpans: true keeps it as a child. observe runs inside the statement span, so a consumer's attributes land there; the tests pin that.

A Db.sql statement has no compiled operation or table, so its span was named after the database system. It now reads both off the text, as the OTel conventions allow: the leading word and the first table a from/into/update/ join/table clause names, so `UPDATE items SET ...` is "UPDATE items".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

maple-review-bot · 2026-11-02T15:28:01Z

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🟡 Confidence 6/10 · needs attention. Held at 6 because a correctness warning is open.
_{2 warnings −2 · tests covered · risk high −1}

Makes the Database statement span the only span a statement gets: it now carries db.query.text and the SQLSTATE, and plain SQL is named from its text. Turning the driver span off by default also drops the peer attributes the ClickHouse client relied on, and the new table heuristic misreads common SQL.

driverSpans opts back into the driver span, which now runs untraced by default
Statement span carries db.query.text and db.response.status_code
Plain SQL spans are named from their leading operation and first table

Findings

🟠 Warning · F1 · Statement spans no longer name the peer now the driver span is off

observability · MAP-01 · src/database/database.ts:220

driver() switches the tracer off, so the span that carried the peer is gone: src/clickhouse-http/client.ts:279 puts db.namespace, server.address, server.port and peer.service on that driver span only. Statement spans keep db.system.name alone, so the service-map edge promised in docs/running-queries.md:110 disappears for every Db caller.

Carry the ClickHouse client's `spanAttributes` onto the statement span — an option on `fromSqlClient`, or an `annotateCurrentSpan` from the client's `execute` — so `peer.service`, `server.address` and `db.namespace` survive.

🟠 Warning · F2 · FIRST_TABLE reads a column or a subquery as the table

correctness · src/database/tracing.ts:46-55

FIRST_TABLE takes the first from|into|update|join|table plus a word anywhere, so Db.sqlSELECT extract(epoch from created_at) FROM events`` records db.collection.name: created_at and is named `SELECT created_at`, and `FROM (SELECT id FROM events) t` records `SELECT` — though `docs/database.md:315` says collection is absent over a subquery.

Skip keywords at parenthesis depth above 0 (`extract(epoch from x)`) and a `FROM` followed by `(`, so a column or a subquery never becomes the collection.

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F1 · Warning · observability · MAP-01 · src/database/database.ts:220
Statement spans no longer name the peer now the driver span is off
`driver()` switches the tracer off, so the span that carried the peer is gone: `src/clickhouse-http/client.ts:279` puts `db.namespace`, `server.address`, `server.port` and `peer.service` on that driver span only. Statement spans keep `db.system.name` alone, so the service-map edge promised in `docs/running-queries.md:110` disappears for every `Db` caller.
Suggested fix: Carry the ClickHouse client's `spanAttributes` onto the statement span — an option on `fromSqlClient`, or an `annotateCurrentSpan` from the client's `execute` — so `peer.service`, `server.address` and `db.namespace` survive.

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F2 · Warning · correctness · src/database/tracing.ts:46-55
`FIRST_TABLE` reads a column or a subquery as the table
`FIRST_TABLE` takes the first `from|into|update|join|table` plus a word anywhere, so `Db.sql`SELECT extract(epoch from created_at) FROM events`` records `db.collection.name: created_at` and is named `SELECT created_at`, and `FROM (SELECT id FROM events) t` records `SELECT` — though `docs/database.md:315` says collection is absent over a subquery.
Suggested fix: Skip keywords at parenthesis depth above 0 (`extract(epoch from x)`) and a `FROM` followed by `(`, so a column or a subquery never becomes the collection.

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 	const observe = options.observe ?? (() => Effect.void)
+	// The statement span is the span: the driver's own runs untraced unless asked for.
+	const driver = <A, E, R>(effect: Effect.Effect<A, E, R>): Effect.Effect<A, E, R> =>
+		options.driverSpans === true ? effect : Effect.withTracerEnabled(effect, false)


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Statement spans no longer name the peer now the driver span is off

_{F1 · Warning · observability · MAP-01}

driver() switches the tracer off, so the span that carried the peer is gone: src/clickhouse-http/client.ts:279 puts db.namespace, server.address, server.port and peer.service on that driver span only. Statement spans keep db.system.name alone, so the service-map edge promised in docs/running-queries.md:110 disappears for every Db caller.

Carry the ClickHouse client's `spanAttributes` onto the statement span — an option on `fromSqlClient`, or an `annotateCurrentSpan` from the client's `execute` — so `peer.service`, `server.address` and `db.namespace` survive.

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In `src/database/database.ts:220`: Statement spans no longer name the peer now the driver span is off. `driver()` switches the tracer off, so the span that carried the peer is gone: `src/clickhouse-http/client.ts:279` puts `db.namespace`, `server.address`, `server.port` and `peer.service` on that driver span only. Statement spans keep `db.system.name` alone, so the service-map edge promised in `docs/running-queries.md:110` disappears for every `Db` caller. Suggested fix: Carry the ClickHouse client's `spanAttributes` onto the statement span — an option on `fromSqlClient`, or an `annotateCurrentSpan` from the client's `execute` — so `peer.service`, `server.address` and `db.namespace` survive. Verify the problem exists at that location before changing it, and keep the fix to those lines.

maple-review-bot · 2026-11-02T15:29:46Z

+// Plain SQL has no compiled operation or table, so they are read off its text,
+// as the conventions allow: the first operation and the first collection named.
+const LEADING_WORD = /^\s*(\w+)/
+const FIRST_TABLE = /(?:from|into|update|join|table)\s+\W?([\w.]+)/i


Warning
FIRST_TABLE reads a column or a subquery as the table

_{F2 · Warning · correctness}

FIRST_TABLE takes the first from|into|update|join|table plus a word anywhere, so Db.sqlSELECT extract(epoch from created_at) FROM events`` records db.collection.name: created_at and is named `SELECT created_at`, and `FROM (SELECT id FROM events) t` records `SELECT` — though `docs/database.md:315` says collection is absent over a subquery.

Skip keywords at parenthesis depth above 0 (`extract(epoch from x)`) and a `FROM` followed by `(`, so a column or a subquery never becomes the collection.

🤖 Prompt to fix with an AI agent

In `src/database/tracing.ts:46-55`: `FIRST_TABLE` reads a column or a subquery as the table. `FIRST_TABLE` takes the first `from|into|update|join|table` plus a word anywhere, so `Db.sql`SELECT extract(epoch from created_at) FROM events`` records `db.collection.name: created_at` and is named `SELECT created_at`, and `FROM (SELECT id FROM events) t` records `SELECT` — though `docs/database.md:315` says collection is absent over a subquery. Suggested fix: Skip keywords at parenthesis depth above 0 (`extract(epoch from x)`) and a `FROM` followed by `(`, so a column or a subquery never becomes the collection. Verify the problem exists at that location before changing it, and keep the fix to those lines.

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fix(database): ignore string literals when naming a plain SQL span

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feat(database): observeExit hook, span parameters and Redacted parameter redaction #98

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