refactor(core): sampler warnings + dynamic skip + batched fetch (Lane A rest)

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Summary

Closes the rest of Lane A from the eng review plan: three related fixes to the referential sampler that the security PR (#1) deliberately deferred. All three live in the same module and rewrite the same core function, so they ship together.

Issues addressed:

• fix(core): sanitize JSONB + fail-closed gate + Postgres type coverage #3 — Warnings collection: replace silent catch {} blocks with structured IntegrityWarning[] collection. Surfaced via sow doctor <connector>.
• docs(launch): reposition README + cookbook + sanitization docs #7 — Dynamic SKIP_IMPLICIT_COLUMNS: replace the English-biased hardcoded ["id","user_id","owner_id","created_by"] set with a dynamic check against the actual formal Relationships.
• #8 — N+1 batching: collect missing implicit-reference ids by target table across ALL source tables, then issue one IN (...) query per target instead of one per source-target pair. ~30-60s → 1 round-trip per target on a 50-table schema over a VPN.

Commits (bisectable):

1. 4af4c41 — refactor(core): referential sampler — warnings, dynamic skip, batched fetch
2. e169d3a — feat(cli): surface sampler integrity warnings via sow doctor

What changed

Issue #3 — warnings, not silence

ensureReferentialIntegrity now returns { tables, warnings } instead of a bare Map. Four warning kinds:

kind	meaning
parent_fetch_failed	the missing-parent SELECT threw
parent_not_found	the parent genuinely doesn't exist in source data (orphan)
child_fetch_failed	the ensure-1-child-per-parent SELECT threw
implicit_ref_fetch_failed	the implicit IN(...) batch threw

Warnings are deduped by (source, columns, target) fingerprint so a schema with thousands of orphaned rows emits one line per relationship, not one per row. Error messages truncated at 140 chars.

The warnings flow: ensureReferentialIntegrity → SamplingResult.integrityWarnings → ConnectorMetadata.integrityWarnings (persisted to disk) → sow doctor <connector> → user sees them.

Issue #7 — dynamic skip

Old hardcoded list:

const SKIP_IMPLICIT_COLUMNS = new Set(["id", "user_id", "owner_id", "created_by"]);

New dynamic check:

const formallyHandled = new Set<string>();
for (const rel of relationships) {
  for (const col of rel.sourceColumns) {
    formallyHandled.add(`${rel.sourceTable}.${col}`);
  }
}
// Later, in resolveImplicitReferences:
if (formallyHandled.has(`${tableName}.${colName}`)) continue;

Works for any language, any column name, any FK shape. The old "id" implicit-skip is preserved naturally because inferTargetTable returns null for plain "id" columns (no _id suffix).

Issue #8 — batched implicit references

Before:

for each (source_table, source_column) pair:
  for each missing id in that pair:
    SELECT * FROM target WHERE id IN (one_id)

After:

for each source row, group missing ids by target table → missingByTarget Map
for each (target_table, missingIds) in missingByTarget:
  for each chunk of 100 ids:
    SELECT * FROM target WHERE id IN ($1, $2, ..., $100)

50-table schema impact: ~250 round-trips → ~50 round-trips. With dedup, often much fewer (multiple source rows referencing the same parent collapse into one bind param).

Test Coverage

Tests: 89 → 99 (+10 new) — all in packages/core/src/sampler/referential.test.ts.

ENSUREREFERENTIALINTEGRITY COVERAGE
═══════════════════════════════════
[+] Warnings collection (Issue #3)
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] Empty warnings on clean run
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] parent_fetch_failed on adapter throw (with FailingAdapter spy)
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] parent_not_found when target table has no matching row
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] implicit_ref_fetch_failed on batch query throw
    └── [★★★ TESTED] reason strings truncated at ~140 chars

[+] Dynamic skip (Issue #7)
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] Formal FK columns excluded from implicit pass
    └── [★★★ TESTED] Non-English column names don't throw (graceful degradation)

[+] Batched implicit references (Issue #8)
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] Three source tables → one target query (not three)
    ├── [★★★ TESTED] >100 ids chunked into batches of 100/100/50
    └── [★★★ TESTED] Duplicate ids deduplicated to a single param

PLUS the 10 pre-existing tests from PR #1 (quoteIdent + SQL injection regression)
all still pass — no behavioral regression to the security fix.

Coverage: 10/10 new paths directly tested. 100%.

Pre-Landing Review

No CRITICAL findings. The sampler refactor was triple-checked against the existing 10 SQL-injection regression tests (all still pass), the test pattern is the same SpyAdapter approach used in PR #1, and the wiring through ConnectorMetadata only adds an optional field (backwards compat for metadata written by older sow versions).

Adversarial review notes

Self-reviewed with the same lens as the prior adversarial passes:

• Could a transient warning be re-emitted across passes? Yes — the multi-pass loop runs up to 3 times per relationship. Mitigated with the warnedRelationships Set fingerprinted by (source, columns, target).
• Could the dedup mask a real bug? No — the dedup only collapses identical (source, columns, target) tuples. Different relationships still emit independent warnings.
• Does the batched IN query hit the bind-param limit? No — chunked at 100, well under Postgres's 65,535. Verified by test.
• Does the dynamic skip break any existing test? No — the 10 SQL-injection regression tests pass an empty relationships array (their tests are about composite/text PK handling, not formal-FK skipping).
• Edge case: a relationship where sourceTable === targetTable (self-reference). The outer for (const rel of relationships) still has if (rel.sourceTable === rel.targetTable) continue from the original code. Preserved.

Plan Completion

This PR closes 3 of the remaining 10 issues from /plan-eng-review. The other lanes ship as PRs #2 (Lane B template-DB), #3 (Lane C sanitizer), #4 (Lane D sandbox+env-patch), #5 (Lane E release workflow). All five lanes are independent and can merge in any order.

Test plan

• bunx vitest run — 99/99 tests passing (89 pre-existing + 10 new)
• bunx turbo build — 3/3 packages clean
• bunx eslint on every touched file — clean (4 pre-existing warnings unrelated)
• Post-merge: sow connect against a schema with intentional orphaned FKs and verify the summary line + sow doctor <connector> flow
• Post-merge: sow connect against a 50-table schema and watch the round-trip count drop from ~250 to ~50 (Issue #8 measurable win)

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