merge dev to main (v3.9.7)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed nested relation updates involving many-to-many relationships when using typed arguments.
  • Improved query results when omitting fields, preserving fields needed for relation includes, ordering, and pagination.
  • Improved PostgreSQL filtering for UUID and text-like columns, including malformed UUID values.
  • Fixed policy filters for collection predicates, relation comparisons, and inherited model fields.
• Release
  • Updated the package suite to version 3.9.7.

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Walkthrough

The patch updates package versions to 3.9.7, changes ORM relation-update typing and select behavior, and updates policy SQL transformations and PostgreSQL comparisons. It adds regression tests for these changes.

Changes

ORM and policy release fixes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Typed relation updates packages/orm/src/client/crud-types.ts, tests/regression/test/issue-2778/*	ToManyRelationUpdateInput gains invariant variance annotations. The regression test calls upsert and update with typed arguments and checks nested relation creates.
Omission and relation selection packages/orm/src/client/crud/dialects/base-dialect.ts, tests/regression/test/issue-2830.test.ts	Select-all subqueries can retain fields needed for relation joins and ordering while the outer projection applies omission. Tests cover nested includes, ordering, pagination, schema-level omission, and delegate descendants.
Policy predicates and PostgreSQL comparisons packages/plugins/policy/src/expression-transformer.ts, packages/orm/src/client/crud/dialects/postgresql.ts, tests/regression/test/issue-2851.test.ts	SQL-backed collection predicates use EXISTS or NOT EXISTS. Eligible relation comparisons use owning foreign keys, and delegate-inherited fields resolve through base tables. PostgreSQL comparisons add direct handling for text-like columns and UUID values. Tests cover generated SQL and query results.
Package version updates package.json, packages/**/package.json, samples/**/package.json, tests/**/package.json	Package versions change from 3.9.6 to 3.9.7.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e7ba2

Policies that compare citext columns with auth values may now match values that differ only by letter case. The new typing regression test also would not catch the compiler error it is meant to prevent. Both issues have small fixes, and the release is otherwise mergeable.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e7ba2

The update changes how access rules are evaluated. In certain identity and nullable-field configurations, comparisons may match records that previously did not match. Existing access checks remain active, but these configuration-dependent cases need confirmation.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: The new malformed-UUID equality branch returns constant false without preserving UNKNOWN for a null column. A surrounding NOT therefore becomes true for null-owned rows, whereas the prior cast-and-comparison path would remain UNKNOWN and exclude them. Policy translation explicitly constructs NOT of ID equality for relation inequality, so the direct inequality branch's IS NOT NULL safeguard does not cover every negated comparison. Rules using these forms with non-UUID authentication values may admit previously excluded rows; effective exposure remains configuration-dependent and unvalidated against generated SQL.
• Medium · security · inferred: Native comparison of a citext column with a bound authentication value uses case-insensitive equality instead of the prior mismatch path's text equality. If distinct case-sensitive authentication IDs are compared with such an ownership column, the new path can match another principal's rows within the same case-insensitive equivalence class. Choosing citext may intentionally express that equivalence, but the inspected path does not establish that the authentication identity domain shares it.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The comparison concerns affect consumers deploying the changed PostgreSQL policy path with the relevant field and identity configurations. Potential disclosure is bounded to rows newly satisfying those rules, such as null-owned rows or ownership values sharing a case-insensitive identity class. The evidence does not establish exposure of every tenant, database, or deployment.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A caller with an application-accepted non-UUID identity may obtain additional null-owned rows under a negated UUID-equality rule. Separately, a caller whose legitimate case-sensitive identity collides under citext equality may match another identity's ownership value. These are inferred semantic attack paths, not runtime-verified findings or evidence that the caller controls the authentication-setting API.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Ordinary policy comparisons divert explicit null operands to null-check handling before invoking the dialect comparator. Direct malformed UUID inequality also checks column non-nullness. These controls limit the concern but do not preserve nullable-column semantics when malformed equality is subsequently negated.
• observed — The inspected read path retains policy conjunction, and ordinary result projections retain omission checks. Consequently, the identified concerns concern changed comparison meaning rather than removal of the policy enforcement layer or demonstrated disclosure from retaining internal join fields.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected regression source asserts ownership filtering, malformed UUID equality rejection, null exclusion for direct inequality, and accepted UUID casing and dash normalization. These assertions provide counterevidence for ordinary comparison paths, but were not executed during this review and do not establish the negated-equality or citext identity contracts.

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Review comments at @packages/orm/src/client/crud/dialects/postgresql.ts:
- Around line 564-565: Remove citext from the textLikeSqlTypes set so @db.Citext
value comparisons continue using the existing cast path and preserve their prior
case-sensitive behavior; leave the other set members unchanged.

Review comments at @tests/regression/test/issue-2778/regression.test.ts:
- Line 15: The regression test currently uses an untyped client, so its upsert
and update calls do not check argument types; give `db` a concrete client type
parameterized by the test schema before those calls, and preserve the runtime
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• packages/orm/src/client/crud-types.ts
• packages/orm/src/client/crud/dialects/base-dialect.ts
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• tests/regression/test/issue-2778/schema.zmodel
• tests/regression/test/issue-2830.test.ts
• tests/regression/test/issue-2851.test.ts
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