fix: fix wrong http status on pg error 42P17 infinite recursion

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
  - #3361, Clarify PGRST204(column not found) error message - @steve-chavez
  - #3373, Remove rejected mediatype `application/vnd.pgrst.object+json` from response - @taimoorzaeem
  - #3418, Fix OpenAPI not tagging a FK column correctly on O2O relationships - @laurenceisla
+ - #3256, Fix wrong http status for pg error `42P17 infinite recursion` - @taimoorzaeem
 
 ## [12.0.2] - 2023-12-20
 

docs/references/errors.rst

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ PostgREST translates `PostgreSQL error codes <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/cu
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
 | 42P01                    | 404                     | undefined table                 |
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
+| 42P17                    | 500                     | infinite recursion              |
++--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+
 | 42501                    | | if authenticated 403, | insufficient privileges         |
 |                          | | else 401              |                                 |
 +--------------------------+-------------------------+---------------------------------+

src/PostgREST/Error.hs

@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ pgErrorStatus authed (SQL.SessionUsageError (SQL.QueryError _ _ (SQL.ResultError
           then HTTP.status406
           else HTTP.status404 -- undefined function
         "42P01"   -> HTTP.status404 -- undefined table
+        "42P17"   -> HTTP.status500 -- infinite recursion
         "42501"   -> if authed then HTTP.status403 else HTTP.status401 -- insufficient privilege
         'P':'T':n -> fromMaybe HTTP.status500 (HTTP.mkStatus <$> readMaybe n <*> pure m)
         "PGRST"   ->

test/spec/Feature/Query/QuerySpec.hs

@@ -1407,3 +1407,10 @@ spec actualPgVersion = do
         { matchStatus  = 200
         , matchHeaders = [matchContentTypeJson]
         }
+
+  context "test infinite recursion error 42P17" $
+    it "return http status 500" $
+      get "/infinite_recursion?select=*" `shouldRespondWith`
+        [json|{"code":"42P17","message":"infinite recursion detected in rules for relation \"infinite_recursion\"","details":null,"hint":null}|]
+        { matchStatus = 500 }
+

test/spec/fixtures/schema.sql

@@ -3768,3 +3768,10 @@ create aggregate test.outfunc_agg (anyelement) (
 , stype = "pg/outfunc"
 , sfunc = outfunc_trans
 );
+
+-- https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/3256
+create view test.infinite_recursion as
+select * from test.projects;
+
+create or replace view test.infinite_recursion as
+select * from test.infinite_recursion;