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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package pgruntime
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"go.xyrillian.de/gg/assert"
+	"go.xyrillian.de/gg/errext"
+	"go.xyrillian.de/gg/gsql"
+)
+
+// Connector describes how to connect to a PostgreSQL database given a [libpq-style connection URI].
+// This type acts as a dependency injection surface, abstracting the different ways in which different database drivers and libraries perform connection.
+//
+// [libpq-style connection URI]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING-URIS
+type Connector[T gsql.ConnectionHandle] func(ctx context.Context, dbURL string) (T, error)
+
+// StdConnector returns a [Connector] for database/sql drivers.
+// When used with [lib/pq], the driver name must be "postgres".
+func StdConnector(driverName string) Connector[*gsql.DB] {
+	return func(ctx context.Context, dbURL string) (*gsql.DB, error) {
+		db, err := sql.Open(driverName, dbURL)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return gsql.NewDB(db), nil
+	}
+}
+
+// Connect connects to a PostgreSQL database.
+func (c Connector[T]) Connect(ctx context.Context, target ConnectionTarget, behavior ConnectionBehavior) (T, error) {
+	var none T // shorthand for error return paths
+
+	u, err := target.IntoURL()
+	if err != nil {
+		return none, err
+	}
+	db, err := c(ctx, u.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		return none, err
+	}
+	err = behavior.applyTo(ctx, db)
+	if err != nil {
+		return none, errext.WithCleanup(err, "db.Close", db.GSQLClose())
+	}
+	return db, nil
+}
+
+// ConnectForTest connects to the test database server managed by [WithTestDB].
+//
+// Each test will run in its own separate database (whose name is the same as t.Name()),
+// so it is safe to mark tests as t.Parallel() to run multiple tests within the same package concurrently.
+// ConnectForTest will always drop and recreate the database to ensure deterministic test behavior.
+//
+// Some tests require setting up multiple separate connections to the same database.
+// The second return argument can be be used with [Connector.Connect] to obtain additional connections as needed.
+func (c Connector[T]) ConnectForTest(t assert.TestingTB, behavior ConnectionBehavior) (T, ConnectionTarget) {
+	ctx := t.Context()
+
+	// normalize t.Name() into an acceptable database name for PostgreSQL
+	//   - only alphanumerics and underscore -> replace all other symbols with _
+	//   - max 63 chars -> reject longer names
+	dbName := strings.ToLower(t.Name())
+	dbName = regexp.MustCompile(`[^a-z_]`).ReplaceAllString(dbName, "_")
+	if len(dbName) > 63 {
+		t.Fatalf("cannot use t.Name() = %q (normalized to %q) as a database name because it is longer than 63 chars", t.Name(), dbName)
+	}
+
+	// connect to "postgres" database for the DROP/CREATE DATABASE queries
+	target := ConnectionTarget{
+		HostName:          "127.0.0.1",
+		Port:              testdbPort,
+		UserName:          testdbUserName,
+		DatabaseName:      "postgres",
+		ConnectionOptions: "sslmode=disable",
+	}
+	err := c.prepareTestDatabase(ctx, target, dbName)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err.Error())
+	}
+
+	// connect to actual test database
+	target.DatabaseName = dbName
+	handle, err := c.Connect(ctx, target, behavior)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err.Error())
+	}
+	return handle, target
+}
+
+func (c Connector[T]) prepareTestDatabase(ctx context.Context, target ConnectionTarget, dbName string) error {
+	u, err := target.IntoURL()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	db, err := c(ctx, u.String())
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w (if this error is about the database server not running, check if your TestMain() calls pgruntime.WithTestDB())", err)
+	}
+	_, err = execQuery(ctx, db, "DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS "+quoteIdentifier(dbName), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errext.WithCleanup(err, "db.Close", db.GSQLClose())
+	}
+	_, err = execQuery(ctx, db, "CREATE DATABASE "+quoteIdentifier(dbName), nil)
+	return errext.WithCleanup(err, "db.Close", db.GSQLClose())
+}