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What this changes

Adds check constraints on the health columns of the project and project_update tables to restrict values to on_track, at_risk, off_track, and no_update. Generates the Drizzle migration (0017_typical_freak.sql) and adds schema tests verifying values outside the allowed set are refused.

Why

PROJECT_HEALTHS in packages/shared/src/constants/project.ts fixes health to on_track, at_risk, off_track, and no_update, and validators enforce this at the API layer. The columns themselves were unconstrained text, allowing direct writes or future importers to store arbitrary values.

Closes #412

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Added automated schema tests in packages/db/tests/schema/index.test.ts asserting:

  1. project_health_check and project_update_health_check check constraints exist in table configs.
  2. Attempting to persist a value outside PROJECT_HEALTHS on project is rejected with Postgres error code 23514 and constraint name project_health_check.
  3. Attempting to persist a value outside PROJECT_HEALTHS on project_update is rejected with Postgres error code 23514 and constraint name project_update_health_check.
  4. All allowed health values (on_track, at_risk, off_track, no_update) persist successfully.

Ran:

  • bun test packages/db/tests/schema/index.test.ts (all 28 tests pass)
  • bun run db:check-drift (clean)
  • bun run db:release (verified against local database)
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  • bun run check-bun-imports (clean)
  • bun run check-deps (clean)
  • bun run lint (clean)
  • bun run typecheck (clean across all packages)

Checklist

  • bun run verify is green, all four checks
  • Tests added or updated, and they fail without the change
  • No comments added to code, and no em-dash characters anywhere
  • No any, no non-null assertions
  • External input is parsed with a Zod schema from @orbit/shared
  • Authorization is enforced on the server through packages/shared/src/policy, not only in the UI
  • Docs updated if behaviour, configuration or setup changed
  • bun run db:release and bun run db:check-drift passed against the target database before this ships

Anything reviewers should know

The constraints are named project_health_check on project and project_update_health_check on project_update. Both columns remain not null, matching the existing schema definitions.

Greptile Summary

The PR adds database-level project health constraints, normalizes legacy values, and extends migration-release baselining to reconcile the constraints.

  • Defines matching checks for project and project_update in the Drizzle schema and migration.
  • Adds schema and migration tests for rejected values, accepted values, normalization, and baseline releases.
  • Extends baseline reconciliation for migration 0017, but its constraint lookup can mistake an unrelated same-named constraint for the required one.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because baseline releases can still record migration 0017 without installing a required health constraint when an unrelated same-named constraint exists.

The baseline repair correctly handles ordinary legacy databases, but its name-only pg_constraint query can suppress constraint creation on the intended table and leave unsupported health values insertable.

Files Needing Attention: packages/db/src/migration-release.ts

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
packages/db/src/migration-release.ts Adds migration 0017 baseline reconciliation, but scopes constraint-existence checks only by non-unique names and can skip required constraints.
packages/db/drizzle/0017_typical_freak.sql Normalizes unsupported health values before adding checks to both affected tables.
packages/db/src/schema/work.ts Defines project and project-update health checks from the shared allowed-value constant.
packages/db/tests/migrations/project-health.test.ts Covers direct and baseline migration paths on clean scratch databases but not unrelated same-name constraint collisions.
packages/db/tests/schema/index.test.ts Verifies constraint metadata and database behavior for allowed and unsupported health values.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[releaseDatabase] --> B[baselineLedger]
  B --> C{Migration 0017 pending?}
  C -- Yes --> D[Normalize legacy health values]
  D --> E{Any pg_constraint row has matching name?}
  E -- Yes --> F[Skip ALTER TABLE]
  E -- No --> G[Add health constraint]
  F --> H[Record migration as applied]
  G --> H
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### Issue 1
packages/db/src/migration-release.ts:133-140
**Constraint names collide across relations**

If a legacy database has `project_health_check` or `project_update_health_check` on another relation or in another schema, this name-only catalog lookup skips the required `ALTER TABLE`. The release then records migration 0017 while the affected project table still accepts unsupported health values.

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The database now normalizes invalid health values for projects and project updates, then enforces the shared health set with PostgreSQL check constraints. Migration reconciliation and schema tests cover the new behavior.

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Project health enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Health constraints and migration
packages/db/src/schema/work.ts, packages/db/drizzle/0017_typical_freak.sql, packages/db/drizzle/meta/_journal.json
The schema and migration define the allowed health values, normalize existing invalid values to no_update, and add check constraints.
Legacy migration reconciliation
packages/db/src/migration-release.ts
Migration 0017 is added to reconciliation handling. Baseline reconciliation normalizes invalid health values and conditionally adds both check constraints.
Health migration and schema tests
packages/db/tests/migrations/project-health.test.ts, packages/db/tests/schema/index.test.ts
Tests verify migration normalization, baseline normalization, constraint declarations, rejection of invalid values, and acceptance of every value in PROJECT_HEALTHS.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ee436

This change normalizes legacy health values and enforces allowed health states, but baseline reconciliation can leave a target table unconstrained if another table has the same constraint name. That could permit invalid health values after a baseline release, so the lookup must be scoped to its table before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MigrationRunner
  participant migration0017
  participant PostgreSQL
  MigrationRunner->>migration0017: Apply migration 0017
  migration0017->>PostgreSQL: Normalize invalid health values
  migration0017->>PostgreSQL: Add health CHECK constraints
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR addresses the linked issue by adding both health constraints, migration coverage, normalization, and schema tests. However, baseline reconciliation checks constraint names without scoping the l… Scope each pg_constraint lookup to the intended schema and table relation, and verify the constraint definition or relation before skipping ALTER TABLE. Add a regression test for same-name constraints on another relation or schema.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: enforcing project health constraints in the database.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the database constraints, migration, legacy-value normalization, tests, and validation results.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The migration, schema changes, baseline reconciliation, and tests are directly related to enforcing the project health set. No unrelated code changes are identified.
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The PR addresses the linked issue by adding both health constraints, migration coverage, normalization, and schema tests. However, baseline reconciliation checks constraint names without scoping the lookup to the intended table and schema, so an unrelated same-named constraint can prevent creation of a required constraint.

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Thanks for picking this up so quickly. The constraint names, the migration and the four tests are the right shape. Two changes before this can go in, one of them because the migration runs against the production database.

  1. Normalise existing rows before adding the constraint. ALTER TABLE ... ADD CONSTRAINT fails if any row already holds a value outside the set, and this database has rows that predate the validator (the Plane import wrote free text). Put an UPDATE project SET health = 'no_update' WHERE health NOT IN (...) and the same for project_update at the top of 0017_typical_freak.sql, before the two ALTER TABLE statements. Then the migration cannot fail on real data, and a test that inserts a bad value before applying the migration would prove it.

  2. Derive the set from PROJECT_HEALTHS. packages/db already depends on @orbit/shared (content.ts imports from it), so the schema can build the sql list from PROJECT_HEALTHS in packages/shared/src/constants/project.ts instead of repeating the four strings. The tests should read from the same constant. Otherwise the validator and the constraint can drift apart, which is the thing this PR exists to prevent. Regenerate the migration after the change so the snapshot matches.

Two things that are not on you: the migration has to be applied to the hosted database with bun run db:release before this merges, which I will do, and #383 also carries a 0017, which is my draft to rebase, not your problem.

I have approved the CI runs on this head. Push the two changes and ping me.

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In `@packages/db/drizzle/0017_typical_freak.sql`:
- Line 4: Add the missing project_update_project_idx index creation to this
migration, matching the index declared in the project_update schema definition
and using the project reference column. Keep the existing health constraint
unchanged.

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- Line 423: In the tests at packages/db/tests/schema/index.test.ts lines 423-423
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Status check: thanks for the follow-up push (d4bceb0), the row normalization ahead of the ALTER TABLE statements and deriving the health set from PROJECT_HEALTHS both look addressed based on the diff.

Both bots re-reviewed that commit and left three threads still open, worth resolving or discussing before this merges:

  1. Greptile (packages/db/src/migration-release.ts:22): a legacy database that matches the drift catalog could have baselineLedger record migration 0017 as applied after only the normalization statements run, since CHECK constraints aren't represented in the drift comparison, so the constraints themselves get skipped.
  2. CodeRabbit (0017_typical_freak.sql:4): the migration doesn't create the project_update_project_idx index that work.ts now declares.
  3. CodeRabbit (tests/schema/index.test.ts:423, 465): the constraint-name assertions nest one expect(...).toBe(...) inside another, so the outer matcher compares against undefined instead of the real value. Both tests would pass even if the constraint name were wrong.

Moving this to needs-review since the ball's back on our side now. Will take a full pass once these are addressed or discussed.


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Pushed both changes:

  1. Added the UPDATE normalization statements to the top of 0017_typical_freak.sql before adding the check constraints, reconciled the ledger in migration-release.ts, and added a migration test verifying pre-existing invalid values are normalized to no_update.
  2. Derived the check constraint sql set in packages/db/src/schema/work.ts and the schema invariant tests from PROJECT_HEALTHS in @orbit/shared.
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Both changes are in and they are right: the UPDATE runs before the constraints in the migration and in the release reconciliation path, the set is derived from PROJECT_HEALTHS in the schema and the tests, and the new migration test applies the real migration to a scratch database with a bad row and proves it is normalised. CI is green on unit tests. I ran the migration test locally and it passes.

One thing I hit locally that is not your problem, recorded as #439: drizzle-kit push does not add a check constraint to a table that already exists, so on a machine whose test databases predate this branch the two schema invariant tests fail while they pass on CI, which creates fresh databases. Nothing to change here.

Merging is held only until the migration has been applied to the hosted database with db:release, which I will do; then this goes in. Thanks for the fast turnaround.

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Database release recorded, per docs/database-releases.md.

Ran against the hosted database on 2026-09-08 from this head through the session-mode connection:

  • db:release: baselined, 0 migration(s) applied, 18 migration(s) recorded. The reconciliation path you added ran for 0017 on a database whose ledger predates the migration files.
  • db:check-drift: exit 0.
  • Verified directly afterwards: project_health_check and project_update_health_check both exist with the four-value set, zero rows outside the set remain on project or project_update, and the ledger's latest entry is 1788724695585.

I also brought the branch up to main; merging as soon as that run is green.

Comment on lines +133 to +140
if not exists (
select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_health_check'
) then
alter table project add constraint project_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
end if;
if not exists (
select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
) then

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P1 Constraint names collide across relations

If a legacy database has project_health_check or project_update_health_check on another relation or in another schema, this name-only catalog lookup skips the required ALTER TABLE. The release then records migration 0017 while the affected project table still accepts unsupported health values.

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**Constraint names collide across relations**

If a legacy database has `project_health_check` or `project_update_health_check` on another relation or in another schema, this name-only catalog lookup skips the required `ALTER TABLE`. The release then records migration 0017 while the affected project table still accepts unsupported health values.

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In `@packages/db/src/migration-release.ts`:
- Around line 134-141: Update the constraint-existence checks in the migration
for project_health_check and project_update_health_check to also filter
pg_constraint.conrelid to the corresponding target table using project and
project_update regclass references. Preserve the existing constraint names and
ALTER TABLE statements so each table receives its health constraint
independently.

In `@packages/db/tests/migrations/project-health.test.ts`:
- Around line 157-164: Extend the migration health validation test around the
existing invalid project insert to separately insert an invalid health value
into public.project_update and assert that the insert fails. Keep the existing
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select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_health_check'
) then
alter table project add constraint project_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
end if;
if not exists (
select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
) then
alter table project_update add constraint project_update_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Scope each constraint lookup to its target table.

pg_constraint.conname is not unique across tables. If another table already has either name, this block skips the matching ALTER TABLE. The target table then remains without its health constraint after the ledger records migration 1788724695585.

Filter each lookup by conrelid, such as 'project'::regclass and 'project_update'::regclass.

Proposed fix
- select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_health_check'
+ select 1
+ from pg_constraint
+ where conname = 'project_health_check'
+   and conrelid = 'project'::regclass
...
- select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
+ select 1
+ from pg_constraint
+ where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
+   and conrelid = 'project_update'::regclass
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select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_health_check'
) then
alter table project add constraint project_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
end if;
if not exists (
select 1 from pg_constraint where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
) then
alter table project_update add constraint project_update_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
select 1
from pg_constraint
where conname = 'project_health_check'
and conrelid = 'project'::regclass
) then
alter table project add constraint project_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
end if;
if not exists (
select 1
from pg_constraint
where conname = 'project_update_health_check'
and conrelid = 'project_update'::regclass
) then
alter table project_update add constraint project_update_health_check check (health in ('on_track', 'at_risk', 'off_track', 'no_update'));
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In `@packages/db/src/migration-release.ts` around lines 134 - 141, Update the
constraint-existence checks in the migration for project_health_check and
project_update_health_check to also filter pg_constraint.conrelid to the
corresponding target table using project and project_update regclass references.
Preserve the existing constraint names and ALTER TABLE statements so each table
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Comment on lines +157 to +164
await sql`
insert into public.project (id, organization_id, name, slug, health)
values ('proj-invalid-2', 'org-baseline', 'Invalid Project 2', 'invalid-project-2', 'invalid_health')
`;
} catch {
insertFailed = true;
}
expect(insertFailed).toBe(true);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert invalid project_update.health rejection during baselining.

This test only inserts an invalid value into public.project. If the project_update_health_check branch in packages/db/src/migration-release.ts Lines 138-142 is removed or wrong, this test still passes. Add a separate invalid public.project_update insert and assert that it fails.

As per coding guidelines, “A feature is not done until it has tests that would fail if the feature broke.”

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In `@packages/db/tests/migrations/project-health.test.ts` around lines 157 - 164,
Extend the migration health validation test around the existing invalid project
insert to separately insert an invalid health value into public.project_update
and assert that the insert fails. Keep the existing public.project rejection
assertion, and ensure the new assertion specifically exercises the
project_update_health_check branch.

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