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Closes #269. A save kept a source's compression and its text encoding but wrote every record with \n, so a CRLF file saved in place came back LF throughout: a caller who edited one row got a file whose every line had changed. This adds the terminator to the things a save preserves, plus the dependency bumps Dependabot opened (#308, #309, #310, #311, #247) and another round of coverage.

Changes

  • line_ending.go is the new LineEnding type, its two values, and the detection an in-place save runs: the file about to be replaced is read through its codec — so a .csv.gz is read as the text inside it — and the terminator the majority of its lines use is the one written back.
  • DumpOptions.LineEnding and WithLineEnding name the choice for a dump to a new destination, where there is no existing file to take it from (save.go); overwriteOriginalFile fills it in from the file itself, next to where it already takes the compression from the path.
  • The three line-based writers thread the terminator through (filesql.go), including the quoted lone empty field, and parser.WriteTSVRecordLineEnding is the same choice for a caller writing TSV records directly (parser/tsv.go). Parquet and XLSX are not line-based and are untouched.
  • chore(deps) bumps moov-io/ach to 1.62.1, moov-io/wire to 0.15.9, modernc.org/sqlite to 1.56.0, klauspost/compress to 1.19.2, and pierrec/lz4/v4 to 4.1.28, superseding chore(deps): bump github.com/pierrec/lz4/v4 from 4.1.27 to 4.1.28 #308, chore(deps): bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.19.1 to 1.19.2 #309, chore(deps): bump github.com/moov-io/wire from 0.15.8 to 0.15.9 #310, chore(deps): bump github.com/moov-io/ach from 1.61.3 to 1.62.1 #311, and chore(deps): bump modernc.org/sqlite from 1.55.0 to 1.56.0 #247.
  • Coverage: dialect/value_edge_test.go covers the value helpers behind the UDFs (the BLOB and boolean casts, the overflow checks behind the SAFE_ family, the two HEX spellings, the interval arithmetic and its month clamping), and dialect/rewrite_edge_test.go covers the rewrite rules' "not this form" answers and the intervals they refuse. Overall coverage is 93.3%, with dialect at 91.6%.

Design Decisions

The terminator is detected at save time from the file being replaced rather than recorded at load time. The information is in the file either way, and reading it where it is used keeps the loader unchanged and works the same for every entry point — Open, Builder, LoadInto — without a per-source registry to keep in step. It costs one bounded read (1 MiB) of a file the save is about to rewrite anyway.

The rule is the majority of the terminators in the sample, not the first line's. The point of the change is that rows the caller did not edit come back byte-identical: a file that is LF except for one stray CRLF stays LF, where following the first line would rewrite every other line in it. A tie, a file with no line ending, and a file that cannot be read all answer LF, which is what every save wrote before this existed — detection is an improvement on the destination's behalf and must not fail the save.

A dump to a new destination still writes \n unless asked otherwise, so nothing that exists today changes its output.

Limitations

Only \n and \r\n are offered. A lone \r is not a terminator any of the readers here accept, so writing one would produce a file this package could not read back.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable LF or CRLF line endings for CSV, TSV, and LTSV output.
    • Overwrites preserve the predominant line ending from the original file, including compressed inputs.
    • Added direct support for custom TSV record terminators.
    • Parquet and XLSX output remain unchanged.
  • Documentation

    • Updated usage documentation and examples for line-ending configuration.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for line-ending detection, preservation, compression, dialect translation, conversions, and interval handling.

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  • .golangci.yml
  • CHANGELOG.md
  • dialect/operators.go
  • dialect/value_edge_test.go
  • line_ending.go
  • line_ending_test.go
  • memory_fallback_test.go
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The change adds configurable LF and CRLF output for CSV, TSV, and LTSV. Overwrite saves detect and preserve source line endings, including compressed files. It also adds dialect edge-case tests, updates dependencies, and centralizes the unknown encoding name.

Changes

Configurable line-ending output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Line-ending contract and detection
line_ending.go, line_ending_test.go
Adds LF and CRLF values, terminator generation, and majority-based detection for plain or compressed files.
Dump option and overwrite wiring
save.go, autosave_line_ending_test.go
Adds DumpOptions.LineEnding, WithLineEnding, LF defaults, and source-ending preservation during overwrite saves.
Delimited writer integration
filesql.go, parser/tsv.go, parser/parser_test.go, autosave_line_ending_test.go
Passes selected terminators to CSV, TSV, and LTSV writers. Adds direct TSV line-ending support and validation tests.
Public documentation and changelog
README.md, example_api_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
Documents line-ending configuration, preservation rules, mixed-ending handling, and the API example.

Dialect edge-case coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dialect rewrite edge cases
dialect/rewrite_edge_test.go
Tests unchanged forms, unsupported intervals, parameterized casts, and DATE_SUB translation.
Dialect value and interval edge cases
dialect/value_edge_test.go
Tests conversions, arithmetic overflow, hexadecimal functions, regex escaping, and interval behavior.

Maintenance updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and encoding maintenance
go.mod, save_encoding.go, save_encoding_unit_test.go
Updates Go and dependency versions and uses unknownName for unknown encodings.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to bacbf

In-place saves can still rewrite line endings incorrectly for multiline CSV values or larger files whose dominant terminator is outside the sampled region, causing broad formatting changes across otherwise untouched records. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant DumpDatabase
  participant LineEndingDetector
  participant DelimitedWriter
  Caller->>DumpDatabase: configure WithLineEnding or overwrite source
  DumpDatabase->>LineEndingDetector: detect source terminator when overwriting
  LineEndingDetector-->>DumpDatabase: return LF or CRLF
  DumpDatabase->>DelimitedWriter: write delimited records with terminator
  DelimitedWriter-->>Caller: save CSV, TSV, or LTSV output
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Dependency upgrades and extensive dialect edge-case tests are unrelated to the linked line-ending issue. Move dependency upgrades and unrelated dialect coverage tests to separate pull requests, or document why they are required for this change.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 72.73% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preserving line terminators during in-place file saves.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the problem, links issue #269, documents behavior and design decisions, and lists tests and coverage.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies #269 by preserving LF or CRLF endings, handling mixed endings deterministically, and covering compressed inputs with tests.
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Inline comments:
In `@dialect/value_edge_test.go`:
- Around line 264-267: Update similarToRegexp so a trailing backslash in the
pattern is escaped before appending the end anchor, producing a regex that
matches the literal backslash followed by the anchor. Update the “a trailing
escape is kept as is” expectation accordingly while preserving the other regex
conversion cases.

In `@line_ending.go`:
- Around line 82-90: The dominantLineEnding function must ignore LF and CRLF
sequences inside CSV quoted fields, including escaped quotes, and count
terminators only outside quoted fields. Make detection CSV-aware while
preserving correct handling of CRLF records containing quoted LF data and LF
records containing quoted CRLF data, and add coverage for both cases.
- Around line 74-78: Update the line-ending detection function around io.ReadAll
and dominantLineEnding to consume the complete decoded reader with bounded
memory instead of limiting detection to the first MiB. If any read error occurs,
including when partial data is returned, discard the sample and return
LineEndingLF; only call dominantLineEnding after a fully successful read.

In `@save_encoding_unit_test.go`:
- Line 39: Update the test case for Encoding(99) to use the independent literal
expected value "unknown" instead of unknownName, while leaving Encoding.String()
as the behavior under test.
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  • example_api_test.go
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  • line_ending.go
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Code Metrics Report

main (f7a0399) #313 (897e31b) +/-
Coverage 93.0% 93.3% +0.3%
Test Execution Time 14s 18s +4s
Details
  |                     | main (f7a0399) | #313 (897e31b) |  +/-  |
  |---------------------|----------------|----------------|-------|
+ | Coverage            |          93.0% |          93.3% | +0.3% |
  |   Files             |             64 |             65 |    +1 |
  |   Lines             |          10535 |          10580 |   +45 |
+ |   Covered           |           9798 |           9877 |   +79 |
- | Test Execution Time |            14s |            18s |   +4s |

Code coverage of files in pull request scope (91.1% → 92.2%)

Files Coverage +/- Status
dialect/cast.go 90.8% +6.7% affected
dialect/datetime.go 85.2% +3.1% affected
dialect/functions.go 91.6% +1.1% affected
dialect/operators.go 92.9% +3.1% modified
dialect/rewrite.go 87.3% +0.8% affected
filesql.go 88.4% +0.0% modified
line_ending.go 97.2% +97.2% added
parser/parquet.go 95.0% 0.0% modified
parser/parser.go 98.0% 0.0% modified
parser/tsv.go 96.8% +0.3% modified
prep/parser.go 93.6% 0.0% modified
prep/prep.go 97.1% 0.0% modified
save.go 95.3% +0.0% modified

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A write-back rewrites a CRLF file with LF line endings, changing untouched rows

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