Expose underlying connection errors to user of AsyncPgConnection

src/pg/mod.rs

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ use futures_util::future::BoxFuture;
 use futures_util::stream::{BoxStream, TryStreamExt};
 use futures_util::{Future, FutureExt, StreamExt};
 use std::borrow::Cow;
+use std::ops::DerefMut;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use tokio::sync::Mutex;
 use tokio_postgres::types::ToSql;
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ pub struct AsyncPgConnection {
     stmt_cache: Arc<Mutex<StmtCache<diesel::pg::Pg, Statement>>>,
     transaction_state: Arc<Mutex<AnsiTransactionManager>>,
     metadata_cache: Arc<Mutex<PgMetadataCache>>,
+    error_receiver: Arc<Mutex<tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<diesel::result::Error>>>,
 }
 
 #[async_trait::async_trait]
@@ -124,12 +126,19 @@ impl AsyncConnection for AsyncPgConnection {
         let (client, connection) = tokio_postgres::connect(database_url, tokio_postgres::NoTls)
             .await
             .map_err(ErrorHelper)?;
-        tokio::spawn(async move {
-            if let Err(e) = connection.await {
-                eprintln!("connection error: {e}");
+        // If there is a connection error, we capture it in this channel and make when
+        // the user next calls one of the functions on the connection in this trait, we
+        // return the error instead of the inner result.
+        let (sender, receiver) = tokio::sync::oneshot::channel();
+        tokio::spawn(async {
+            if let Err(connection_error) = connection.await {
+                let connection_error = diesel::result::Error::from(ErrorHelper(connection_error));
+                if let Err(send_error) = sender.send(connection_error) {
+                    eprintln!("Failed to send connection error through channel, connection must have been dropped: {}", send_error);
+                }
             }
         });
-        Self::try_from(client).await
+        Self::try_from_with_error_receiver(client, receiver).await
     }
 
     fn load<'conn, 'query, T>(&'conn mut self, source: T) -> Self::LoadFuture<'conn, 'query>
@@ -270,11 +279,24 @@ impl AsyncPgConnection {
 
     /// Construct a new `AsyncPgConnection` instance from an existing [`tokio_postgres::Client`]
     pub async fn try_from(conn: tokio_postgres::Client) -> ConnectionResult<Self> {
+        // We create a dummy receiver here. If the user is calling this, they have
+        // created their own client and connection and are handling any error in
+        // the latter themselves.
+        Self::try_from_with_error_receiver(conn, tokio::sync::oneshot::channel().1).await
+    }
+
+    /// Construct a new `AsyncPgConnection` instance from an existing [`tokio_postgres::Client`]
+    /// and a [`tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver`] for receiving an error from the connection.
+    async fn try_from_with_error_receiver(
+        conn: tokio_postgres::Client,
+        error_receiver: tokio::sync::oneshot::Receiver<diesel::result::Error>,
+    ) -> ConnectionResult<Self> {
         let mut conn = Self {
             conn: Arc::new(conn),
             stmt_cache: Arc::new(Mutex::new(StmtCache::new())),
             transaction_state: Arc::new(Mutex::new(AnsiTransactionManager::default())),
             metadata_cache: Arc::new(Mutex::new(PgMetadataCache::new())),
+            error_receiver: Arc::new(Mutex::new(error_receiver)),
         };
         conn.set_config_options()
             .await
@@ -340,7 +362,7 @@ impl AsyncPgConnection {
         let metadata_cache = self.metadata_cache.clone();
         let tm = self.transaction_state.clone();
 
-        async move {
+        let f = async move {
             let sql = sql?;
             let is_safe_to_cache_prepared = is_safe_to_cache_prepared?;
             collect_bind_result?;
@@ -411,6 +433,18 @@ impl AsyncPgConnection {
             let res = callback(raw_connection, stmt.clone(), binds).await;
             let mut tm = tm.lock().await;
             update_transaction_manager_status(res, &mut tm)
+        };
+
+        let er = self.error_receiver.clone();
+        async move {
+            let mut error_receiver = er.lock().await;
+            // While the future (f) is running, at any await point we will check if
+            // there is an error in the channel from the connection. If there is, we
+            // will return that instead and f will get aborted.
+            tokio::select! {
+                error = error_receiver.deref_mut() => Err(error.unwrap()),
+                res = f => res,
+            }
         }
         .boxed()
     }