@rebasepro/server-postgres 0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0 → 0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf

package/dist/services/FetchService.d.ts

@@ -40,52 +40,22 @@ export declare class FetchService {
      * the target relation so actual row data is returned.
      */
     private buildWithConfig;
-    /**
-     * Detect if a many-to-many relation uses a junction table in the Drizzle schema.
-     */
-    private isJunctionRelation;
     /**
      * Get the Drizzle relation name on the junction table that points to the actual target row.
      * For example, for posts_tags junction, this returns "tag_id" (the relation pointing to tags).
      */
     private getJunctionTargetRelationName;
-    /**
-     * Convert a db.query result row (with nested relation objects) to a flat row.
-     * Handles:
-     * - Type normalization (dates, numbers, NaN) via normalizeDbValues
-     * - Converting nested relation objects to { id, path, __type: "relation" } for CMS
-     * - Flattening junction-table many-to-many results
-     *
-     * The row's own address is not among them: it is derived by the consumer
-     * from the collection's primary keys.
-     */
-    private drizzleResultToRow;
     /**
      * Post-fetch joinPath relations for a single flat row.
      * joinPath relations cannot be expressed via Drizzle's `with` config,
      * so they must be loaded separately after the primary query.
      */
     private resolveJoinPathRelations;
-    /**
-     * Post-fetch joinPath relations for a batch of flat rows.
-     * Uses batch fetching to avoid N+1 queries for list views.
-     */
-    private resolveJoinPathRelationsBatch;
     /**
      * Resolves joinPath relations for raw REST rows and directly injects them.
      * Uses RelationService to query the database and maps results back to the flattened objects.
      */
     private resolveJoinPathRelationsBatchRest;
-    /**
-     * Convert a db.query result row to a flat REST-style row with populated relations.
-     *
-     * Every column is copied through under its own name, with the value Postgres
-     * returned. This used to open with a synthesized `id` and then skip the key
-     * column, which renamed it (a `sku` primary key was served as `id`, and `sku`
-     * did not appear at all) and restringified it (`42` → `"42"`). Consumers that
-     * need an address derive it from the collection's primary keys.
-     */
-    private drizzleResultToRestRow;
     /**
      * Build db.query-compatible options from standard fetch options.
      * Handles filter, search, orderBy, limit, and cursor-based pagination.
@@ -116,8 +86,10 @@ export declare class FetchService {
     }): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]>;
     /**
      * Fallback path used when db.query is unavailable.
-     * The primary path uses drizzleResultToRow which handles relation
-     * mapping without N+1 queries.
+     *
+     * The primary path runs the results through `toCmsRow`, which maps
+     * relations from what drizzle already nested — no query per row. This one
+     * has no nesting to read, so it resolves relations itself, in batches.
      *
      * Process raw database results into flat rows with relations.
      */

package/dist/services/RelationService.d.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,40 @@ export declare class RelationService {
     private db;
     private registry;
     constructor(db: DrizzleClient, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry);
+    /**
+     * One target row, as the {@link RelatedRow} everything here returns.
+     *
+     * Eight sites built this by hand, which is how the address came to be the
+     * target's first key column in all eight — one edit, eight places to miss.
+     *
+     * `resolveNested` is the one thing they did not agree on, and the
+     * disagreement was invisible: the single-parent fetches pass `db` and
+     * `registry` to `parseDataFromServer`, so the target's *own* relations get
+     * resolved too, while the batch paths deliberately do not — a query per
+     * target row is the N+1 the batching exists to avoid. Naming the parameter
+     * makes that a decision rather than a difference between two call sites
+     * nobody was comparing.
+     */
+    private toRelatedRow;
+    /**
+     * A WHERE matching any of `parentIds`, by the whole key.
+     *
+     * A single key is an `IN (…)`. A composite one cannot be: matching
+     * `tenant_id IN (1, 1)` collects every row of tenant 1, so two parents that
+     * share their first column each receive the other's relations. It becomes
+     * an OR of ANDs — one exact address per parent — which Postgres indexes the
+     * same way it would a multi-column key lookup.
+     */
+    private parentKeyCondition;
+    /**
+     * Reject a relation that cannot express a composite-keyed parent.
+     *
+     * `localKey` and `foreignKeyOnTarget` are single column names: one column
+     * cannot reference a two-column key, so such a relation has no correct
+     * reading. Left alone it would silently match on the first key column and
+     * hand a tenant's rows to its neighbour — say so instead.
+     */
+    private assertSingleKeyAddressable;
     /**
      * Fetch rows related to a parent row through a specific relation
      */
@@ -72,7 +106,6 @@ export declare class RelationService {
         relationKey: string;
         relation: Relation;
         newValue: unknown;
-        currentId?: string | number;
     }>): Promise<void>;
     /**
      * Handle inverse relations with joinPath

package/dist/services/collection-helpers.d.ts

@@ -24,4 +24,80 @@ export interface DrizzleColumnMeta {
 export declare function getColumnMeta(col: AnyPgColumn): DrizzleColumnMeta;
 export declare function getCollectionByPath(collectionPath: string, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): CollectionConfig;
 export declare function getTableForCollection(collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): PgTable<any>;
+/**
+ * The key columns a collection's rows are addressed by.
+ *
+ * Three tiers, in order: properties marked `isId`, the primary keys of the
+ * drizzle schema, and finally a column literally named `id`. Only the first is
+ * visible to the browser, which is why a key known only to drizzle is reported
+ * at boot — see {@link warnOnKeysTheAdminCannotResolve}.
+ *
+ * Returns `[]` when nothing resolves, rather than throwing. It used to open by
+ * resolving the table, which throws when there is none — so the `isId` tier,
+ * which needs no table at all, was unreachable for exactly the collections
+ * most likely to have no table registered. Every caller that wanted "no keys"
+ * to mean "no keys" had to spell that out in a try/catch.
+ *
+ * Callers that cannot proceed without a key must say so themselves, naming the
+ * collection: an empty array here means "this collection has no address", which
+ * is a different answer in a notification (broadcast a wildcard) than in a save
+ * (fail).
+ */
 export declare function getPrimaryKeys(collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): PrimaryKeyInfo[];
+/**
+ * The key columns, for callers that cannot do their job without one.
+ *
+ * {@link getPrimaryKeys} answers "what keys, if any" and returns `[]` for a
+ * collection with no address. Most of this driver, though, is building a WHERE
+ * clause and has no meaning without a key — for those, an empty array is not an
+ * answer, and indexing `[0]` into it produces `Cannot read properties of
+ * undefined` three frames from where the real problem is. This says what is
+ * wrong and which collection it is wrong about.
+ */
+export declare function requirePrimaryKeys(collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): PrimaryKeyInfo[];
+/**
+ * Collections whose key the *browser* cannot resolve, and what it will do
+ * instead.
+ *
+ * The two sides resolve keys from different evidence. This driver reads, in
+ * order: properties marked `isId`, the primary keys of the Drizzle schema, then
+ * a column literally named `id`. The admin shares the `CollectionConfig` — it
+ * compiles the same collection files into its bundle — but never the Drizzle
+ * schema, so the middle tier is invisible to it.
+ *
+ * Nothing can normalize this at runtime: the server does not serve the admin
+ * its collections, so a key resolved here cannot be handed over there. The
+ * config files are the only thing both sides read, so the fix is an edit to
+ * them, and the most this can do is say exactly which edit.
+ *
+ * Two shapes, and the second is the dangerous one:
+ *
+ * - No `isId`, no `id` property → the admin resolves no address, warns in the
+ *   console, and rows cannot be opened or linked.
+ * - No `isId`, but an `id` property that is *not* the key → the admin addresses
+ *   rows by `id` while this driver reads the address as the real key. Nothing
+ *   errors: the addresses look right and route wrong.
+ */
+export declare function findUnresolvableKeyCollections(collections: CollectionConfig[], registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): {
+    collection: CollectionConfig;
+    keys: PrimaryKeyInfo[];
+    shadowedByIdProperty: boolean;
+}[];
+/**
+ * Report the collections from {@link findUnresolvableKeyCollections} at boot,
+ * with the edit that fixes each one.
+ *
+ * Grouped by failure, not by collection: the shadowed case is a routing bug and
+ * the silent case is a missing feature, and they deserve different urgency.
+ */
+export declare function warnOnKeysTheAdminCannotResolve(collections: CollectionConfig[], registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): void;
+/**
+ * The address of a row: derived from the collection's primary keys, because a
+ * row does not carry one — it is exactly its columns.
+ *
+ * Falls back to a literal `id` column, for a row that reached us from somewhere
+ * other than this driver. Returns `""` when there is no key and no `id` —
+ * callers decide what that means, since "unaddressable" is a different answer
+ * in a notification (broadcast a wildcard) than in a save (fail).
+ */
+export declare function deriveRowAddress(row: Record<string, unknown>, collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): string;

package/dist/services/index.d.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 export { FetchService } from "./FetchService";
 export { PersistService } from "./PersistService";
 export { RelationService } from "./RelationService";
-export { getCollectionByPath, getTableForCollection, getPrimaryKeys, parseIdValues, buildCompositeId } from "./collection-helpers";
+export { getCollectionByPath, getTableForCollection, getPrimaryKeys, deriveRowAddress, parseIdValues, buildCompositeId } from "./collection-helpers";

package/dist/services/realtimeService.d.ts

@@ -177,8 +177,15 @@ export declare class RealtimeService extends EventEmitter implements RealtimePro
     /**
      * Send a lightweight row-level patch to a collection subscriber.
      * The client can merge this into its cached data for instant feedback.
+     *
+     * The key columns ride along: the patch names a row by address, and the
+     * client has to find that row among the ones it cached — which carry
+     * columns and no address. The SDK holds no collection config to derive one
+     * from, so this is the only place the mapping can come from.
      */
     private sendCollectionPatch;
+    /** The key columns of the collection at `path`, if they can be resolved. */
+    private primaryKeysForPath;
     private sendError;
     private sendMessage;
     /**

package/dist/services/row-pipeline.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import { CollectionConfig, Relation } from "@rebasepro/types";
+import { PostgresCollectionRegistry } from "../collections/PostgresCollectionRegistry";
+/**
+ * Turning a drizzle result into a row we serve.
+ *
+ * There are two shapes, and they are the same walk. Both take a row whose
+ * relation fields hold nested objects, both unwrap junction rows to reach the
+ * target behind them, and both leave every other column alone. They differ only
+ * in what they put where the relation was:
+ *
+ * - `"ref"` — a `{ id, path, __type: "relation" }` reference carrying the
+ *   target's values. This is what the admin renders.
+ * - `"inline"` — the target's own columns, flat. This is what REST serves.
+ *
+ * They used to be two functions that happened to agree, and the agreement was
+ * not enforced by anything: the row-identity bug had to be fixed five times
+ * across differently-shaped copies of this walk, and one of the copies was
+ * dead code nobody had noticed. Whatever the next cross-cutting change is, it
+ * is one edit here.
+ */
+export type RelationStyle = "ref" | "inline";
+/**
+ * Whether a many-relation reaches its target through a junction table.
+ *
+ * Also used to build the drizzle `with` config, which is why it is exported:
+ * the query has to nest one level deeper for a junction, and the row walk has
+ * to unwrap that same level back out.
+ */
+export declare function isJunctionRelation(relation: Relation): boolean;
+/**
+ * The address a relation ref points at.
+ *
+ * The whole key, not its first column: a composite-keyed target addressed by
+ * `tenant_id` alone points at every row that shares it. A target whose key
+ * cannot be resolved at all used to throw here — reading `[0]` of an empty
+ * array — taking down the parent's fetch over a relation it may not even have
+ * asked for. The first column is a guess, but a ref that resolves to nothing
+ * beats no rows at all.
+ */
+export declare function relationTargetAddress(targetRow: Record<string, unknown>, targetCollection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): string;
+/**
+ * The row the admin renders: every column, with relations as references.
+ *
+ * Values are normalized (dates, numbers, NaN) because the admin's view-model
+ * expects real types. The row's own address is *not* among the columns — it is
+ * derived by the consumer from the collection's primary keys.
+ */
+export declare function toCmsRow(row: Record<string, unknown>, collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): Record<string, unknown>;
+/**
+ * The row REST serves: every column under its own name, with the value Postgres
+ * returned, and relations inlined as the target's columns.
+ *
+ * Values are the ones the database returned, except where that contradicts the
+ * declared type: a `number` property is served as a number (see
+ * {@link coerceDeclaredNumber}). Dates stay as the database returned them —
+ * JSON has its own opinions about dates that the admin's view-model does not
+ * share.
+ *
+ * Keyed by the row rather than by the relation list — a REST fetch only loads
+ * the relations `include` asked for, so the row is the authority on which are
+ * actually there.
+ */
+export declare function toRestRow(row: Record<string, unknown>, collection: CollectionConfig, registry: PostgresCollectionRegistry): Record<string, unknown>;

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@rebasepro/server-postgres",
   "type": "module",
-  "version": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0",
+  "version": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf",
   "description": "PostgreSQL data source backend implementation for Rebase with Drizzle ORM",
   "funding": {
     "url": "https://github.com/sponsors/rebaseco"
@@ -71,18 +71,20 @@
     "execa": "^9.6.1",
     "pg": "^8.21.0",
     "ws": "^8.21.0",
-    "@rebasepro/codegen": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0",
-    "@rebasepro/types": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0",
-    "@rebasepro/utils": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0",
-    "@rebasepro/server": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0",
-    "@rebasepro/common": "0.9.1-canary.ad25bc0"
+    "@rebasepro/codegen": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf",
+    "@rebasepro/common": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf",
+    "@rebasepro/server": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf",
+    "@rebasepro/types": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf",
+    "@rebasepro/utils": "0.9.1-canary.b10dcdf"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "@hono/node-server": "^2.0.9",
     "@types/jest": "^30.0.0",
     "@types/node": "^25.9.3",
     "@types/pg": "^8.20.0",
     "@types/ws": "^8.18.1",
     "@vitejs/plugin-react": "^6.0.2",
+    "hono": "^4.12.25",
     "jest": "^30.4.2",
     "ts-jest": "^29.4.11",
     "typescript": "^6.0.3",
@@ -103,6 +105,7 @@
     "test:lint": "eslint \"src/**\" --quiet",
     "test": "jest --passWithNoTests",
     "test:e2e": "vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts",
-    "clean": "rm -rf dist && find ./src -name '*.js' -type f | xargs rm -f"
+    "clean": "rm -rf dist && find ./src -name '*.js' -type f | xargs rm -f",
+    "smoke:baas": "tsx scripts/smoke-baas.ts"
   }
 }

package/src/PostgresBackendDriver.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import {
 import { sql as drizzleSql } from "drizzle-orm";
 import { buildPropertyCallbacks, buildSdkData, resolveCollectionRelations, updateDateAutoValues } from "@rebasepro/common";
 import { PostgresCollectionRegistry } from "./collections/PostgresCollectionRegistry";
+import { deriveRowAddress } from "./services/collection-helpers";
 import { HistoryService } from "./history/HistoryService";
 import { mergeDeep } from "@rebasepro/utils";
 import { logger } from "@rebasepro/server";
@@ -547,13 +548,26 @@ export class PostgresBackendDriver implements DataDriver {
         let updatedValues = values;
         const contextForCallback = this.buildCallContext();
 
-        // Fetch previous values for callbacks AND history recording
+        // Fetch previous values for callbacks AND history recording. Same walk
+        // as the saved row the callbacks receive (`fetchOneForRest`), so
+        // `values` and `previousValues` compare like with like — a Date on one
+        // side and its ISO string on the other reads as a change that never
+        // happened.
         let previousValuesForHistory: Partial<M> | undefined;
         if (status === "existing" && id) {
-            const existing = await this.dataService.fetchOne<M>(path, id, resolvedCollection?.databaseId);
-            if (existing) {
-                const { id: _existingId, ...existingValues } = existing;
-                previousValuesForHistory = existingValues as Partial<M>;
+            try {
+                const existing = await this.dataService.getFetchService()
+                    .fetchOneForRest(path, id, undefined, resolvedCollection?.databaseId);
+                if (existing) {
+                    const { id: _existingId, ...existingValues } = existing;
+                    previousValuesForHistory = existingValues as Partial<M>;
+                }
+            } catch (err) {
+                // Best-effort enrichment: callbacks and history run without
+                // previous values rather than the save failing on a read the
+                // write itself does not need (e.g. a collection whose key the
+                // registry cannot resolve).
+                logger.debug(`[save] Could not fetch previous values for "${path}"`, { detail: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) });
             }
         }
 
@@ -652,8 +666,19 @@ export class PostgresBackendDriver implements DataDriver {
                 }
             }
 
-            const savedId = savedRow.id as string | number;
-            const { id: _savedId, ...savedValues } = savedRow;
+            // The row is exactly its columns, so its address is derived, not read
+            // off it: `savedRow.id` is undefined for every table whose key is not
+            // literally named `id`, and is ordinary data for a table that has such
+            // a column without it being the key.
+            const savedId = deriveRowAddress(
+                savedRow,
+                (resolvedCollection ?? collection) as CollectionConfig,
+                this.registry
+            );
+            // `values` are the row's columns — all of them. For an `id`-keyed table
+            // that includes `id`, which used to be stripped here because it was the
+            // synthesized address rather than the column it now is.
+            const savedValues = savedRow;
 
             if (globalCallbacks?.afterSave || callbacks?.afterSave || propertyCallbacks?.afterSave) {
                 // 1. Global callbacks first
@@ -698,7 +723,7 @@ export class PostgresBackendDriver implements DataDriver {
             if (this.historyService && resolvedCollection?.history) {
                 this.historyService.recordHistory({
                     tableName: path,
-                    id: savedId.toString(),
+                    id: savedId,
                     action: status === "new" ? "create" : "update",
                     values: savedValues as Record<string, unknown>,
                     previousValues: previousValuesForHistory as Record<string, unknown> | undefined,
@@ -710,14 +735,14 @@ export class PostgresBackendDriver implements DataDriver {
             if (this._deferNotifications) {
                 this._pendingNotifications.push({
                     path,
-                    id: savedId.toString(),
+                    id: savedId,
                     row: savedRow,
                     databaseId: resolvedCollection?.databaseId
                 });
             } else {
                 await this.realtimeService.notifyUpdate(
                     path,
-                    savedId.toString(),
+                    savedId,
                     savedRow,
                     resolvedCollection?.databaseId
                 );
@@ -843,7 +868,10 @@ export class PostgresBackendDriver implements DataDriver {
                                                           }: DeleteProps<M>): Promise<void> {
 
         const targetPath = row.path;
-        const targetRow: Record<string, unknown> = { id: row.id, ...(row.values ?? {}) };
+        // The callbacks' `row` is the row: its columns, nothing else. The address
+        // travels beside it as `id`, so merging it in here only ever invented an
+        // `id` field for tables that have no such column.
+        const targetRow: Record<string, unknown> = { ...(row.values ?? {}) };
 
         // Resolve from backend registry to restore callbacks lost during WebSocket serialization
         const {

package/src/PostgresBootstrapper.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Implements the `BackendBootstrapper` interface for PostgreSQL.
  */
 
-import { getTableName, isTable, Relations, sql } from "drizzle-orm";
+import { Relations, sql } from "drizzle-orm";
 import { NodePgDatabase } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres";
 import { PgEnum, PgTable } from "drizzle-orm/pg-core";
 import type { RebasePgTable } from "./types";
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
 } from "@rebasepro/types";
 import { PostgresBackendDriver } from "./PostgresBackendDriver";
 import { RealtimeService } from "./services/realtimeService";
+import { buildCollectionRegistry } from "./collections/buildRegistry";
 import { DatabasePoolManager } from "./databasePoolManager";
 import { PostgresCollectionRegistry } from "./collections/PostgresCollectionRegistry";
 import { createEmailService, type EmailConfig, type EmailService, logger } from "@rebasepro/server";
@@ -64,6 +65,15 @@ export interface PostgresDriverInternals {
     realtimeService: RealtimeService;
     driver: PostgresBackendDriver;
     poolManager?: DatabasePoolManager;
+    /**
+     * Attach CDC triggers to tables that did not exist when the driver
+     * bootstrapped. Only set when database-level capture is actually active.
+     *
+     * Auth owns its own tables and creates them later in boot, so at driver
+     * bootstrap they are legitimately missing and get skipped; without this
+     * they would stay uninstrumented until the next restart.
+     */
+    provisionCdcForTables?: (tables: CdcTableRef[]) => Promise<void>;
 }
 
 // Re-export from shared CLI error utilities
@@ -161,30 +171,17 @@ export function createPostgresBootstrapper(pgConfig: PostgresDriverConfig): Back
             }
 
             const activeCollections = introspectedCollections ?? collections;
-
-            // Create a fresh registry for this driver
-            const registry = new PostgresCollectionRegistry();
-            if (activeCollections) {
-                registry.registerMultiple(activeCollections);
-                logger.info(`📋 [PostgresRegistry] Registered ${registry.getCollections().length} collections: [${registry.getCollections().map(c => c.slug).join(", ")}]`);
-            }
-
             const schemaTables = introspectedTables ?? pgConfig.schema?.tables;
-
-            // Register tables
-            if (schemaTables) {
-                Object.values(schemaTables).forEach((table) => {
-                    if (isTable(table)) {
-                        const tableName = getTableName(table);
-                        registry.registerTable(table as PgTable, tableName);
-                    }
-                });
-            }
-
-            if (pgConfig.schema?.enums) registry.registerEnums(pgConfig.schema.enums as Record<string, PgEnum<[string, ...string[]]>>);
-
             const schemaRelations = introspectedRelations ?? (pgConfig.schema?.relations as Record<string, Relations> | undefined);
-            if (schemaRelations) registry.registerRelations(schemaRelations);
+
+            // Create a fresh registry for this driver. Registration order is
+            // load-bearing, so it lives in one place — see `buildCollectionRegistry`.
+            const registry = buildCollectionRegistry({
+                collections: activeCollections,
+                tables: schemaTables,
+                enums: pgConfig.schema?.enums as Record<string, PgEnum<[string, ...string[]]>> | undefined,
+                relations: schemaRelations
+            });
 
             // Patch Drizzle's PgArray columns to handle NULL values safely.
             // Drizzle's mapFromDriverValue crashes with "value.map is not a function"
@@ -346,6 +343,7 @@ export function createPostgresBootstrapper(pgConfig: PostgresDriverConfig): Back
             const wantsCdc = cdcMode !== "off";
             const explicitCdc = cdcMode === "trigger" || cdcMode === "wal";
             let cdcEnabled = false;
+            let provisionCdcForTables: PostgresDriverInternals["provisionCdcForTables"];
 
             if (wantsCdc && !directUrl) {
                 const reason = "no direct database connection is available for the realtime LISTEN client (set DATABASE_DIRECT_URL)";
@@ -379,6 +377,11 @@ export function createPostgresBootstrapper(pgConfig: PostgresDriverConfig): Back
                     await provisionTriggerCdc(cdcRunSql, cdcTables);
                     await realtimeService.enableCdc(directUrl);
                     cdcEnabled = true;
+                    // Boot steps that create their own tables (auth) run after
+                    // this one and use it to instrument what they just created.
+                    provisionCdcForTables = async (tables) => {
+                        await provisionTriggerCdc(cdcRunSql, tables);
+                    };
                     logger.info(
                         `📡 [CDC] Realtime source = database-level change capture (mode: ${cdcMode === "wal" ? "wal→trigger" : "trigger"}). ` +
                         `All writes now emit realtime events regardless of origin.`
@@ -429,6 +432,14 @@ export function createPostgresBootstrapper(pgConfig: PostgresDriverConfig): Back
                     );
                     const missing: Array<{ slug: string; table: string }> = [];
                     for (const col of registeredCollections) {
+                        // Auth owns its table and creates it later in this same
+                        // boot (initializeAuth → ensureAuthTablesExist), so it is
+                        // legitimately absent right now. Reporting it as drift
+                        // tells the user to `db:push` a table that is about to
+                        // exist — and on an introspected database, one that the
+                        // database was never supposed to hold.
+                        if ((col as { auth?: { enabled?: boolean } }).auth?.enabled) continue;
+
                         const schemaName = "schema" in col && col.schema ? col.schema : "public";
                         const tableName = registry.hasTableForCollection(
                             col.table ?? col.slug
@@ -443,8 +454,10 @@ export function createPostgresBootstrapper(pgConfig: PostgresDriverConfig): Back
                         const checkName = resolvedTable ?? tableName;
                         const fullCheckName = schemaName === "public" ? checkName : `${schemaName}.${checkName}`;
                         if (!dbTables.has(fullCheckName)) {
+                            // Report what was actually looked up: an unqualified
+                            // "users" sends people hunting for public.users.
                             missing.push({ slug: col.slug,
-table: checkName });
+table: fullCheckName });
                         }
                     }
                     if (missing.length > 0) {
@@ -478,7 +491,8 @@ table: checkName });
                 registry,
                 realtimeService,
                 driver,
-                poolManager
+                poolManager,
+                provisionCdcForTables
             };
 
             return {
@@ -507,6 +521,29 @@ table: checkName });
             // ensureAuthTablesExist works with the collection abstraction — no Drizzle leakage.
             await ensureAuthTablesExist(db, authCollection);
 
+            // The driver bootstrapped before these tables existed, so CDC skipped
+            // them. Instrument them now, or writes to the user table emit no
+            // realtime events until the next restart.
+            if (authCollection && internals.provisionCdcForTables) {
+                const authSchema = "schema" in authCollection && typeof authCollection.schema === "string"
+                    ? authCollection.schema
+                    : "rebase";
+                const authTable = "table" in authCollection && typeof authCollection.table === "string"
+                    ? authCollection.table
+                    : authCollection.slug;
+                if (authTable) {
+                    try {
+                        await internals.provisionCdcForTables([{ schema: authSchema, table: authTable }]);
+                    } catch (err) {
+                        logger.warn(
+                            `⚠️ [CDC] Could not attach change-capture to the auth table "${authSchema}.${authTable}" — ` +
+                            "writes to it won't emit database-level events.",
+                            { detail: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) }
+                        );
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
             let emailService: EmailService | undefined;
             if (authConfig.email) {
                 emailService = createEmailService(authConfig.email as EmailConfig);