turbine-orm 0.51.0 → 0.52.0

package/dist/cjs/nested-write.d.ts

@@ -101,6 +101,37 @@ export declare function hasRelationFields(data: Record<string, unknown>, tableMe
  * Handles composite keys. Returns a new object (does not mutate input).
  */
 export declare function injectForeignKey(childData: Record<string, unknown>, relation: RelationDef, parentRow: Record<string, unknown>, schema: SchemaMetadata): Record<string, unknown>;
+/**
+ * Split rows destined for `createMany` into CONTIGUOUS runs that each name the
+ * same fields.
+ *
+ * `createMany` compiles ONE statement whose column list comes from the first
+ * row, so it refuses a batch whose rows disagree about which fields they name
+ * (`assertUniformCreateManyRows` in query/writes.ts): a field a later row omits
+ * would be bound as NULL over that column's default, and a field only a later
+ * row names would be dropped. Rows that arrive as ordinary user input, a nested
+ * `create: [...]` array or a Prisma-shaped `createMany` on the compat layer, are
+ * allowed to mix shapes, so the caller splits the batch instead of refusing it
+ * and issues one `createMany` per run. Every run is internally uniform, so the
+ * refusal still stands where it matters and none of the corruption it exists to
+ * stop becomes reachable.
+ *
+ * Runs are CONTIGUOUS rather than grouped by shape across the whole array: one
+ * statement inserted the rows in array order, and running contiguous runs in
+ * order keeps that, so generated keys stay ascending with the caller's array.
+ * Grouping non-adjacent rows would batch harder (`A B A B` in two statements
+ * rather than four) at the cost of reordering rows, which is observable through
+ * any server-assigned sequence.
+ *
+ * A uniform array, the overwhelmingly common shape, yields exactly one run
+ * holding the ORIGINAL array, so the caller makes the one call it always made.
+ *
+ * A key whose value is `undefined` is not named, matching `definedKeys` in
+ * query/writes.ts (and single-row `create`).
+ *
+ * @internal shared by the nested-write batch path and turbine-orm/prisma-compat.
+ */
+export declare function createManyShapeRuns<T extends Record<string, unknown>>(rows: T[]): T[][];
 /**
  * Tree-walking create: inserts the parent row, then processes each relation
  * operation (create, connect, connectOrCreate), and finally reads back the

package/dist/cjs/nested-write.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
 exports.extractRelationFields = extractRelationFields;
 exports.hasRelationFields = hasRelationFields;
 exports.injectForeignKey = injectForeignKey;
+exports.createManyShapeRuns = createManyShapeRuns;
 exports.executeNestedCreate = executeNestedCreate;
 exports.executeNestedUpdate = executeNestedUpdate;
 const errors_js_1 = require("./errors.js");
@@ -86,6 +87,72 @@ function injectForeignKey(childData, relation, parentRow, schema) {
     }
     return result;
 }
+/**
+ * Split rows destined for `createMany` into CONTIGUOUS runs that each name the
+ * same fields.
+ *
+ * `createMany` compiles ONE statement whose column list comes from the first
+ * row, so it refuses a batch whose rows disagree about which fields they name
+ * (`assertUniformCreateManyRows` in query/writes.ts): a field a later row omits
+ * would be bound as NULL over that column's default, and a field only a later
+ * row names would be dropped. Rows that arrive as ordinary user input, a nested
+ * `create: [...]` array or a Prisma-shaped `createMany` on the compat layer, are
+ * allowed to mix shapes, so the caller splits the batch instead of refusing it
+ * and issues one `createMany` per run. Every run is internally uniform, so the
+ * refusal still stands where it matters and none of the corruption it exists to
+ * stop becomes reachable.
+ *
+ * Runs are CONTIGUOUS rather than grouped by shape across the whole array: one
+ * statement inserted the rows in array order, and running contiguous runs in
+ * order keeps that, so generated keys stay ascending with the caller's array.
+ * Grouping non-adjacent rows would batch harder (`A B A B` in two statements
+ * rather than four) at the cost of reordering rows, which is observable through
+ * any server-assigned sequence.
+ *
+ * A uniform array, the overwhelmingly common shape, yields exactly one run
+ * holding the ORIGINAL array, so the caller makes the one call it always made.
+ *
+ * A key whose value is `undefined` is not named, matching `definedKeys` in
+ * query/writes.ts (and single-row `create`).
+ *
+ * @internal shared by the nested-write batch path and turbine-orm/prisma-compat.
+ */
+function createManyShapeRuns(rows) {
+    if (rows.length === 0)
+        return [];
+    const runs = [];
+    let current = [];
+    let currentShape = '';
+    for (const row of rows) {
+        const shape = rowShapeKey(row);
+        if (current.length === 0) {
+            currentShape = shape;
+        }
+        else if (shape !== currentShape) {
+            runs.push(current);
+            current = [];
+            currentShape = shape;
+        }
+        current.push(row);
+    }
+    runs.push(current);
+    // One run means every row agreed: hand back the caller's own array so the
+    // resulting call is indistinguishable from the ungrouped one.
+    return runs.length === 1 ? [rows] : runs;
+}
+/**
+ * Order-independent identity of the fields a row names. Each key is written
+ * length-prefixed so no delimiter can appear inside one: a property name may
+ * legally contain any character at all, so a plain join would let two distinct
+ * key sets collide on the same string.
+ */
+function rowShapeKey(row) {
+    return Object.keys(row)
+        .filter((k) => row[k] !== undefined)
+        .sort()
+        .map((k) => `${k.length}:${k}`)
+        .join(',');
+}
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Internal helpers
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -841,9 +908,20 @@ async function processHasManyCreate(ctx, rel, ops, parentRow, depth, path, relNa
                 }
             }
             else {
-                // Batch via createMany (UNNEST), fast path
+                // Batch via createMany (UNNEST), fast path.
+                //
+                // A nested `create: [...]` array is ordinary user input and may
+                // legitimately mix row shapes (`[{ title }, { title, published }]`),
+                // which one createMany cannot express, see createManyShapeRuns. Split
+                // it into contiguous same-shape runs and issue one createMany per run:
+                // every run stays uniform, so an omitted field takes its column default
+                // instead of being written as NULL, and the rows still reach the
+                // database in the caller's array order exactly as the single statement
+                // put them there. A uniform array is one run and one identical call.
                 const injected = items.map((item) => injectForeignKey(item, rel, parentRow, ctx.schema));
-                await ctx.tx.table(rel.to).createMany({ data: injected });
+                for (const run of createManyShapeRuns(injected)) {
+                    await ctx.tx.table(rel.to).createMany({ data: run });
+                }
             }
         }
     }

package/dist/cjs/powdb-introspect.d.ts

@@ -45,7 +45,16 @@
  *     round-trip; only plain `unique`/`index` columns appear in `indexes`.
  *   - `datetime` / `uuid` / `bytes` columns map to read-oriented TS types
  *     (`Date` / `string` / `Uint8Array`). Turbine never emits those PowQL types
- *     on write, so writing to such a column may not round-trip.
+ *     on write, so writing to such a column may not round-trip. This introspector
+ *     is the ONLY producer of `dialectType: 'datetime'` metadata, and a predicate
+ *     on such a column is version-gated: comparing it against the integer
+ *     microseconds Turbine binds was silently wrong below engine 0.20, so those
+ *     predicates raise a typed E017 there rather than being answered wrongly (see
+ *     `PowdbCapabilities.datetimeCompare`). The `in` / `not in` list forms are
+ *     still wrong upstream at 0.20, so Turbine never emits one for such a column:
+ *     it compiles to the equality chain the engine answers correctly, bounded by
+ *     `MAX_POWQL_DATETIME_TERMS`. Reads, ordering, grouping and null checks on
+ *     the column are unaffected.
  *
  * v1 is a PROGRAMMATIC API (exported from `turbine-orm/powdb`); the CLI's
  * `turbine generate` still defaults to Postgres. Routing a `powdb://` URL

package/dist/cjs/powdb-introspect.js

@@ -46,7 +46,16 @@
  *     round-trip; only plain `unique`/`index` columns appear in `indexes`.
  *   - `datetime` / `uuid` / `bytes` columns map to read-oriented TS types
  *     (`Date` / `string` / `Uint8Array`). Turbine never emits those PowQL types
- *     on write, so writing to such a column may not round-trip.
+ *     on write, so writing to such a column may not round-trip. This introspector
+ *     is the ONLY producer of `dialectType: 'datetime'` metadata, and a predicate
+ *     on such a column is version-gated: comparing it against the integer
+ *     microseconds Turbine binds was silently wrong below engine 0.20, so those
+ *     predicates raise a typed E017 there rather than being answered wrongly (see
+ *     `PowdbCapabilities.datetimeCompare`). The `in` / `not in` list forms are
+ *     still wrong upstream at 0.20, so Turbine never emits one for such a column:
+ *     it compiles to the equality chain the engine answers correctly, bounded by
+ *     `MAX_POWQL_DATETIME_TERMS`. Reads, ordering, grouping and null checks on
+ *     the column are unaffected.
  *
  * v1 is a PROGRAMMATIC API (exported from `turbine-orm/powdb`); the CLI's
  * `turbine generate` still defaults to Postgres. Routing a `powdb://` URL

package/dist/cjs/powdb.d.ts

@@ -290,11 +290,70 @@ export interface PowdbCapabilities {
      * ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES: it must only light up behind a real version probe.
      */
     linkPaths: boolean;
+    /**
+     * ≥ 0.20: a comparison between a `datetime` column and an integer timestamp
+     * literal evaluates as microseconds. Below 0.20 that pairing was unhandled and
+     * fell back to comparing TYPE TAGS (every DateTime sorted above every Int), so
+     * `>` matched every non-null row, `=` and `<` matched none, and the answer
+     * additionally depended on whether the column carried an index. Turbine binds
+     * a JS `Date` as int micros, so that is exactly the shape it emits: every
+     * datetime predicate was silently wrong on an older engine.
+     *
+     * The `in` / `not in` LIST form is a separate, still-open engine bug that 0.20
+     * did NOT fix, so this flag does not unlock it: a datetime `in` list is
+     * COMPILED AWAY into the equality chain the engine does answer correctly (see
+     * `PowqlInterface.buildInList`). That expansion needs working binary
+     * comparisons, so it too sits behind this flag.
+     *
+     * Predominantly a refusal gate, but the `in` rewrite makes it a (bounded)
+     * generation flip as well. It stays ON in {@link ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES}
+     * anyway: with the flag OFF the datetime paths do not fall back to some other
+     * SQL, they refuse outright, so a hand-constructed pool defaulting to OFF
+     * would break datetime queries that work rather than protect anything.
+     */
+    datetimeCompare: boolean;
+    /**
+     * ≥ 0.20: `count(T { .col })` counts non-null values of `.col` (SQL's
+     * `COUNT(col)`), which is what Turbine's per-field `_count` means. Below 0.20
+     * both frontends ignored the projection and returned the ROW count, so
+     * `aggregate({ _count: { field: true } })` silently disagreed with every SQL
+     * engine on a nullable column. `count(T)` / `_count: true` is unaffected on
+     * every version. Refusal-only gate (the emitted PowQL does not change).
+     */
+    projectedCountNonNull: boolean;
     /** Networked only: server ≥ 0.13 AND the client exposes `queryNativeRaw`. */
     nativeRaw: boolean;
 }
+/**
+ * PowQL's parser bounds the SHAPE of the AST it produces, not just its own
+ * recursion: an `and` / `or` chain is parsed iteratively but re-wraps its
+ * accumulator once per term, so a flat chain counts against the same 64-level
+ * nesting budget as nested parentheses (PowDB 0.20 security fix, an unbounded
+ * chain overflowed the stack in a later recursive walk).
+ *
+ * The practical ceiling for a Turbine-generated predicate is therefore around
+ * **63 terms in one `OR` / `AND` array at the top level**, and fewer inside a
+ * nested projection block (measured: 63 flat, 61 one level of parens deep),
+ * because the budget is shared with whatever depth the predicate sits at.
+ * Turbine does NOT pre-check this client-side: the true remaining budget
+ * depends on the engine's parse depth at that point, so a client-side estimate
+ * would refuse valid queries. The engine's refusal is mapped to a typed
+ * {@link ValidationError} with a split-the-array hint instead (see
+ * {@link wrapPowdbError}).
+ *
+ * A literal `in (a, b, c, …)` list is a single flat node, NOT a chain, so it
+ * does not count against the budget (verified to 5,000 elements). Turbine's
+ * relation-key chunking (`MAX_RELATION_KEYS`) is unaffected.
+ *
+ * The one exception is a key list on a PowDB-native `datetime` column, which
+ * cannot use the list form at all (the engine still compares it by type tag) and
+ * is expanded into exactly such a chain. Those lists ARE pre-checked and chunked,
+ * against a deliberately conservative cap, see `MAX_POWQL_DATETIME_TERMS` in
+ * powql.ts.
+ */
+export declare const POWQL_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH = 64;
 /** The feature-gate capability keys (everything except the version/nativeRaw metadata). */
-type PowdbFeatureKey = 'jsonDocs' | 'docFieldIndexes' | 'introspection' | 'serverJoins' | 'nestedProjections' | 'entityLinks' | 'linkIntrospection' | 'linkPaths';
+type PowdbFeatureKey = 'jsonDocs' | 'docFieldIndexes' | 'introspection' | 'serverJoins' | 'nestedProjections' | 'entityLinks' | 'linkIntrospection' | 'linkPaths' | 'datetimeCompare' | 'projectedCountNonNull';
 /**
  * Trusted-caller default: every FEATURE gate on, engine version unknown. Used
  * for a directly-constructed {@link PowdbPool} / {@link PowdbEmbeddedPool} that
@@ -312,6 +371,14 @@ type PowdbFeatureKey = 'jsonDocs' | 'docFieldIndexes' | 'introspection' | 'serve
  * projections), and `linkIntrospection` is only meaningful once genuinely
  * probed, so both must come from a real version resolution, never a bare
  * construction.
+ * `datetimeCompare` / `projectedCountNonNull` stay ON here for the same
+ * trusted-caller reason as `jsonDocs` and `serverJoins`. Neither is a fallback
+ * gate: with the flag OFF the affected query is REFUSED, not served by some
+ * other statement, so defaulting them off would break working queries rather
+ * than protect anything. Every path that can learn the engine version
+ * (`turbinePowDB`, embedded or networked) resolves them from a real probe; this
+ * fallback only covers a hand-constructed or injected pool, whose owner is
+ * asserting the engine is current.
  */
 export declare const ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES: PowdbCapabilities;
 /**
@@ -327,8 +394,18 @@ export declare function capabilitiesFromVersion(version: string | undefined | nu
  * Throw a version-hinting {@link UnsupportedFeatureError} (E017) when a gated
  * PowQL feature is used on an engine that does not support it. Keeps old engines
  * getting clean typed errors instead of raw PowQL parse failures.
+ *
+ * The error's first sentence already names the feature (`<feature> is
+ * unsupported on "PowDB".`), so the hint says "Requires PowDB >= x" rather than
+ * repeating the label: a long feature description read twice in one message
+ * (`per-field \`_count\` … is unsupported … per-field \`_count\` … requires …`)
+ * buries the version floor that is the actionable part.
+ *
+ * `extra` appends one more sentence for gates that have a workaround worth
+ * naming (e.g. the read path that answers the same query without the gated
+ * comparison).
  */
-export declare function requireCapability(caps: PowdbCapabilities, key: PowdbFeatureKey, feature: string): void;
+export declare function requireCapability(caps: PowdbCapabilities, key: PowdbFeatureKey, feature: string, extra?: string): void;
 /**
  * PowQL column types Turbine emits: the four writable scalars plus PowDB's
  * native `json` document type (added to the map in the 0.12/0.13 parity round,
@@ -357,6 +434,23 @@ export declare function isJsonColumn(col: ColumnMetadata): boolean;
  * Array (non-json) and bytes columns throw, they have no PowDB equivalent.
  */
 export declare function powqlColumnType(col: ColumnMetadata): PowqlType;
+/**
+ * Is this column stored in PowDB's NATIVE `datetime` type (as opposed to the
+ * `int` epoch micros Turbine's own DDL emits for a `Date` column)?
+ *
+ * Only the literal PowQL type name counts. `powqlColumnType` never returns
+ * `datetime`, so a Turbine-provisioned table can never have one; the shapes that
+ * do are a table created outside Turbine and read back through
+ * `introspectPowdbDatabase` (which maps `datetime` → `{ tsType: 'Date',
+ * dialectType: 'datetime' }`), or hand-written metadata declaring it. Deliberately
+ * strict: a Postgres-sourced `timestamptz` column is DDL'd as PowQL `int`, so it
+ * is NOT a PowDB datetime and must not be caught here.
+ *
+ * Matters because comparing a datetime column against the integer timestamp
+ * literal Turbine binds was silently wrong below engine 0.20 (see
+ * {@link PowdbCapabilities.datetimeCompare}).
+ */
+export declare function isPowdbDatetimeColumn(col: ColumnMetadata): boolean;
 /**
  * Generate PowQL DDL (`type T { … }`) for every table in a schema. Used to
  * provision a PowDB database from a code-first `defineSchema`/`SchemaMetadata`
@@ -480,6 +574,14 @@ export declare function coerceValue(raw: string, col: ColumnMetadata): unknown;
  * str `"null"` stays the string `"null"` (fixes the legacy-wire wart on the
  * native transport). `datetime`-shaped cells (int micros) become `Date`; a
  * bigint on a `number` column follows the int8 safe-integer policy.
+ *
+ * A date cell can also arrive as a DIGIT STRING: a nested-projection block's
+ * children ride a JSON array, and micros exceed `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER`'s
+ * decimal comfort, so the engine renders them as a JSON string. Before that
+ * string was parsed here, a nested `with` handed back the raw micros text while
+ * the batched loader and the native join both handed back a `Date` (the same
+ * relation, three answers). Only an all-digit string is parsed; any other text
+ * on a date column passes through untouched.
  */
 export declare function coerceNativeValue(value: unknown, col: ColumnMetadata): unknown;
 /**
@@ -723,11 +825,19 @@ export declare function encodePowqlLiteral(value: unknown, position?: string): s
  * pre-existing tokens, so the tokenization / escape surface this ceiling guards is
  * unmoved. The 0.19.1 link-introspection / link-path round is likewise lexer-neutral:
  * `git diff v0.19.0 v0.19.1 -- crates/query/src/lexer.rs` is empty (the bare-dotted-path
- * hard error is parser-level, not tokenization), so this ceiling stays `'0.19'`. The
- * guard in {@link PowdbEmbeddedPool.exec} compares major.minor only, so `'0.19'`
- * already covers every 0.19.x patch, no bump is needed for 0.19.1.
+ * hard error is parser-level, not tokenization). The guard in
+ * {@link PowdbEmbeddedPool.exec} compares major.minor only, so one entry covers every
+ * patch of a line.
+ *
+ * Verification for the 0.20 line: `git diff v0.19.1 v0.20.0 -- crates/query/src/lexer.rs
+ * crates/query/src/token.rs` is EMPTY, both files are byte-identical. Everything 0.20
+ * changed in the query crate is downstream of tokenization: the operator-chain nesting
+ * budget and the count-projection lift are in `parser.rs`, and the unknown-column /
+ * type-mismatch / negative-limit refusals are a new executor validation pass
+ * (`executor/plan_exec/validate.rs`). No new escape sequence, so the escaper's contract
+ * is unmoved and the ceiling advances to `'0.20'`.
  */
-export declare const POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = "0.19";
+export declare const POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = "0.20";
 /**
  * Substitute every `$N` placeholder in a generator-produced PowQL template with
  * the encoded literal of `params[N-1]`. Safe because the template is produced by

package/dist/cjs/powdb.js

@@ -90,13 +90,14 @@ var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) {
     return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod };
 };
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
-exports.PowqlInterface = exports.introspectPowdbDatabase = exports.PowdbEmbeddedPool = exports.POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = exports.PowdbPool = exports.DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_TIMEOUT_MS = exports.POWQL_KEYWORDS = exports.ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES = exports.MIN_POWDB_VERSION = exports.PowdbJsonParam = exports.PowdbFloatParam = exports.powdbDialect = void 0;
+exports.PowqlInterface = exports.introspectPowdbDatabase = exports.PowdbEmbeddedPool = exports.POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = exports.PowdbPool = exports.DEFAULT_TX_QUEUE_TIMEOUT_MS = exports.POWQL_KEYWORDS = exports.ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES = exports.POWQL_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH = exports.MIN_POWDB_VERSION = exports.PowdbJsonParam = exports.PowdbFloatParam = exports.powdbDialect = void 0;
 exports.parsePowdbUrl = parsePowdbUrl;
 exports.assertSupportedPowdbVersion = assertSupportedPowdbVersion;
 exports.capabilitiesFromVersion = capabilitiesFromVersion;
 exports.requireCapability = requireCapability;
 exports.isJsonColumn = isJsonColumn;
 exports.powqlColumnType = powqlColumnType;
+exports.isPowdbDatetimeColumn = isPowdbDatetimeColumn;
 exports.quotePowqlIdent = quotePowqlIdent;
 exports.deriveDesiredLinks = deriveDesiredLinks;
 exports.powdbLinkStatement = powdbLinkStatement;
@@ -258,6 +259,34 @@ function assertSupportedPowdbVersion(version) {
     throw new errors_js_1.ConnectionError(`[turbine] turbine-orm/powdb requires PowDB >= ${exports.MIN_POWDB_VERSION}; the server reports "${version}". ` +
         'Upgrade the PowDB server (0.7.0 added the `returning` keyword and the int->float coercion fix Turbine relies on).');
 }
+/**
+ * PowQL's parser bounds the SHAPE of the AST it produces, not just its own
+ * recursion: an `and` / `or` chain is parsed iteratively but re-wraps its
+ * accumulator once per term, so a flat chain counts against the same 64-level
+ * nesting budget as nested parentheses (PowDB 0.20 security fix, an unbounded
+ * chain overflowed the stack in a later recursive walk).
+ *
+ * The practical ceiling for a Turbine-generated predicate is therefore around
+ * **63 terms in one `OR` / `AND` array at the top level**, and fewer inside a
+ * nested projection block (measured: 63 flat, 61 one level of parens deep),
+ * because the budget is shared with whatever depth the predicate sits at.
+ * Turbine does NOT pre-check this client-side: the true remaining budget
+ * depends on the engine's parse depth at that point, so a client-side estimate
+ * would refuse valid queries. The engine's refusal is mapped to a typed
+ * {@link ValidationError} with a split-the-array hint instead (see
+ * {@link wrapPowdbError}).
+ *
+ * A literal `in (a, b, c, …)` list is a single flat node, NOT a chain, so it
+ * does not count against the budget (verified to 5,000 elements). Turbine's
+ * relation-key chunking (`MAX_RELATION_KEYS`) is unaffected.
+ *
+ * The one exception is a key list on a PowDB-native `datetime` column, which
+ * cannot use the list form at all (the engine still compares it by type tag) and
+ * is expanded into exactly such a chain. Those lists ARE pre-checked and chunked,
+ * against a deliberately conservative cap, see `MAX_POWQL_DATETIME_TERMS` in
+ * powql.ts.
+ */
+exports.POWQL_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH = 64;
 /**
  * Minimum engine version each gated feature needs, for the E017 hint text.
  * Most gates carry a `major.minor` floor (patch-insensitive); the two link
@@ -275,6 +304,8 @@ const POWDB_FEATURE_MIN_VERSION = {
     entityLinks: '0.19',
     linkIntrospection: '0.19.1',
     linkPaths: '0.19.1',
+    datetimeCompare: '0.20',
+    projectedCountNonNull: '0.20',
 };
 /**
  * Trusted-caller default: every FEATURE gate on, engine version unknown. Used
@@ -293,6 +324,14 @@ const POWDB_FEATURE_MIN_VERSION = {
  * projections), and `linkIntrospection` is only meaningful once genuinely
  * probed, so both must come from a real version resolution, never a bare
  * construction.
+ * `datetimeCompare` / `projectedCountNonNull` stay ON here for the same
+ * trusted-caller reason as `jsonDocs` and `serverJoins`. Neither is a fallback
+ * gate: with the flag OFF the affected query is REFUSED, not served by some
+ * other statement, so defaulting them off would break working queries rather
+ * than protect anything. Every path that can learn the engine version
+ * (`turbinePowDB`, embedded or networked) resolves them from a real probe; this
+ * fallback only covers a hand-constructed or injected pool, whose owner is
+ * asserting the engine is current.
  */
 exports.ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES = {
     engineVersion: null,
@@ -304,6 +343,8 @@ exports.ALL_POWDB_CAPABILITIES = {
     entityLinks: false,
     linkIntrospection: false,
     linkPaths: false,
+    datetimeCompare: true,
+    projectedCountNonNull: true,
     nativeRaw: false,
 };
 /** Parse a PowDB semver prefix (`0.13.0`, `0.13`, `1.2.3-rc`) into components, or `null`. */
@@ -347,6 +388,8 @@ function capabilitiesFromVersion(version, opts = {}) {
             entityLinks: false,
             linkIntrospection: false,
             linkPaths: false,
+            datetimeCompare: false,
+            projectedCountNonNull: false,
             nativeRaw: false,
         };
     }
@@ -363,6 +406,8 @@ function capabilitiesFromVersion(version, opts = {}) {
         // never 0.19.0.
         linkIntrospection: atLeastVersion(sem, 0, 19, 1),
         linkPaths: atLeastVersion(sem, 0, 19, 1),
+        datetimeCompare: atLeastVersion(sem, 0, 20),
+        projectedCountNonNull: atLeastVersion(sem, 0, 20),
         nativeRaw: Boolean(opts.hasNativeRaw) && atLeastVersion(sem, 0, 13),
     };
 }
@@ -370,16 +415,26 @@ function capabilitiesFromVersion(version, opts = {}) {
  * Throw a version-hinting {@link UnsupportedFeatureError} (E017) when a gated
  * PowQL feature is used on an engine that does not support it. Keeps old engines
  * getting clean typed errors instead of raw PowQL parse failures.
+ *
+ * The error's first sentence already names the feature (`<feature> is
+ * unsupported on "PowDB".`), so the hint says "Requires PowDB >= x" rather than
+ * repeating the label: a long feature description read twice in one message
+ * (`per-field \`_count\` … is unsupported … per-field \`_count\` … requires …`)
+ * buries the version floor that is the actionable part.
+ *
+ * `extra` appends one more sentence for gates that have a workaround worth
+ * naming (e.g. the read path that answers the same query without the gated
+ * comparison).
  */
-function requireCapability(caps, key, feature) {
+function requireCapability(caps, key, feature, extra) {
     if (caps[key])
         return;
     const min = POWDB_FEATURE_MIN_VERSION[key];
     const reported = caps.engineVersion
         ? `this connection reports ${caps.engineVersion}`
         : 'this connection could not report a version';
-    throw new errors_js_1.UnsupportedFeatureError(feature, 'PowDB', `${feature} requires PowDB >= ${min}; ${reported}. Upgrade powdb-server / @zvndev/powdb-embedded ` +
-        '(or pass `assumeEngineVersion` if the version cannot be detected).');
+    throw new errors_js_1.UnsupportedFeatureError(feature, 'PowDB', `Requires PowDB >= ${min}; ${reported}. Upgrade powdb-server / @zvndev/powdb-embedded ` +
+        `(or pass \`assumeEngineVersion\` if the version cannot be detected).${extra ? ` ${extra}` : ''}`);
 }
 /**
  * Does this column map to PowDB's native `json` document type? A Postgres
@@ -443,6 +498,25 @@ function isFloatColumn(col) {
 function isDateColumn(col) {
     return col.tsType.replace(/\s*\|\s*null$/i, '').trim() === 'Date';
 }
+/**
+ * Is this column stored in PowDB's NATIVE `datetime` type (as opposed to the
+ * `int` epoch micros Turbine's own DDL emits for a `Date` column)?
+ *
+ * Only the literal PowQL type name counts. `powqlColumnType` never returns
+ * `datetime`, so a Turbine-provisioned table can never have one; the shapes that
+ * do are a table created outside Turbine and read back through
+ * `introspectPowdbDatabase` (which maps `datetime` → `{ tsType: 'Date',
+ * dialectType: 'datetime' }`), or hand-written metadata declaring it. Deliberately
+ * strict: a Postgres-sourced `timestamptz` column is DDL'd as PowQL `int`, so it
+ * is NOT a PowDB datetime and must not be caught here.
+ *
+ * Matters because comparing a datetime column against the integer timestamp
+ * literal Turbine binds was silently wrong below engine 0.20 (see
+ * {@link PowdbCapabilities.datetimeCompare}).
+ */
+function isPowdbDatetimeColumn(col) {
+    return (col.dialectType ?? col.pgType ?? '').toLowerCase() === 'datetime';
+}
 /**
  * Generate PowQL DDL (`type T { … }`) for every table in a schema. Used to
  * provision a PowDB database from a code-first `defineSchema`/`SchemaMetadata`
@@ -736,7 +810,7 @@ async function applyPowdbLinks(exec, schema, options = {}) {
         requireCapability(caps, 'linkIntrospection', 'PowDB `schema links` introspection');
     }
     const existing = await listPowdbLinks(exec);
-    const byOwnerName = new Map(existing.map((l) => [`${l.owner}${l.name}`, l]));
+    const byOwnerName = new Map(existing.map((l) => [`${l.owner}\u0000${l.name}`, l]));
     const desired = deriveDesiredLinks(schema, (owner, name) => {
         if ((0, warn_registry_js_1.shouldWarnOnce)(warn_registry_js_1.WARN_NS.powdbLinks, `collide:${owner}.${name}`)) {
             console.warn(`[turbine] applyPowdbLinks: relation "${name}" on "${owner}" collides with a column of the same name; ` +
@@ -745,7 +819,7 @@ async function applyPowdbLinks(exec, schema, options = {}) {
     });
     const executed = [];
     for (const link of desired) {
-        const found = byOwnerName.get(`${link.owner}${link.name}`);
+        const found = byOwnerName.get(`${link.owner}\u0000${link.name}`);
         if (found) {
             const same = found.target === link.target && found.localKey === link.localKey && found.targetKey === link.targetKey;
             if (!same && (0, warn_registry_js_1.shouldWarnOnce)(warn_registry_js_1.WARN_NS.powdbLinks, `drift:${link.owner}.${link.name}`)) {
@@ -883,6 +957,14 @@ function coerceValue(raw, col) {
  * str `"null"` stays the string `"null"` (fixes the legacy-wire wart on the
  * native transport). `datetime`-shaped cells (int micros) become `Date`; a
  * bigint on a `number` column follows the int8 safe-integer policy.
+ *
+ * A date cell can also arrive as a DIGIT STRING: a nested-projection block's
+ * children ride a JSON array, and micros exceed `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER`'s
+ * decimal comfort, so the engine renders them as a JSON string. Before that
+ * string was parsed here, a nested `with` handed back the raw micros text while
+ * the batched loader and the native join both handed back a `Date` (the same
+ * relation, three answers). Only an all-digit string is parsed; any other text
+ * on a date column passes through untouched.
  */
 function coerceNativeValue(value, col) {
     if (value === undefined || value === null)
@@ -892,6 +974,8 @@ function coerceNativeValue(value, col) {
             return new Date(Number(value) / 1000);
         if (typeof value === 'number')
             return new Date(value / 1000);
+        if (typeof value === 'string' && /^-?\d+$/.test(value))
+            return new Date(Number(value) / 1000);
         return value;
     }
     const ts = col.tsType.replace(/\s*\|\s*null$/i, '').trim();
@@ -1063,6 +1147,73 @@ function wrapPowdbError(err) {
     if (/is ambiguous in a projection|aggregates over a nested or link projection/i.test(msg)) {
         return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB query rejected: ${msg}`);
     }
+    // Corrupt storage → ConnectionError (E004). PowDB 0.20 verifies page checksums
+    // at table-OPEN time and fails closed (previously the open scan skipped the bad
+    // page and the failure surfaced later, on the read that touched it). This is a
+    // data-integrity / availability failure, not a query defect, so it joins the
+    // connection families ABOVE the generic validation regexes (whose `StorageError`
+    // token would otherwise class it E003). There is no salvage mode: restoring
+    // from a backup is the documented recovery, so say so.
+    if (/page corrupt|catalog corrupt|corrupt heap superblock|CRC32 mismatch/i.test(msg)) {
+        return new errors_js_1.ConnectionError(`[turbine] PowDB refused to open a corrupt data directory: ${msg}. PowDB verifies page checksums on open ` +
+            'and fails closed rather than serving partial data; there is no skip-corrupt-pages mode, so recover by ' +
+            'restoring the directory from a backup.', { cause: err });
+    }
+    // Unknown column → ValidationError (E003), naming the column. PowDB 0.20 turned
+    // an unknown column in `filter` / a projection from a silent NULL into an error
+    // (the old behavior made `count(T filter .agee = null)` match every row, so a
+    // delete on that predicate emptied the table). Turbine validates field names
+    // against its own metadata first, so reaching here means the runtime metadata
+    // has drifted from the live catalog.
+    {
+        const m = /column '([^']+)' not found(?: in table '([^']+)')?/i.exec(msg);
+        if (m) {
+            const where = m[2] ? ` on table "${m[2]}"` : '';
+            return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB rejected column "${m[1]}"${where}: it does not exist in the live catalog. ` +
+                'The schema metadata Turbine is using has drifted from the database; re-derive it ' +
+                '(`schemaDefToMetadata` / `introspectPowdbDatabase`) or apply the missing DDL. ' +
+                `(engine: ${msg})`);
+        }
+    }
+    // Type-mismatched comparison → ValidationError (E003), naming the column. Also
+    // new in 0.20: comparing e.g. a `str` column against an integer literal used to
+    // evaluate true for every row. Runs before the generic `type mismatch` regex
+    // below so the column name and the fix survive into the message.
+    {
+        const m = /type mismatch for column '([^']+)': expected ([^,]+), got (\w+)/i.exec(msg);
+        if (m) {
+            return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB rejected a comparison on column "${m[1]}": the column is ${m[2]} but the bound value is ` +
+                `${m[3]}. PowQL never coerces across types in a comparison (before engine 0.20 this silently matched ` +
+                "every row), so bind a value of the column's own type.");
+        }
+    }
+    // Operator-chain / nesting budget → ValidationError (E003) with the actual fix.
+    // PowDB 0.20 counts flat `and` / `or` chains against the same 64-level budget as
+    // nested parentheses, so a machine-built predicate with very many terms is now
+    // rejected outright (see POWQL_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH).
+    if (/nesting depth exceeds maximum/i.test(msg)) {
+        return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB rejected the query: ${msg}. PowQL bounds the shape of the predicate tree, and a flat ` +
+            `\`OR\` / \`AND\` array counts one level per term (roughly ${exports.POWQL_MAX_NESTING_DEPTH - 1} terms at the top ` +
+            'level, fewer inside a nested `with` block). Split a large `OR` / `AND` array into several queries and ' +
+            'merge the results, or express it as a single `in` list, which is one flat node and does not count ' +
+            'against the budget.');
+    }
+    // Negative limit / offset → ValidationError (E003). Turbine validates these
+    // client-side before emitting, so this is the backstop for a raw PowQL string.
+    if (/(limit|offset) must not be negative/i.test(msg)) {
+        return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB rejected the query: ${msg}. Pass a non-negative \`limit\` / \`offset\` ` +
+            '(before engine 0.20 a negative limit was ignored and returned every row).');
+    }
+    // Client-side result-frame cell cap (`@zvndev/powdb-client` >= 0.20 rejects a
+    // declared result shape over 2,000,000 cells before decoding it, so a hostile or
+    // MITM'd server cannot force a multi-gigabyte allocation). It is a plain driver
+    // Error with no code, so match the message and give the caller the two real
+    // remedies instead of letting it fall through untyped.
+    if (/result too large: \d+ cells/i.test(msg)) {
+        return new errors_js_1.ValidationError(`[turbine] PowDB result too large to decode: ${msg}. The client caps one result frame at 2,000,000 cells ` +
+            '(rows x columns). Page the query with `limit` / `offset`, or narrow the row with `select` so each row ' +
+            'carries fewer columns.');
+    }
     // Typed wire error class (networked, server >= 0.17): the client surfaces the
     // stable one-byte class from the error frame as `.wireErrorClass`. Classify by
     // it BEFORE the generic message regexes: the server sanitizes non-allowlisted
@@ -1774,11 +1925,19 @@ function powqlNumberText(n) {
  * pre-existing tokens, so the tokenization / escape surface this ceiling guards is
  * unmoved. The 0.19.1 link-introspection / link-path round is likewise lexer-neutral:
  * `git diff v0.19.0 v0.19.1 -- crates/query/src/lexer.rs` is empty (the bare-dotted-path
- * hard error is parser-level, not tokenization), so this ceiling stays `'0.19'`. The
- * guard in {@link PowdbEmbeddedPool.exec} compares major.minor only, so `'0.19'`
- * already covers every 0.19.x patch, no bump is needed for 0.19.1.
+ * hard error is parser-level, not tokenization). The guard in
+ * {@link PowdbEmbeddedPool.exec} compares major.minor only, so one entry covers every
+ * patch of a line.
+ *
+ * Verification for the 0.20 line: `git diff v0.19.1 v0.20.0 -- crates/query/src/lexer.rs
+ * crates/query/src/token.rs` is EMPTY, both files are byte-identical. Everything 0.20
+ * changed in the query crate is downstream of tokenization: the operator-chain nesting
+ * budget and the count-projection lift are in `parser.rs`, and the unknown-column /
+ * type-mismatch / negative-limit refusals are a new executor validation pass
+ * (`executor/plan_exec/validate.rs`). No new escape sequence, so the escaper's contract
+ * is unmoved and the ceiling advances to `'0.20'`.
  */
-exports.POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = '0.19';
+exports.POWQL_LEXER_TESTED_CEILING = '0.20';
 /**
  * Escape a string into a PowQL `"…"` literal, matching the engine lexer's
  * escape rules.