gastownhall/beads · error

db: GetInfraTypes: %w

Error message

db: GetInfraTypes: %w

What it means

This error wraps a GetConfig(ctx, "types.infra") driver failure when reading the infrastructure-types mapping in GetInfraTypes. It occurs only when the SELECT on the config table fails; an unset or empty value returns an empty map without error. Value formatting problems (bad comma-separated lists) do not produce this error.

Source

Thrown at internal/storage/domain/db/config.go:269

	}
	custom, err := r.GetCustomStatuses(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	out := make([]string, 0, len(builtins)+len(custom))
	for _, s := range builtins {
		out = append(out, string(s))
	}
	for _, c := range custom {
		out = append(out, c.Name)
	}
	return out, nil
}

func (r *configSQLRepositoryImpl) GetInfraTypes(ctx context.Context) (map[string]bool, error) {
	value, err := r.GetConfig(ctx, "types.infra")
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("db: GetInfraTypes: %w", err)
	}
	value = strings.TrimSpace(value)
	if value == "" {
		return map[string]bool{}, nil
	}
	parts := strings.Split(value, ",")
	result := make(map[string]bool, len(parts))
	for _, p := range parts {
		p = strings.TrimSpace(p)
		if p != "" {
			result[p] = true
		}
	}
	return result, nil
}

View on GitHub (pinned to 71377f2769)

Solutions

1. Unwrap the wrapped cause with errors.Is/errors.As.
2. Restore database connectivity and retry.
3. If context cancellation is the cause, adjust timeouts upstream.
4. Confirm the config table is readable on the server.

if err := conn.PingContext(ctx); err != nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("cannot read infra types: database unreachable: %w", err)
}

infra, err := store.GetInfraTypes(ctx)
if err != nil {
    if errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) || errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
        return map[string]bool{}, nil // empty map is a safe default
    }
    return fmt.Errorf("GetInfraTypes: %w", err)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling GetInfraTypes when the database connection is broken, the context is cancelled, or the server returns an error for the types.infra config lookup.

Common situations: Remote Dolt connectivity outages, cancelled request contexts, server errors on the config table during application startup or type-validation flows.

Understand the failure class

Background: Database query failed: Internal Server Error 500s wrapping SQL, Prisma, and connection failures — what to check first — this error's family across 16 libraries.

Related errors

• db: GetAllowedPrefixes: %w
• no database connection available (%s)
• failed to load config: %w
• no database configuration found
• dolt server connection failed: %w

AI-assisted analysis of gastownhall/beads@71377f2769 (2026-08-30). Data as JSON: /api/errors/82bede11e3ccccf9. Report an issue: GitHub.