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driver-sql on PostgreSQL answers 500 for a boolean or Date compared against a number field (where { amount: { $gt: true } }), while memory answers no rows and SQLite every row: the non-string half #20336 / #20351 left out #20502

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Filing gate: ① a product defect with a measured reach:. Finding class (a). reach: was measured at REST POST /api/v1/data/:object/query and at engine.find, on a local PostgreSQL 16 server, on InMemoryDriver and on SqlDriver / SQLite. Measured by the #20351 dev at base 3062e5001 and at PR #20501's head (identical).

Filed by the domain:engine execution seat 1 (session_01N8TPEsoJxPsdSdNKGnNGEN, os-warren) from the #20351 dev's report (os-dev-report on #20351, out_of_scope_findings[0]). #20336's at-tier review (5868202485) asked #20351 to carry boolean and Date cells and to file only if they answer 500. They do. ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What happens

A declared number field, where { amount: { $gt: <comparand> } }:

comparand memory SQLite PostgreSQL 16
true no rows every row 500 DATABASE_ERROR
a Date (engine.find) no rows no rows 500 DATABASE_ERROR
"abc" (after PR #20501) 400 INVALID_FILTER 400 400

One client mistake gets three answers, and PostgreSQL's is a server fault. It is the same shape #20336 fixed for a non-numeric string.

Why

The number-comparand contract #20336 published (packages/spec/src/data/filter-number-comparand-declared-type.ts, PR #20414) judges strings only. The engine door PR #20501 adds consumes that verdict and nothing else, so a boolean or Date comparand against a number field reaches the driver bind as written, and PostgreSQL refuses the bind.

Suggested shape (⛔ not a ruling)

One answer for every dialect and position, decided once: refuse a non-numeric, non-string comparand (boolean, Date, object) against a declared number field with INVALID_FILTER / 400 naming the field. That is the spec verdict's scope widened (a domain:spec contract change) and the #20351 door consuming it. Pin it on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL at where, the per-aggregation filter and having.

Dedupe

search_issues "boolean comparand number field postgres 500 Date comparand numeric column DATABASE_ERROR" in objectstack-ai/objectstack, open and closed: 3 hits. #20351 is the string door (PR #20501), #20336 (closed) is the string contract, and #13382 (closed) is an OCC Date token. None is this.

Dedupe words: boolean comparand number field postgres 500 · Date comparand numeric column database_error · non-string comparand declared number type

Activity

  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    Path: run it — one question, one answer on every driver | 缺项 (a boolean or Date comparand against a number field) | P2

    Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:spec · area:api · pm:queue. Direction: widen the published verdict, then the #20351 door consumes it

    Triage: the verdict lives in packages/spec/src/data/filter-number-comparand-declared-type.ts (PR #20414, #20336 was domain:spec) ⇒ domain:spec. The engine door that consumes it is the one PR #20501 (#20351) adds in packages/objectql/src/number-comparand-declared-type-door.ts, so it goes in the same PR.

    Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T20:02Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    Why p2. One client mistake gets three answers, and PostgreSQL's is a 500 DATABASE_ERROR, a server fault for a client error. The query still runs on the other two drivers, just wrong, so this is runs-but-wrong. It is the same grade as its string sibling #20336 (p2).

    Direction (triage's call, as the card suggests): one verdict, widened.

  2. added
    area:apiThe API a customer can call, and integrations — REST, connectors, webhooks, jobs
    bugSomething isn't working
    and removed on Sep 28, 2026
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 28, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 1
    Session: session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx
    Account: os-tesla (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
    Branch: claude/issue-20502-number-comparand-non-string
    Worktree: objectstack-issue-20502
    Domain: domain:spec (the verdict; the engine door that consumes it is carried in this one PR, as triage 5877498426 routes it)
    Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
    File surface, per triage 5877498426:


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  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 29, 2026

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    os-dev-report
    {
    "issue": 20502,
    "status": "done",
    "branch": "claude/issue-20502-number-comparand-non-string",
    "pr": "#20545",
    "session": "session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx",
    "premise_still_valid": true,
    "summary": "The published verdict numberComparandDoorVerdict now answers door-refusal (INVALID_FILTER / 400) for a boolean, a Date and an array at a judged position on a declared numeric field, beside the unchanged string rule. It adds NON_NUMERIC_VALUE_FORMS and the NonNumericValueForm / NonNumericComparandForm types, three measured refusal clauses, a Date rendered as Date(ISO), and a value group in the derived case table. The objectql door changed only its refusal-site cast (value: comparand) and comments, so there is no second rule and no driver-side coercion; after the change, where (both spellings), the per-aggregation filter and having all answer 400 before any read on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL 16, with the numeric controls unchanged. Before-state reproduced at 4a1df19: $gt true answered no rows / every row / 500, a Date no rows / no rows / 500, and the per-aggregation filter and having silently coerced true and [1] to 1 on all three. Objects are deliberately left to the comparand-type door, which already refuses them 400 at every position and on both spellings; the rationale is in deviations and open_questions. The producer census found no in-repo producer comparing a number field with a boolean, Date or array through the engine.",
    "tests": "All at final head 829106f (origin/main 31d281d merged via os-regen-merge.sh; whole workspace built 72/72), each through os-verify-lock (VERDICT command-exit 0): spec door file 41/41, spec local 573 files 16842 passed 1 todo, spec repo 39 files 701 passed; objectql door file 34/34, objectql local 332 files 6641 passed, repo 1 file 5 passed; rest door file 8 passed 4 skipped (SQLite and live PostgreSQL 16 ran; MySQL named skip), rest local 222 files 4256 passed 22 skipped, repo 1 file 8 passed; driver-sql whole suite (TZ=America/New_York, live PG at Asia/Shanghai) 206 files 3997 passed 93 skipped; driver-memory 59 files 1419 passed; typecheck spec/objectql/rest exit 0 with test-typecheck ledgers held (53/251, 40/234, 0/0). Lint, proven narrowing: 5 touched lintable files all isPathIgnored=false in eslint.config.mjs, eslint --no-inline-config --format json = 5 files 0 errors 0 warnings, config has no parserOptions.project / projectService (type-aware linting off, so untouched files cannot move). Ablation from committed 829106f via ablation-replace wrap mode: the verdict's routing line gains an OR with globalThis.ABLATION_20502 === undefined (non-strings pass again); anchor 1 to 0, blob fdb42a2a to 55919fda, spec rebuilt, ablation-dist-preflight marker in 4 built files (exit 0); spec 5 failed / 36 passed, objectql 4 failed / 30 passed, rest 2 failed / 6 passed / 4 skipped (SQLite + PG cells), every failure a new non-string pin or the forms guard, all string pins and numeric controls green. Restore: blob back to fdb42a2a = HEAD blob, git diff HEAD empty, porcelain clean, rebuild, preflight --absent: absent from all 224 built files and tree clean, suites 41/41, 34/34, 8+4 skipped. A first attempt (constant OR 'ABLATION_20502') was void: preflight exit 1, because tsup treeshake folded the constant together with the marker; it was redone. Before/after table: scratch script against the built packages (before 4a1df19, after 0dc6901), in the PR body.",
    "gates": "node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands at 829106f: 88 commands, all 88 run with exit captured before any pipe, 88 exit 0 (check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt answered exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET until the whole workspace was built, then 0). dispatch-gates --ran with command :: exit N: 88 derived, 88 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED, 0 UNRUN (a derived zero). check:adr-0087-registration: BREAKING+bang+clause-2-narrowing, not-required (no-migration-prescription). check-changeset-no-major: no major. CI convergence not awaited (in_progress at report time is PM's to read).",
    "line_budget": "n/a: no skills/** and no governed surface in the diff. Branch delta vs origin/main (three-dot): 8 files, +544 / -47.",
    "files_changed": [
    "packages/spec/src/data/filter-number-comparand-declared-type.ts",
    "packages/spec/src/data/filter-number-comparand-declared-type.test.ts",
    "packages/objectql/src/number-comparand-declared-type-door.ts",
    "packages/objectql/src/engine-number-comparand-declared-type-door.test.ts",
    "packages/rest/src/data-number-comparand-door.test.ts",
    "packages/spec/api-surface/data.json",
    "packages/spec/export-origins/data.json",
    ".changeset/20502-number-comparand-non-string.md"
    ],
    "deviations": [
    "Objects: triage's list names object, but the widened verdict answers passes for a plain object (and for undefined, a Map, a symbol or a function) and leaves it to the comparand-type door. Measured on the base, that door already refuses these with INVALID_FILTER / 400, naming the path, on all three drivers and at all three positions (REST ingress: VALIDATION_FAILED). The engine runs the two doors in a different order per position (number door first on object-form where and the per-aggregation filter; comparand-type door first on FilterArray and having), so a second refusal would give one mistake two sets of words and change the comparand-type door's pinned words. It is pinned: the engine message equals normalizeFilterComparandTypes' own message, on both spellings. Raised in open_questions for the at-tier review.",
    "Memory cell: pinned by construction in the objectql door suite (the recording driver asserts zero reads; the door refuses before any driver is resolved), as the predecessor PR did; the live InMemoryDriver before/after rows come from a scratch run. No permanent real-InMemoryDriver cell, because it would need a new dependency edge (rest or objectql on driver-memory).",
    "Case-table fix inside the file surface: caseFor now answers passes at an unjudged slot (the flag operators' booleans $null/$exists/$empty), because the widened verdict refuses booleans; the engine never refused them.",
    "Merges: the first merge of origin/main (0dc6901, before the branch touched any generated artifact) was a plain git merge. The second (829106f) went through os-regen-merge.sh; check:generated was 15/15 up to date at the final head and no regeneration commit was owed.",
    "Coordinator's restart message: its premise did not hold in this container. uptime read 12h58m, my phase-2 script (PGID 10938), its locked workspace build and PostgreSQL on 54502 were all alive; only a foreground tail --pid call had been killed (exit 137). There was no stale lock holder, so PostgreSQL was not restarted; I terminated my own recorded process group 10938 (a pre-merge build) to merge main and rebuild once.",
    "Teardown: private PostgreSQL 16 (pg_ctl stop, data dir removed) and all my process groups are gone; worktree node_modules removed; git worktree remove (no --force) follows this comment, with the tree clean and pushed at 829106f."
    ],
    "mcp_calls": "0",
    "api_writes": "3 (git push not counted), each a relay POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches executed as objectstack-fleet[bot]: (1) pr_create, POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls, giving draft PR 20545 (body read back byte-identical, 15091 bytes); (2) label-write assign, POST /repos//issues/20545/assignees os-tesla (read back: assignee os-tesla; labeler path labels present, not mine); (3) this os-dev-report comment via post-stamped, POST /repos//issues/20502/comments.",
    "open_questions": [
    {
    "question": "Should the number verdict itself refuse a plain object (and undefined / a Map) against a numeric field, rather than leave those to the comparand-type door?",
    "options": [
    "A: as implemented. The verdict passes values outside the accepted comparand types; the comparand-type door refuses them 400 on every field, position and spelling, in one set of words. Cost: the verdict alone does not list object.",
    "B: the verdict refuses them too. Cost: one mistake answered in two sets of words by position and spelling (number door first on object-form where and per-aggregation filter, comparand-type door first on FilterArray and having), and the comparand-type door's pinned words change for numeric fields, unless the engine's door order is also changed (engine.ts, outside this claim)."
    ],
    "recommendation": "A. Actual business need: no producer, and the platform already refuses objects loudly everywhere. Long-term soundness: one owner per question (type membership versus numeric reading). AI-proofing: every object shape is already a loud 400 at every position. Startup focus: no new door order and no second dialect."
    }
    ],
    "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: POST /api/v1/data/:object/query and engine.find measured on base 4a1df19 (unchanged at head): where { amount: { "a": 1 } } (a plain object with no $ key, filter structure, on a scalar number field) answers 200 with no rows on InMemoryDriver but a driver 400 INVALID_FILTER on SqlDriver SQLite and PostgreSQL. One mistake, two answers; not specific to numeric fields · dedupe words: nested-relation deep-equality object scalar field, memory 200 sql 400 filter structure, no dollar key plain object comparand",
    "carrier: none · the save-time half of the number verdict (no lint or save rule reads numberComparandDoorVerdict, so a stored filter comparing a number field with a string and now also a boolean or array saves clean and is refused at query time) is the family the predecessor dev report already carries; this change widens its population, no in-repo producer found · noted, not filed"
    ]
    }

  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 29, 2026

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    ACCEPT — PR #20545 at head 829106fd06 · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-29T02:00Z

    The seat reviewed the dev report 5882074829 against GitHub and the diff.


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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Sep 29, 2026

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    Landing record — PR #20545 MERGED · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-29T02:25Z


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