feat(testing): implement template database cloning for MySQL

[CodingAnarchy]

Summary

This PR implements template database cloning for sqlx::test to significantly speed up test runs when using migrations. Instead of running migrations for every test, a template database is created once and cloned for each test.

Before (slow)

For each test:
  CREATE DATABASE test_xyz
  → Run all migrations (slow!)
  → Load fixtures
  → Run test
  → DROP DATABASE

After (fast)

Once per migration set:
  CREATE DATABASE _sqlx_template_<hash>
  → Run all migrations

For each test:
  Clone template to test_xyz (fast!)
  → Load fixtures
  → Run test
  → DROP DATABASE

Implementation Details

Core Infrastructure (sqlx-core/src/testing/mod.rs)

• Add migrations_hash() - computes SHA256 hash of all migration checksums for template naming
• Add template_db_name() - generates template database name from hash
• Extend TestContext with from_template: bool field
• Modify setup_test_db() to skip migrations when cloned from template

MySQL Implementation (sqlx-mysql/src/testing/mod.rs)

• Add _sqlx_test_templates tracking table for template metadata
• Use GET_LOCK() for synchronization during template creation
• Clone via mysqldump/mysql commands (fast) with in-process SQL fallback
• Handle existing template databases from previous runs (idempotent)
• Compatible with both MySQL and MariaDB

Configuration

• Opt-out: Set SQLX_TEST_NO_TEMPLATE=1 to disable template cloning
• Template names include migration hash, so changing migrations automatically creates new templates

Test Plan

• Unit tests for migrations_hash() and template_db_name() functions
• Integration tests verifying template creation and reuse
• Integration tests verifying fixtures work with cloned templates
• CI passes on all MySQL versions (8.4, 8.0, 5.7)
• CI passes on all MariaDB versions (verylatest, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6)
• CI passes on all runtime/TLS combinations

Future Work

• PostgreSQL implementation using native CREATE DATABASE ... TEMPLATE (follow-up PR)
• SQLite implementation using file copy (follow-up PR)

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[abonander]

While I like the idea in theory, I'm not interested in reviewing vibe-coded PRs, sorry.

I have numerous conceptual issues with this PR as well, but I don't see any reason to put the effort into giving a detailed review.

[CodingAnarchy]

@abonander I'm not sure I understand the problem here. This PR amounts to, outside of test code, maybe 200 lines of changes. Dismissing it on the basis of AI assisting is to do a disservice. It also encourages dishonesty - a small change to the commit messages and PR summary and there would be no indication of AI work anyway.

We are running into major problems with running migrations on every test case - hundreds of tests that all take 60+ seconds to run. This is a proposed solution. If I were to submit a non-vibe coded PR with this, would you review it then? It would largely be identical - I did a thorough review of the code myself before submitting this.

I have numerous conceptual issues with this PR

This would actually be useful feedback. How could we address those issues you have with the concept so we can upstream changes that will let us feasibly run tests?

[abonander]

Dismissing it on the basis of AI assisting is to do a disservice. It also encourages dishonesty - a small change to the commit messages and PR summary and there would be no indication of AI work anyway.

I probably wouldn't have even been suspicious had you not gone so far as to have Claude open the PR for you, bypassing our pull request template. Sorry, I just didn't feel like putting more intellectual labor into reviewing it than it took to create.

This would actually be useful feedback

• Shelling out to 2 different binaries you're assuming are installed
• Making the behavior opt-out rather than opt-in
  • Likely a breaking behavior change/major regression considering how much is overlooked
• Ignoring all other connection options (TLS, etc.) when passing to subcommands
  • Not actually tested with a configuration that requires TLS to work (the client-cert tests)
• mysqldump doesn't do anything special, just runs SHOW CREATE ... for every object in the database
• Suppressing errors from subcommands
• in-process fallback only does tables and nothing else (views? triggers? stored procedures?)
• in-process fallback copies table data but mysqldump code path doesn't
• Claims of speedups are completely unqualified ("fast!" isn't sufficiently convincing)
  • Most of the speedup is likely because you're essentially feeding all the DDL to mysql as a single chunk rather than per-file with a wait for the server to respond in-between. This approach could be used for the migrations, too, but is not the default strategy because the possibility for error-recovery is limited.
• Unit tests in an integration test file (code smell)

I did a thorough review of the code myself before submitting this.

How much critical thought did you put into the solution here? Because all the glaring issues really make me wonder.