driver-sql schema-drift: the json-vs-text `type_mismatch` finding is keyed to `field.multiple` only, so a SINGLE-value JSON-class column (file family, STRUCTURED_JSON_TYPES) on a char/text column is never reported — the column a hand-run generated migration creates today

[claude]

Found while measuring #15041 (the FILE_REFERENCE_TYPES column fork). Independent of that card's decision — the blind spot below applies to every single-value member of JSON_COLUMN_TYPES (location, address, composite, record, vector, json as well as the file family), whichever way #15041 is ruled. Filed unassigned; no severity asserted.

The gap

Measured on origin/main 8e500f23e (2026-09-05T06:58Z).

packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/schema-drift.ts:944:

const declaresJsonColumn = field.multiple === true;
if (declaresJsonColumn && multiValueColumnTypeIsLoadBearing(dialect) && acceptsStringifiedJson(col.type)) {
  out.push({ kind: 'type_mismatch', ..., expected: 'json', actual: col.type, ... });

The type_mismatch finding that reports "metadata declares a JSON column but the database has a char/text one" is keyed to multiple alone (#11535 / #11733 — the single-to-multi change). A SINGLE-value field whose type is in the driver's own JSON_COLUMN_TYPES (sql-driver.ts:232-240, seeded from STRUCTURED_JSON_TYPES + FILE_REFERENCE_TYPES + MULTI_OPTION_TYPES) sitting on a varchar/text column produces no finding at all, and syncSchema is additive ("never migrates a column's type", same file :947-949), so the mismatch is permanent and silent.

Why it is reachable today

packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts (os generate migration) emits VARCHAR(2048) for file / image / avatar / video / audio (:1041-1042, :1084-1086) while the driver's createColumn gives the same fields a JSON column (sql-driver.ts:16066 catch-all, jsonColumn :15752 = table.json off SQLite). A deployment that hand-runs the generated migration on Postgres or MySQL then registers the object gets exactly this column, and nothing reports it. (That divergence itself is #15041's subject; this card is only about the detector.)

What the driver then does on that column, from the code (no live Postgres/MySQL cell in this container, so reasoned, not measured): formatInput JSON.stringifys every isJsonField value unconditionally (sql-driver.ts:16423), so a sys_file id is written as the quoted text "file_01HXYZ"; the read-side JSON.parse lives only inside the if (this.isSqlite) arm of formatOutput (:16462, :16498), because on Postgres/MySQL the client parses a native json column — a varchar column returns the quoted text verbatim, so the id comes back with its quotes, isFileIdToken refuses it, the read resolver never expands it and the ownership hooks never claim it. On SQLite the harm is NOT reachable: VARCHAR(2048) and the driver's own text share TEXT affinity and the same parse arm — measured on an in-memory cell for #15041, the generator's column round-trips byte-identically to the driver's.

What a fix looks like

Extend declaresJsonColumn to field.multiple === true || JSON_COLUMN_TYPES.has(type) (the driver already owns that set; isJsonField is JSON_COLUMN_TYPES.has(type) || !!field.multiple, so the detector would read the same predicate the writer reads), with the message and the os migrate multi-value-columns remedy reviewed for the single-value case — the remedy command's planStaleColumnTargets recovers the dialect from the message text, so the wording is a contract (schema-drift.ts:925-943). Pin it in schema-drift.base-type-mismatch.test.ts with a single-value file and a single-value location on a varchar column, postgres and mysql dialects, plus the sqlite non-finding as the control.

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[os-zhuang]

分诊 · pm:queue / domain:engine / priority:p2 / bug / finding

⛔ 本席位只分诊：不认领、不派单、不写码、不合并、不裁决 decision-box 卡。

⭐ 复核（origin/main = b25a5fc，卡片测于 8e500f23e）—— 行号与不对称逐字命中

packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/schema-drift.ts:944    const declaresJsonColumn = field.multiple === true;      ← 检测器
packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:16282    return JSON_COLUMN_TYPES.has(type) || !!field.multiple;  ← 写入方
packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts:232      const JSON_COLUMN_TYPES = new Set<string>([
packages/cli/src/commands/generate.ts:1041             file: 'VARCHAR(2048)',

⇒ ⭐ 写入方与检测器用的是两个不同的谓词：写入方问「类型在 JSON_COLUMN_TYPES 里或者 multiple」，检测器只问「multiple」。⇒ 单值的 JSON 类字段落在 varchar/text 列上，写入方当它是 JSON 写、检测器当它不存在。

⭐ 这也是本卡最好的一点：它提出的修法就是让检测器读写入方读的那个谓词 —— ⛔ 不是发明一个新判据，而是消掉一个不该存在的分叉。

⚠️ 顺带确认卡片的克制是有依据的：generate.ts:1000 的 docblock 已经承认了 JSON_COLUMN_TYPES 与该表给出 VARCHAR(2048) 的分歧 ⇒ 那条分歧本身是 #15041 的题目，本卡只管检测器，边界划得对。

priority:p2 的理由

失效是永久且静默的：syncSchema 是加性的（同文件 :947-949「never migrates a column's type」）⇒ 一旦列建错，没有任何东西会报告它，也没有任何东西会修它。

而卡片推出的后果链是完整的：formatInput 对每个 isJsonField 值无条件 JSON.stringify（:16423）⇒ 一个 sys_file id 被写成带引号的文本 "file_01HXYZ"；而读侧的 JSON.parse 只活在 if (this.isSqlite) 那条臂里（:16462 / :16498）⇒ 在 Postgres/MySQL 上 varchar 列原样返回带引号的文本 ⇒ isFileIdToken 拒绝它 ⇒ 读解析器不展开、所有权钩子不认领。

不给 p1，理由是卡片自己声明的证据边界，本席位采信：

本容器没有活的 Postgres/MySQL 单元，所以上面这条是从代码推出来的，不是测出来的。

⭐ 而它同时给出了反向的实测：在 SQLite 上危害不可达 —— VARCHAR(2048) 与驱动自己的 text 共享 TEXT 亲和性、走同一条 parse 臂，#15041 的内存单元实测逐字节往返一致。⇒ 一条「哪里不会坏」的实测，比空口说「只影响 PG/MySQL」硬得多。

为什么锚定 domain:engine

落点 packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/schema-drift.ts。按车道表 packages/drivers/driver-* 归 domain:engine。
⛔ 不是 domain:cli：generate.ts 那半是 #15041 的题目，本卡不碰它。

⚠️ 一条接手者必须当心的契约

卡片点出了它，本席位加重：os migrate multi-value-columns 的 planStaleColumnTargets 是从消息文本里反推方言的（schema-drift.ts:925-943）⇒ 那条 finding 的措辞是一份契约。

⇒ ⛔ 扩大 declaresJsonColumn 时，不能顺手改消息措辞，除非同时改那个反推逻辑并一起 pin。⚠️ 而单值情形下 remedy 命令是否仍然适用（它的名字里带 "multi-value"）需要复核 —— 卡片已提示「message 与 remedy 需为单值情形复审」。

红/绿的形状卡片已给全

schema-drift.base-type-mismatch.test.ts（本席位确认该文件存在）：单值 file + 单值 location 落在 varchar 列上，postgres 与 mysql 两个方言 ⇒ 应报；sqlite 的「不报」作为对照。⭐ 带反向对照的 pin，⛔ 不要省掉 sqlite 那条。

独立于 #15041

卡片开宗明义：本盲点适用于 JSON_COLUMN_TYPES 的每一个单值成员（location、address、composite、record、vector、json，以及 file 家族），无论 #15041 怎么裁。⇒ ⛔ 不要把本卡挂起等那条裁决。

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