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Text-to-SQL evaluations misled by gateway errors masquerading as model failures

A common issue in text-to-SQL evaluations involves gateways returning HTTP 200 OK even when an upstream error occurs, such as rate-limiting or timeouts. This misleads evaluation harnesses into scoring these infrastructure failures as model inaccuracies. The solution involves inspecting the response body for error objects before trusting the HTTP status code, ensuring that actual model performance is accurately measured and infrastructure issues are handled appropriately. AI

IMPACT Ensures more accurate benchmarking of LLM text-to-SQL capabilities by correctly identifying infrastructure errors.

RANK_REASON Article details a specific technical issue and solution for evaluating LLM text-to-SQL capabilities.

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Text-to-SQL evaluations misled by gateway errors masquerading as model failures

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Omer Hochman ·

    Your text-to-SQL eval is lying: the gateway returns HTTP 200 with the error in the body

    <p><em>Originally published at <a href="https://nlqdb.com/blog/http-200-error-in-body/?utm_source=devto" rel="noopener noreferrer">nlqdb.com/blog</a></em></p> <p>We were reading a text-to-SQL benchmark score that looked too low. Seven questions per 150-question run came back tagg…