Key-value and where-pair plans had no row limit, so a selector pointed at a history
or events table materialised every matching row on every poll. ISqlDialect gains
RowLimitPrefix/RowLimitSuffix(n) (SQL Server TOP (n), Postgres LIMIT n, Oracle FETCH
FIRST n ROWS ONLY); plans carry a RowCap (distinct keys, or 1) and ask for RowCap+1
rows; the reader also stops client-side at RowCap+1. Getting the extra row proves the
selector ambiguous: the group publishes BadConfigurationError with a rate-limited
warning. The reader reports those answered refusals so the driver counts them as
answer evidence, and any refusal-only poll now restores Healthy after a comms fault.
Refs #744
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT
PreferredTimestampColumn nominated the first column mapping to DriverDataType
.DateTime, and that set includes date-only types (SQL Server / PostgreSQL
'date'). A table whose first date/time column is a 'date' committed
rowSelector.topByTimestamp = <date>, making the wide-row read ORDER BY <date>
DESC LIMIT 1 - which ties for every row written that day, so 'the newest row'
became storage order among the ties.
Time-bearing candidates now outrank date-only ones; a date-only column is still
stated when it is all the table has, so such a table stays bindable. Oracle's
DATE carries a time of day and is exempt - pinned by a control dialect that
differs from the SQLite one only in the Provider it reports.
Joseph Doherty