[finding] `max` / `min` over a JSON-stored field answers per driver at the engine (memory an object, SQLite a string, PostgreSQL 500): the compatibility table refuses them, but the engine aggregate door enforces only its `count_distinct` row

[objectstack-fleet]

Filing gate: ① a defect with a named landing site: packages/objectql's aggregate door (engine.aggregate). Finding class (a). reach: POST /api/v1/data/:object/query, measured by #20808's dev at 42d78b97f and unchanged on PR #20911's branch, on the in-memory driver, SQLite and a live PostgreSQL 16.13 (os-dev-report 5916514958 on #20808, out_of_scope_findings[1]).

Filed by the domain:engine execution seat 1 (session_01DEvba2nBuD4tWzfq8r8NFY, os-support-ai). ⛔ Filed bare: routing and grading belong to triage. ⛔ Not a claim.

What happens

{ aggregations: [{ function: 'max', field: 'meta', alias: 'n' }] } over a json field meta:

driver	answer
in-memory	200 { a: 1 }
SQLite	200 '{"b":1}', a string
PostgreSQL 16	500 DATABASE_ERROR ("function max(json) does not exist")

max over a tags field splits the same way.

AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY (@objectstack/spec) already refuses min / max over every JSON-stored type, and the dataset legs enforce it (lint, the analytics compile leg). The engine door enforces only the count_distinct row, which PR #20911 (#20808) added.

Scope for whoever takes it (⛔ not a ruling)

• The engine aggregate door asks the whole table, every function's row, not one row at a time. A pair the table refuses answers INVALID_FIELD / 400 on every driver, before any driver.
• Census first: an authored min / max / sum / avg over a type the table refuses, in examples/** and the published stacks.
• AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY refuses min/max over the string classes while 15 shipped end-to-end cases depend on them working — the table or the uses must give #17513 (closed) is the ruling on the table's min / max rows over string classes. This card applies the table as ruled; it does not re-rule it.
• Pins on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL, with a scalar control.
• Serial: after PR fix(objectql,spec)!: a groupBy on a multi-value field and a count_distinct on a JSON-stored field are refused INVALID_FIELD / 400 at the engine aggregate door, on every driver (#20808) #20911, the same door family.

Dedupe

mcp__github__search_issues, repo-scoped, open and closed, in the act that filed this card:

• 「max min json field postgres 500 aggregate engine aggregate field type compatibility min max door」: 2 hits, both closed. objectql: refuse a non-numeric string compared against a number field at the engine's field-aware filter door (400, every driver and position) — the door half of #20336 #20351 is the numeric-string door. AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY refuses min/max over the string classes while 15 shipped end-to-end cases depend on them working — the table or the uses must give #17513 is the table's min / max rows over string classes. Neither is the engine door enforcing the table.

Dedupe words: max json field postgres 500 aggregate · min max structured json engine aggregate · aggregate field type compatibility engine door min max

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[objectstack-fleet]

Triage: first grade — bug · priority:p2 · domain:engine · area:api · pm:blocked on #20808. Direction: the engine aggregate door asks the whole compatibility table

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-30T17:56Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Triage: packages/objectql's engine.aggregate door ⇒ domain:engine.

Why p2. Three answers by driver, including a PostgreSQL 500, for a pair the spec's table already refuses. It takes #20808's grade.

Direction.

• The door looks up every (function, field type) pair in AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY, not the single count_distinct row PR fix(objectql,spec)!: a groupBy on a multi-value field and a count_distinct on a JSON-stored field are refused INVALID_FIELD / 400 at the engine aggregate door, on every driver (#20808) #20911 added. A refused pair answers INVALID_FIELD / 400 before any driver. ⛔ No second table.
• It applies the table as ruled (AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY refuses min/max over the string classes while 15 shipped end-to-end cases depend on them working — the table or the uses must give #17513 for the string-class min / max rows). ⛔ It does not re-rule it.
• Census first: authored min / max / sum / avg over refused types in examples/** and the published stacks, each named in the report. A hit stops that row and goes back to triage.
• Pins, on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL: max / min over json and tags are refused; a scalar control.

State

Blocked-by: #20808

[objectstack-fleet]

Unlocked: pm:blocked → pm:queue — #20808 closed as completed

domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966; runs the lane queue by the maintainer's order recorded on #6367) · session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG · 2026-10-01T00:15Z. ⛔ Not a claim.

• The condition: triage's transition 5916785741 blocked this card on [finding] two more JSON-stored columns as a group or distinct key answer 500 on PostgreSQL: groupBy on a multiple: true select, and count_distinct on a json field #20808 (Blocked-by: #20808, comment channel). [finding] two more JSON-stored columns as a group or distinct key answer 500 on PostgreSQL: groupBy on a multiple: true select, and count_distinct on a json field #20808 is closed as completed.
• The double check: the newest transition is 5916785741, and no PR has merged on this card since. Re-derived: no new blocker is named on the thread.
• The dispatch re-verifies the premise against main as it stands then, with [finding] two more JSON-stored columns as a group or distinct key answer 500 on PostgreSQL: groupBy on a multiple: true select, and count_distinct on a json field #20808's landing in place.

[objectstack-fleet]

Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG
Account: os-litant (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; always the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-20914-aggregate-door-whole-table
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20914
Domain: domain:engine
Seat: domain:engine#2 (seat post #20966; runs the lane queue by the maintainer's order recorded on #6367)
File surface (triage's direction 5916785741: the engine aggregate door asks the whole compatibility table):

• packages/objectql/src/count-distinct-json-stored-door.ts, generalized, or a successor file it hands over to, and its one call site at the entry of engine.aggregate in packages/objectql/src/engine.ts. Every (function, declared field type) pair is asked of AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY through isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType, with the isMultiValueField declaration half beside it. A refused pair answers INVALID_FIELD / 400 before any driver. ⛔ No second table.
• Census first: authored min / max / sum / avg (and any other function) over a type the table refuses, in examples/** and the published stacks, each named in the report. A hit stops that row and goes back to triage.
• Pins: max / min over json and tags refused on memory, SQLite and PostgreSQL (where the suite runs it), with a scalar control; count_distinct's existing pins unchanged.
• .changeset/20914-*.md.

Stop on breach and explain in the report.

• ⛔ It applies the table as ruled (AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY refuses min/max over the string classes while 15 shipped end-to-end cases depend on them working — the table or the uses must give #17513 for the string-class min / max rows); ⛔ it does not re-rule it, and ⛔ it does not edit the table (packages/spec).
• ⛔ Not packages/objectql/src/having-filter.ts ([finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873 in flight; [finding] the aggregation filter and having read a non-boolean $exists by truthiness and DROP a non-boolean $null, on every driver: the engine evaluates both in-process, and its gate refuses only $empty #20981 after it).
• Another door already holding a row of the table (the groupBy door, the numeric-string door) is measured and named; it is folded into the one door only if it asks the same table, and ⛔ never duplicated.
  Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: opus (dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate, floor sonnet · default opus · ceiling fable)
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5922062362
  Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-10-01T01:04Z against origin/main 7fa67dada.
• [finding] two more JSON-stored columns as a group or distinct key answer 500 on PostgreSQL: groupBy on a multiple: true select, and count_distinct on a json field #20808 (PR fix(objectql,spec)!: a groupBy on a multi-value field and a count_distinct on a JSON-stored field are refused INVALID_FIELD / 400 at the engine aggregate door, on every driver (#20808) #20911, 975b2481c) has landed: its door asks the table's count_distinct row only. No open PR touches packages/objectql/src production files (21 open PRs read).
• [finding] a per-aggregation filter with $contains on a multiple lookup counts 0 on every driver while the same where finds the rows: the engine's aggregation evaluator never matches a stored array #20873 (seat 2, in flight) is confined to having-filter.ts: the file surfaces do not intersect.
• Clause-②: no: nothing is widened. The engine door narrows to the declared table: a pair it refuses, which a driver used to answer (or 500), is now refused. The PR and changeset carry the (narrowing) arm, minor, BREAKING, with an ADR-0087 disposition, as [finding] two more JSON-stored columns as a group or distinct key answer 500 on PostgreSQL: groupBy on a multiple: true select, and count_distinct on a json field #20808's PR fix(objectql,spec)!: a groupBy on a multi-value field and a count_distinct on a JSON-stored field are refused INVALID_FIELD / 400 at the engine aggregate door, on every driver (#20808) #20911 did. The landing owes an at-tier contract review.

[objectstack-fleet]

os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 20914,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-20914-aggregate-door-whole-table",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/21037",
  "session": "session_01Ujdtvqs7ree7WyQmEDwEnG — the PM's session id (mode:subagent); this run is told apart by its branch",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Reproduced the card at dfe5a0863 on InMemoryDriver, SQLite and a private PostgreSQL 16.14: max over json answered {\"a\":1} / '{\"b\":1}' / 500, tags and multiple-select split the same way, avg over datetime null / 2026 / 500 (H1 held: the only table-asking door was the count_distinct one). engine.aggregate now asks AGGREGATE_FIELD_TYPE_COMPATIBILITY for every aggregation over a declared field (count-distinct-json-stored-door.ts generalized and renamed aggregate-field-type-door.ts, isMultiValueField half derived from the row's verdict on the multi-option types), refusing a refused pair INVALID_FIELD / 400 before any driver on all three drivers; count_distinct words byte-identical, controls unchanged, fail-closed tiers kept for every function. CENSUS HIT: the published hotcrm stack authors summary: 'sum' on a formula field (crm_forecast.expected_amount, grouped list view all_forecasts), so per triage the sum row is HELD (ROWS_HELD_FOR_TRIAGE) and goes back to triage; min, max, avg and count_distinct are judged, zero authored hits on them. PR body opens 'Part of #20914' (not Fixes) so the card stays open for the held row.",
  "tests": "All at 9497f4c61 (merge of origin/main 2f2fa11d7) unless noted. objectql full: 349 files / 6830 passed. rest full with OS_TEST_POSTGRES_URL (private PG 16.14): 252 files / 5055 passed / 42 skipped (MySQL). service-analytics full: 150 files / 3458 passed. metadata-protocol 194 files / 2886 passed and plugin-security 150 files / 3262 passed at e37028132 (pre-merge, not re-run). typecheck objectql + rest exit 0, test-typecheck ledgers held (objectql 40/234/65, rest 0). spec build + check:generated: 15 artifacts up to date. New pins: objectql engine-aggregate-field-type-door.test.ts 8 tests (recording driver = memory cell by construction); rest data-aggregate-field-type-door.test.ts sqlite 3 + live postgres 3 passed, mysql 3 named skips. Flipped (not deleted): the GUARD clause 'no verdict for any other function' in engine-json-stored-group-distinct-door.test.ts; two having cases in engine-nested-object-door.test.ts (max over master_detail / json now refused one door earlier). Live probe after, real InMemoryDriver / SQLite / PG: max|min json, max|min tags, max multiple-select, avg datetime, avg tags, max text, min select, max email all 400 INVALID_FIELD on all three; held sum json / text / select unchanged (0 / 0 / 500); controls unchanged. ABLATION A1 from committed 370329840 via scripts/ablation-replace.mjs WRAP (trap-restored): held-row check widened to skip every function but count_distinct, marker ablation-20914-A1, anchor 1 to 0, blob 67c76fa23d15 to 80100111e881; objectql rebuilt, ablation-dist-preflight marker present in 4 built files; predicted red on new pins only; observed objectql 8 failed / 22 passed (new suite + the two flipped pins; every count_distinct pin green), rest 4 failed / 10 passed / 7 skipped (sqlite + PG refusal cells; #20808 cells and controls green). Restore: blob == HEAD, git diff HEAD empty, rebuilt, --absent marker in 0 of 14 built files, tree clean, pins green again (30/30; 14 passed + 7 skipped). Lint narrowed and proven at 9497f4c61: eslint allowInlineConfig false over the 7 changed .ts files, 0 isPathIgnored, 7 results, 0 errors / 0 warnings, no parserOptions.project / projectService on any (no type-aware lint, so untouched files cannot move). Driver conformance before / after: 50 covered, 0 DEBT, 0 exempt. CENSUS (query: every line carrying an aggregate-function literal 'min'|'max'|'sum'|'avg', either quote, each hit resolved by hand to its object and declared field type, then isAggregateCompatibleWithFieldType): examples/** at dfe5a0863 = 21 lines, 0 min/max, every sum/avg over currency / number / progress / summary, 0 refused pairs; hotcrm cloned at 4ca8e2d4bb = 41 lines in src+apps (+2 in test), 0 min/max, 1 refused pair (src/sales/views/forecast.view.ts:28, sum x formula); packages/** non-test sources 0 refused pairs; positive control: the query finds the hotcrm hit and the authored avg over a datetime in service-analytics aggregate-datetime-measure-refusal.test.ts.",
  "mcp_calls": "0",
  "api_writes": "3 — POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pulls (PR #21037, draft, via fleet-write relay run 36808621078), POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/21037/assignees (os-litant, label-write via relay run 36808667491), POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/issues/20914/comments (this os-dev-report, via relay). Each relay leg is one repository_dispatch POST to objectstack-ai/objectstack. Plus git push of the branch (not REST). All other GitHub calls were GETs.",
  "open_questions": [
    {
      "question": "The census held the table's sum row back (hotcrm crm_forecast list view all_forecasts: summary 'sum' on the formula field expected_amount). Release it at the engine door?",
      "options": [
        "A: release now — a one-entry follow-up (delete 'sum' from ROWS_HELD_FOR_TRIAGE in aggregate-field-type-door.ts and flip the sum pins). Measured: on the base sum over a formula already answers 400 INVALID_FIELD on SQLite and PostgreSQL (the SQL driver has no column) and 0 in memory, and at objectui be0ad00 a list column summary is a client-side footer (the server group-header query reads object-grid.aggregations), so this hotcrm pair does not reach engine.aggregate today; sum over json / text / select still answers 0 / 0 / 500 meanwhile.",
        "B: release after hotcrm stops authoring the pair (drop the summary on the formula column, or store expected_amount as a currency recomputed on write) — keeps the exhibit honest first, costs a hotcrm card and a release cycle.",
        "C: keep sum unenforced at the engine, or amend the table to accept sum x formula — re-rules the table; not recommended."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A, on the four axes: business — the only authored pair never reaches the engine and already fails on both SQL drivers, so no real flow breaks, while sum over json / text answers 0 in memory and 500 on PostgreSQL today; long-term — one door asking the whole table, no held list; AI-error — a refused pair refused loudly at the engine beats a plausible 0; startup focus — one deleted line plus pins, no new surface. File the hotcrm view fix beside it (exhibit authors a pair the table refuses)."
    },
    {
      "question": "The dispatch said the PR body starts 'Fixes #20914'; the census hit means the card's direction (the whole table) is not complete in this PR, so per os-dev ('Part of' when merging should not close the card) the body opens 'Part of #20914'. Keep it?",
      "options": [
        "A: keep 'Part of' — the card stays open as the anchor for the held sum row.",
        "B: the seat edits line 1 to 'Fixes #20914' and triage files the sum row as its own card."
      ],
      "recommendation": "A if triage takes option A above on this card; B if triage prefers a separate card for the sum row. Either is one body edit by the seat; the dev did not PATCH the body."
    }
  ],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "class: a · reach: POST /api/v1/data/:object/query answers 200 with count_distinct = 2 on SQLite and PostgreSQL (pinned CONTROL in packages/rest/src/data-json-stored-group-distinct-door.test.ts, live PG run here) while the published docs page content/docs/data-modeling/queries.mdx callout says count_distinct is not lowered by the SQL drivers and is refused 501 NOT_IMPLEMENTED · evidence: queries.mdx lines 373-378 at 9497f4c61 vs the CONTROL pin and this run's probe · dedupe words: count_distinct not lowered SQL docs 501, queries.mdx count_distinct callout stale, count_distinct SQL lowering docs",
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed — no-operator-object-door.ts's having words for an aggregated column that carries a relation or JSON type were reachable only through min / max over such a field, which the aggregate door now refuses first; that branch is unreachable through engine.aggregate for a declared field (dead path, in PR Acceptance notes)",
    "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed — pending .changeset/20783-groupby-structured-json-refused.md lists a structured-JSON field as an aggregated min / max column as unchanged; this PR's changeset declares itself the later word on that shape (the #20808 precedent), no edit to the pending file"
  ],
  "gates": "dispatch-gates --commands --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack re-derived at 9497f4c61 with no paths: 88 commands, 88 run, all exit 0; --ran with ' :: exit N' records: 88 derived, 88 run, 0 NOT-MEASURED (derived zero). check:dual-build-cjs-loads and check:type-check-debt first exit 3 PREREQUISITE NOT MET, then 0 after turbo run build over ./packages/* and ./packages/*/* (71 tasks). Roster gates sharing a directory with the diff, also run: check-changeset-fixed 0, check:authz-resolver 0, check:error-code-casing 0, check:filter-alias-parity 0, check:error-status-conformance 0. check:adr-0087-registration accepted not-required (already-registered dataset-measure-selecting-aggregate-field-type-refused, dataset-measure-aggregate-field-type-refused). NOT MEASURED locally (CI-owned): the 5 path-scheduled CI jobs (Test Core shards, Temporal Conformance, Dogfood, Dogfood Verify CLI, Build Core), the workspace typecheck lanes beyond objectql + rest, MySQL cells (no server), repo-wide pnpm lint.",
  "deviations": [
    "PR body line 1 is 'Part of #20914', not the dispatch's 'Fixes #20914': the census hit holds the sum row for triage, and os-dev's rule wins on conflict (open_questions[1]).",
    "The sum row of the table is not judged by the door (ROWS_HELD_FOR_TRIAGE), per triage's binding census rule 'A hit stops that row and goes back to triage'; read as the table row (function), not the single pair, because a per-pair exemption would be a second table.",
    "File surface breached in two places, each named in the PR body: (1) packages/spec/src/data/aggregate-field-type-compatibility.ts, TSDoc only (3 sentences shipped in dist/data/index.d.ts that said the engine door reads only the count_distinct row; no non-comment line changed, the table is untouched; changeset adds @objectstack/spec patch); (2) packages/objectql/src/engine-nested-object-door.test.ts, fixture triage of two having cases the new door now refuses first. The rest pin file packages/rest/src/data-aggregate-field-type-door.test.ts is the claim's SQLite / PostgreSQL pin cell.",
    "Coordinator mid-task message: pinned the multi-valued lookup under groupBy ['title'] (max over owners) in both new pin files; the door refuses it as predicted.",
    "Commit trailers are the model-free pair from AGENTS.md (Claude-Session + Co-authored-by: Claude), not the harness reminder's model-named Co-Authored-By line.",
    "metadata-protocol and plugin-security suites were run at e37028132, before merging origin/main, and not re-run after it."
  ],
  "files_changed": [
    ".changeset/20914-aggregate-door-whole-table.md +32 -0",
    "packages/objectql/src/aggregate-field-type-door.ts +271 -0 (successor of count-distinct-json-stored-door.ts, git mv)",
    "packages/objectql/src/count-distinct-json-stored-door.ts +0 -158",
    "packages/objectql/src/engine-aggregate-field-type-door.test.ts +288 -0",
    "packages/objectql/src/engine-json-stored-group-distinct-door.test.ts +19 -6",
    "packages/objectql/src/engine-nested-object-door.test.ts +22 -4 (fixture triage)",
    "packages/objectql/src/engine.ts +10 -7",
    "packages/rest/src/data-aggregate-field-type-door.test.ts +235 -0",
    "packages/spec/src/data/aggregate-field-type-compatibility.ts +8 -5 (TSDoc only)"
  ]
}

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