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+# Session handoff — 2026-05-23 (32)
+
+Thirty-second handover. A long, productive session that pushed
+**ADR-0033 Phase 3 from 3f through 3i** (DELETE, RETURNING, UPSERT,
+the three DML diagnostics), wrote **ADR-0034** (history journal),
+fixed a pre-existing self-referential-cascade bug, and closed with a
+`/runda` adversarial round that found **six** latent
+INSERT-target-scope false-positives.
+
+The next session should **start sub-phase 3j** (dispatch wiring —
+make `insert`/`update`/`delete` shared DSL/SQL entry words and remove
+the dev scaffold words), then **3k** (verification sweep). See §4.
+
+## §1. State at handoff
+
+**Branch:** `main`. **Tests: 1613 passing, 0 failing, 1 ignored.**
+**Clippy:** clean (`cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings`).
+
+**Commits this session** (newest first). `origin/main` is at
+`6b8888f` (3h), so the **six 3i commits are local-only**:
+
+```
+8d17583 walker: 3i /runda DA round — fix INSERT-target scope confusion (6 cases) (local)
+4fa0aa0 db+walker: 3i DA pass — not_null PK false-positive fix + arity hardening (local)
+cfd925c grammar+db: 3i — DML column-existence + cross-cut verification (local)
+2d1112d grammar+db: 3i — not_null_missing diagnostic + TableColumn constraints (local)
+6db8253 grammar+db: 3i — insert_arity_mismatch diagnostic (ADR-0033 §8.1) (local)
+be63315 grammar+db: 3i — auto_column_overridden diagnostic (ADR-0033 §8.2) (local)
+6b8888f grammar+db: 3h — UPSERT ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING / DO UPDATE (origin/main)
+fd8b74b grammar+db: 3g — RETURNING on INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE (ADR-0033 §5)
+b935090 docs: ADR-0034 — history.log as a complete journal; replay reads ok-only
+62f09be db: fix self-referential cascade over-count + SQL-delete render test
+2c86a13 grammar+db: 3f — SQL DELETE + cascade summary (ADR-0033 §1/§7)
+```
+
+(Unpushed commits are a normal working state; pushing is the user's
+step — do not prompt about it.)
+
+## §2. Process lessons (read first)
+
+1. **`/runda` (a forced extra DA round) earned its keep.** After I
+ reported 3i "done with a thorough DA pass," the user invoked
+ `/runda`. Probing the **interaction** of the new 3i diagnostic
+ passes with the *existing* `schema_existence` pass under
+ `INSERT … SELECT` surfaced **six** false-positive bugs I had
+ missed (§3i below). The lesson: my first DA pass tested each new
+ pass in isolation; the bugs lived in the **cross-cut** between new
+ and old passes on a compound input. **Always exercise new
+ diagnostics against the awkward compound forms** (`INSERT … SELECT
+ … ON CONFLICT … DO UPDATE … RETURNING`), not just the simple ones.
+
+2. **Probe-then-assert works.** Each `/runda` bug was confirmed with
+ a throwaway test asserting the *correct* behaviour, watching it
+ FAIL, then fixed, then the test kept. Don't fix on suspicion.
+
+3. **Escalate ADR-mechanism mismatches; don't silently "improve".**
+ Three times this session the implementation revealed the ADR's
+ prescribed mechanism was wrong or insufficient (3f cascade,
+ 3h `excluded` scoping, history logging). Each was escalated to the
+ user and resolved by ADR amendment / a new ADR / a recorded
+ decision — never silent drift. The user values this; keep doing it.
+
+## §3. What shipped this session (detail)
+
+### 3f — SQL `DELETE` + cascade (`2c86a13`) + self-ref fix (`62f09be`)
+- `src/dsl/grammar/sql_delete.rs` (`FROM
[WHERE] [;]`),
+ `Command::SqlDelete`, `Request::RunSqlDelete`, `do_sql_delete`.
+- **ADR-0033 Amendment 2** (written this session): §7's WHERE-injected
+ pre-count rested on a *false premise* (it claimed the DSL
+ `do_delete` builds pre-counts from the typed `Expr` — it does not;
+ it uses **before/after child row-count diffing**). The pre-count
+ would also have broken §2's parity promise (reporting `SET NULL`
+ the DSL path doesn't). Replaced by mirroring `do_delete`'s
+ count-diff exactly → exact parity, no WHERE extraction, **risk R2
+ withdrawn**. `ON DELETE CASCADE` row removals only; SET NULL
+ deferred for both paths. Render shared via `CommandOutcome::Delete`.
+- **Self-ref cascade bug** (pre-existing in `do_delete`, surfaced by
+ 3f's DA): a self-referential `ON DELETE CASCADE` FK conflated the
+ directly-deleted rows with cascade rows. Fixed in **both**
+ `do_delete` and `do_sql_delete`: when `rel.other_table == target`,
+ `rows_changed -= rows_affected`.
+
+### 3g — `RETURNING` (`fd8b74b`)
+- Shared `RETURNING_CLAUSE` (reuses Phase-2 `PROJECTION_LIST`, made
+ `pub(crate)`); optional tail on all three SQL DML shapes.
+- `returning: bool` on the three `Command::Sql*` variants (per ADR
+ §5), set by the ast-builders, threaded Request→client→worker.
+- `run_returning` (db.rs) collects the returned rows as a
+ `DataResult` (a RETURNING DML mutates *and* yields in one
+ `query_map`); reuses `resolve_select_column_types`. `DeleteResult`
+ gained a `data` field, rendered alongside the cascade summary.
+- **Follow-set fix:** `returning` added to the table-source and
+ projection bare-alias follow-sets (`sql_select.rs`), so an
+ `INSERT … SELECT … FROM t RETURNING …` stops before RETURNING
+ instead of reading it as `t`'s alias.
+- **Auto-fill × RETURNING:** `build_sql_insert`'s `row_source` now
+ stops before the first trailing clause (ON CONFLICT or RETURNING),
+ and the shortid-auto-fill rewrite re-appends the whole trailing
+ tail so generated ids surface in `RETURNING *`.
+
+### 3h — UPSERT `ON CONFLICT` (`6b8888f`)
+- `on_conflict_clause` on `SQL_INSERT_SHAPE`: optional `(col,…)`
+ target (distinct `conflict_target_column` role so it never enters
+ `listed_columns`), `DO NOTHING` / `DO UPDATE SET … [WHERE …]`.
+- **`do` is factored OUT of the action Choice** (`DO ( NOTHING |
+ UPDATE … )`) because a Choice with branches sharing a `do` prefix
+ trips the `walk_seq`/`walk_choice` interaction (ADR-0033
+ Amendment 1) — a branch matching `do` then failing its 2nd token
+ returns a hard `Failed`, blocking fall-through. **Re-learn:** any
+ `Choice` whose branches share a leading token must factor it out.
+- Worker runs the UPSERT verbatim (SQLite-native); no new exec path.
+- **`excluded` pseudo-table:** resolves to the target's columns
+ inside the DO UPDATE action and completes at `excluded.|`, but stays
+ flagged outside it. **Mechanism deviation (recorded):** the plan
+ prescribed a `from_scope` `TableBinding` push; I used **byte-range
+ scoping** in the diagnostic pass (`upsert_excluded: (target,
+ do_update_start, returning_or_end)`) + `current_table_columns` in
+ completion. Same behaviour, no walker scope-frame change.
+
+### 3i — three DML diagnostics + cross-cut (`be63315`→`8d17583`)
+All under ADR-0033 §8. Each diagnostic is a separate post-walk pass in
+`src/dsl/walker/mod.rs`, wired into `walk` next to
+`schema_existence_diagnostics`. Catalog keys in
+`src/friendly/keys.rs` + `src/friendly/strings/en-US.yaml`.
+
+- **`auto_column_overridden`** (WARN, §8.2) — `dml_auto_column_diagnostics`:
+ an explicit value for a `serial`/`shortid` listed column.
+- **`insert_arity_mismatch`** (ERROR, §8.1) — `dml_insert_arity_diagnostics`:
+ per-tuple VALUES arity (each offending row emits its own diagnostic;
+ the walk stops at the first depth-0 keyword so `ON CONFLICT`/`RETURNING`
+ parens aren't mis-counted) + INSERT…SELECT projection arity (plain
+ SELECT; WITH-prefixed deferred to avoid false positives).
+- **`not_null_missing`** (WARN, §8.3) — `dml_not_null_missing_diagnostics`:
+ omitted NOT-NULL-no-default column; **excludes serial/shortid
+ (auto-filled) and defaulted columns**. Needed a **data-model
+ extension**: `TableColumn` (in `SchemaCache`) gained `not_null` +
+ `has_default` (with a `TableColumn::new` constructor), populated in
+ `build_schema_cache` from `ColumnDescription`. **DA fix:** the cache
+ builder must use `c.notnull` ALONE, *not* `|| c.primary_key` — an
+ `int` PK is an `INTEGER PRIMARY KEY` rowid alias that auto-fills, so
+ treating any PK as required false-flags it.
+- **`dml_target_column_diagnostics`** (ERROR) — validates
+ `insert_column` / `update_set_column` / `conflict_target_column`
+ against the INSERT target (the cross-cut "schema-existence on INSERT
+ VALUES" gate item; also closed DA finding #12, the UPSERT DO UPDATE
+ SET divergence).
+
+#### The `/runda` round — INSERT-target scope confusion (commit `8d17583`)
+**One root cause, six manifestations, all pre-existing
+false-positives.** The INSERT target is recorded under role
+`insert_target_table`, NOT as a diagnostic `bindings` entry. So refs
+that should resolve to the *target* row were checked against the
+statement's `bindings` — which for an `INSERT … SELECT` are the
+SELECT's *source* tables. New helper **`bare_ref_insert_target`**
+re-scopes a ref onto the target when it sits in a target-referencing
+region (the DO UPDATE byte range, or an INSERT's RETURNING list).
+Applied to: (1) insert column list, (2) ON CONFLICT target,
+(3) DO UPDATE SET-RHS / WHERE bare refs (also closed #12's residual),
+(4) RETURNING bare refs, (5) target-qualified `t.col`, (6)
+target-qualified `t.*`. Each has positive + negative tests.
+
+## §4. Sub-phase 3j — the NEXT job (dispatch wiring)
+
+Read `docs/plans/20260520-adr-0033-phase-3.md` "Sub-phase 3j" and
+ADR-0033 **Amendment 1** (the category-grouped dispatch mechanism —
+this is the machinery 3j uses).
+
+**Goal:** make `insert` / `update` / `delete` **shared DSL/SQL entry
+words** and **remove the dev scaffold words** (`sqlinsert`,
+`sql_update`, `sql_delete`).
+
+**Current state of the scaffold** (what 3j removes/rewires):
+- `src/dsl/grammar/data.rs`: `SQL_INSERT` (entry word `sqlinsert`),
+ `SQL_UPDATE` (`sql_update`), `SQL_DELETE` (`sql_delete`)
+ CommandNodes, registered `Advanced` in `REGISTRY`
+ (`src/dsl/grammar/mod.rs`). Their ast-builders `build_sql_insert` /
+ `build_sql_update` / `build_sql_delete` reconstruct the real keyword
+ (`format!("insert {tail}")` etc.) — **once the real entry word is
+ shared, these collapse to `source.trim()`** (the dev-word prefix
+ reconstruction goes away).
+- The DSL CommandNodes `data::INSERT` / `UPDATE` / `DELETE` (entry
+ words `insert`/`update`/`delete`) are `Simple`.
+
+**The mechanism (ADR-0033 Amendment 1):** dispatch is
+**category-grouped** in `walker::walk`. Each `REGISTRY` entry carries
+a `CommandCategory::{Simple, Advanced}`. A **shared entry word has a
+node in BOTH groups** — e.g. a `Simple` DSL `insert` node and an
+`Advanced` SQL `insert` node, both entry word `insert`. Selection:
+- **Simple mode** → only `Simple` candidates; if none but an
+ `Advanced` exists, emit the `advanced_mode.sql_in_simple` hint.
+- **Advanced mode** → try `Advanced` candidate(s) first, then the
+ `Simple` candidate as fallback (`delete from t where id=1` → SQL;
+ `delete from t --all-rows` → falls through to DSL).
+
+**3j scope (from the plan):**
+1. Register the SQL shapes under the real entry words `insert` /
+ `update` / `delete` with category `Advanced` (alongside the
+ existing `Simple` DSL nodes). The dispatcher already supports two
+ candidates per entry word (Amendment 1 / how `select`+`with` work).
+2. Remove the `sqlinsert` / `sql_update` / `sql_delete` dev words +
+ their CommandNodes; simplify the three `build_sql_*` ast-builders
+ to `source.trim()` (no keyword reconstruction).
+3. **De-duplicate the completion entry-word lists** — once a word
+ appears twice in `REGISTRY` (Simple + Advanced), the entry-word
+ candidate lists must not show it twice (flagged in ADR-0033
+ Amendment 1 consequences; the `command_for_entry_word` /
+ completion filters in `mod.rs` are the sites).
+4. Verify: existing DSL insert/update/delete tests still green
+ (unchanged inputs/outputs); SQL inputs route via the shared word in
+ Advanced; a structurally-ambiguous input (`delete from t where id =
+ 1`) routes SQL-first; a DSL-only input (`delete from t --all-rows`)
+ falls through to DSL.
+
+**3j heads-up — the diagnostics keyed on roles will keep working:**
+the 3i passes match on roles (`insert_target_table`, `insert_column`,
+etc.) that come from the SQL shapes, so they fire only when the SQL
+shape matched. A DSL insert (different roles) won't trip them. But
+**re-run the full diagnostic test set after 3j** — the dev-word →
+real-word switch changes how the path is built (the entry-word offset
+/ no keyword-prefix reconstruction), and the ast-builders' `source`
+handling changes.
+
+**Tests that hard-code the dev words** must be migrated in 3j:
+`tests/sql_insert.rs`, `tests/sql_update.rs`, `tests/sql_delete.rs`
+use `sqlinsert …` / `sql_update …` / `sql_delete …` inputs and parse
+helpers; the walker tests in `mod.rs` use `sqlinsert …` inputs. After
+3j they become `insert …` / `update …` / `delete …` (Advanced mode).
+This is a sizeable but mechanical migration — consider an Explore/
+general-purpose sub-agent for the input-string swaps, compile-verified.
+
+## §5. Sub-phase 3k — verification sweep (after 3j)
+
+Per the plan: fill the cross-cut verification matrix, produce the
+phase-exit verification report at `docs/handoff/-phase-3-
+verification.md`, final DA review (genuine, not rubber-stamp), confirm
+zero failures / zero skips / no regression from the Phase-2 baseline
+(1446/0/1 — note this session's count is 1613 and climbing as tests
+were added per sub-phase). Clippy clean.
+
+## §6. Decisions settled this session (do not re-litigate)
+
+- **3f cascade = count-diff parity** (ADR-0033 **Amendment 2**),
+ user-confirmed. SET NULL reporting **deferred for
+ both DSL and SQL paths** (preserves parity); a future enhancement
+ touches both `do_delete` and `do_sql_delete` together.
+- **`returning: bool`** on the Command variants (ADR §5), not a
+ text field — the auto-fill rewrite preserves the trailing tail
+ instead.
+- **`excluded` scoping = byte-range** (not the plan's TableBinding
+ push) — recorded as a mechanism deviation; behaviour matches §9.
+- **History journal = ADR-0034** (written, **Accepted**): see §7.
+- **not_null = `c.notnull` only** (not `|| primary_key`) — int-PK
+ false-positive avoidance.
+
+## §7. Tracked deferred items (nothing lost)
+
+These are **parked, not dropped** — pick up after Phase 3 (3k) per the
+user's "we'll take care of the extra tasks when phase 3 is complete".
+
+- **TASK #8 — Implement ADR-0034 (history journal).** `history.log`
+ is success-only, but the in-memory Up/Down recall ring records every
+ submission, and the ring is re-seeded from `history.log` on open —
+ so failed commands are recallable in-session but **lost across
+ sessions**. ADR-0034 (`docs/adr/0034-history-journal-and-replay-
+ filter.md`, **Accepted**): make `history.log` a complete journal
+ tagged `ok`/`err`; hydration reads all, replay reads `ok` only.
+ Code = two sub-tasks (journal-failures+filtering; replay-format).
+ Successful commands stay journalled transactionally by the worker;
+ failures journalled `err` best-effort from the runtime/app error
+ path (a parse failure never reaches the worker). Existing all-`ok`
+ logs need no migration.
+- **TASK #9 — Fix broken replay + add the missing test.** `run_replay`
+ (`src/runtime.rs`) parses each whole trimmed line through the DSL
+ parser with NO understanding of the `||` format,
+ so `replay history.log` fails on line 1 — despite ADR-0006 / the
+ `resolve_replay_path` comment promising it works. **No test feeds
+ the pipe format to replay** (the `replay_history_log_records_
+ subcommands_only` test only checks what replay *writes*). Fix:
+ `run_replay` accepts BOTH a journal record (extract+unescape source,
+ skip unless `status==ok`) and a bare command line; detection by the
+ leading timestamp+status prefix. Test-first with a real
+ `history.log`.
+
+### Residuals / observations (lower priority, all discussed)
+
+- **#12 residual is CLOSED** — DO UPDATE SET-RHS / WHERE bare refs are
+ now validated against the target (the `/runda` round). Task #12 is
+ marked completed.
+- **`excluded` completion soft-leak:** completion offers the target's
+ columns for `excluded.|` even outside DO UPDATE (the diagnostic
+ pass strictly scopes it; completion is the softer surface). Untested,
+ advisory, acceptable.
+- **Old-project migration** (from handoff 30 §4): the pre-`check_expr`
+ 3-column `__rdbms_playground_columns` schema; deferred to the
+ migration framework (ADR-0015 Iter 6).
+- **Two-line hint box** (ADR-0022 Amendment 2) — deferred.
+- **`writes_user_listed_column` flag** stays `false` (handoff 31 §7) —
+ VALUES-against-listed-columns completion narrowing, nothing needs it.
+
+## §8. Process pins (unchanged, still binding)
+
+- **Confirm every commit.** Propose the message; wait for the
+ go-ahead. **No auto-commit at sub-phase gates** (this overrides the
+ plan's standing commit pre-authorization — the user confirmed each
+ commit this whole session).
+- **Push is the user's step.** Never push; never prompt about it.
+- **No AI attribution** in commits (global rule).
+- **Test-first.** Reproduce a bug with a FAILING test before fixing;
+ for features, exit-gate tests before "done". The `/runda` round is
+ the model: probe → confirm fail → fix → keep the test.
+- **Core walker changes** (`walk_seq` / `walk_choice` /
+ `walk_repeated`) need explicit user OK before coding. (New *node
+ variants* and new *post-walk passes* do not — those were added
+ freely this session.)
+- **Escalate ambiguity / ADR-mechanism mismatches; never classify
+ work out of scope without user confirmation.** Resolve mechanism
+ changes by ADR amendment BEFORE coding (3f, 3h, history all did).
+- **`/runda`** (the extra-DA-round skill) is a user-invoked tool — do
+ not invoke it yourself, but internalise its lesson: re-check
+ cross-cut interactions.
+
+## §9. How to take over
+
+1. **Read, in order:** this file →
+ `docs/adr/0033-sql-dml-grammar.md` (esp. **Amendment 1** —
+ dispatch — and **Amendment 2** — cascade) →
+ `docs/plans/20260520-adr-0033-phase-3.md` "Sub-phase 3j" + "3k" →
+ `docs/adr/0034-history-journal-and-replay-filter.md` (parked) →
+ `CLAUDE.md`.
+2. **Baseline:**
+ ```
+ cargo test # expect 1613 passing / 0 failing / 1 ignored
+ cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings # clean
+ ```
+3. **Start 3j** per §4. The dispatch machinery (Amendment 1,
+ category-grouped) already exists and is how `select`/`with` work —
+ 3j adds the SQL `insert`/`update`/`delete` nodes as `Advanced`
+ alongside the `Simple` DSL nodes, removes the dev words, simplifies
+ the three `build_sql_*` builders, de-dups completion entry-word
+ lists, and migrates the dev-word test inputs. Expect a sizeable but
+ mechanical test migration (the three `tests/sql_*.rs` + walker
+ tests hard-code `sqlinsert`/`sql_update`/`sql_delete`).
+4. **Re-run the full diagnostic suite after 3j** (§4 heads-up) — the
+ path-shape change is the risk.
+5. Then **3k** (verification sweep + phase-exit report).
+6. **Escalate** anything not settled in ADR-0033 / the plan; the user
+ wants mechanism mismatches surfaced, not silently fixed.