Task: Generate the entity part of each component's SQL aggregates

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This page documents a task in the Complete the ORE report configuration story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.

1. Goal

A new entity reaches the database with no hand-edited aggregate. Codegen owns the list of a component's entity files; people own only the hand-written files and the prose around them.

2. Status

Field Value
State BACKLOG
Parent story Complete the ORE report configuration
Now Not yet started.
Waiting on Nothing.
Next Begin implementation.
Last touched 2026-10-02

3. Acceptance

  • Codegen emits, per component, a create fragment listing each entity table then its notify trigger, and a drop fragment listing each notify trigger drop then its table drop.
  • Each component's hand-written create and drop aggregate includes its fragment once, and no longer lists a generated entity file itself.
  • A database recreate succeeds, and the set of tables, functions, triggers and policies it builds is identical to the set before the change.
  • Adding an entity to a component needs no aggregate edit, and the drift check fails when a fragment is stale.

4. Plan

(Implementation strategy. Written when work starts; key decisions are distilled into the parent story's * Decisions at close, but the plan itself stays — it is the historical record of what we did.)

5. Measurements

Every number this task claims about a tree, with the command that produced it and the commit it was measured at. A number without both is not a measurement, because a clean-up record describes a tree and trunk moves under a branch: a consumer count, a gate's component count and a suite's size all change with no code changing, and the reader of a bare number cannot tell which tree it came from. Where the raw output matters, put it in an evidence/ file beside the task and name that file in the Command column.

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6. Notes

From the hand-written SQL census in Find why so much SQL is hand-written and generate what codegen can.

Order inside a component does not depend on soft foreign keys: 88 tables are already created before the parent their insert trigger checks, and every recreate succeeds. What does need order: a table before its notify trigger, the trigger drop before the table drop, functions from earlier components (the root create.sql already orders those), and hand-written files that name a table when they are created (SQL-language functions, views, alter scripts), which must come after the fragment.

First check, before changing any aggregate: recreate a scratch database with one component's aggregate reordered to the planned shape, and compare its catalogue with the current one.

7. Test Scenarios

Manual QA scenarios (scaffolded via compass add test_scenario) that verify this task. Link new ones here as they're created; the scenario doc itself links back via its "Verifies task" field.

Scenario State Notes
     

8. PRs

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9. Review

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10. Result

Emacs 29.3 (Org mode 9.6.15)