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A literal column default has a literal type: string, number, boolean, or json. A codec descriptor declares the literal types its columns are compatible with, with read and write functions only where the codec JSON form differs from the literal value. PSL writes a literal as a plain scalar or as a tagged literal such as json`{}`; the sql tag writes a raw SQL expression instead. Codecs never see PSL syntax.
ADR 253 replaces the PSL half of ADR 184. The remove-dbgenerated project spec amends D9 and D10 to match, the plan runs slice B after slice A, and the slice B spec is marked superseded until it is rewritten.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR revises ADR 253 to define seven literal types and codec-declared compatibility. It updates default reading and printing pipelines, records an unresolved plain-number typing question, and updates ADR 184 and the architecture index. ChangesLiteral column defaults
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md:
- Line 146: Qualify the round-trip guarantee in the schema printing and reading
discussion: state that literal contract round-tripping applies only when the
selected write function can express the value, while the fallback preserves the
database expression as a sql function default rather than a literal default.
- Line 142: Update the literal-type printing rule in ADR 253 to define
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| 1. The target reads the database's default into the codec's JSON form. | ||
| 2. The printer takes the first literal type the column's codec declares and applies its write function, if any, to get the literal's value. |
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Define the priority for multiple compatible literal types.
ADR 253 permits multiple compatible literal types, but printing selects “the first” type without defining whether declaration order is normative or preserved during descriptor composition. Add an explicit priority rule or preserve declaration order so equivalent codecs produce deterministic PSL output.
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md
at line 142, Update the literal-type printing rule in ADR 253 to define
deterministic priority when multiple compatible literal types exist: either make
declaration order normative and preserve it through descriptor composition, or
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| 3. A `string`, `number`, or `boolean` literal prints as a plain scalar. Any other literal type prints as a tagged literal with the tag that writes it. | ||
| 4. When the codec declares no literal type, or its write function cannot express the value, the printer writes the database's expression as a `sql` tagged literal. Infer never drops a default. | ||
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| A printed schema therefore reads back to the same contract, because printing and reading pass through the same declaration. |
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Qualify the round-trip guarantee.
The fallback emits a sql default, which lowers to { kind: 'function', expression }. Literal defaults are stored as { kind: 'literal', value }. Therefore, the fallback cannot read back to the same contract representation. Limit this guarantee to successful literal writes, or define an explicit equivalence between these default kinds.
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- A printed schema therefore reads back to the same contract, because printing and reading pass through the same declaration.
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| A printed schema therefore reads back to the same contract, because printing and reading pass through the same declaration. | |
| A printed schema reads back to the same literal contract when the selected write function can express the value. Otherwise, `infer` preserves the database expression as a `sql` function default. |
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md
at line 146, Qualify the round-trip guarantee in the schema printing and reading
discussion: state that literal contract round-tripping applies only when the
selected write function can express the value, while the fallback preserves the
database expression as a sql function default rather than a literal default.
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The literal types are cut where the codecs stored JSON forms are cut: string, boolean, int, float, bigint, decimal, and json. Each produces the value shape the codecs that name it already accept in decodeJson, so a codec descriptor carries a list of names and no read or write functions, and the rules for whole numbers, decimal canonicalisation, and digit preservation are written once per literal type. Records as open, for discussion before implementation, that a plain number scalar names no literal type of its own: 42 is an int literal on an Int column, a bigint literal on a BigInt column, and a decimal literal on a Decimal column, decided by what the column codec declares. The numeric literal types are not implemented until that is settled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md:
- Line 63: Update the string row in the literal-types table to remove
“enum-backed text” or replace it with a clearly defined codec category that does
not conflict with the enum rule stating that enum codecs use bare member names.
Keep the documented handling for all other string-backed types unchanged.
- Line 101: Revise the no-declaration rule in the ADR so it applies only to
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Remove or qualify enum-backed text in the string row.
Line 156 says enum codecs name no literal types and use bare member names. If enum-backed text means those codecs, this row allows quoted string literals for enum defaults. If it means a different codec category, name that category so the table and enum rule remain consistent.
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md
at line 63, Update the string row in the literal-types table to remove
“enum-backed text” or replace it with a clearly defined codec category that does
not conflict with the enum rule stating that enum codecs use bare member names.
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Scope the no-declaration rule to text-source defaults.
This sentence says a codec without literalTypes can use raw SQL defaults only. Line 116 separately says the TypeScript contract builder can pass .default(value) using the codec's own type. As written, these rules conflict and can exclude TypeScript-authored literal defaults. State that the declaration controls text-source literals, while TypeScript-authored values remain checked by the codec type.
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In `@docs/architecture` docs/adrs/ADR 253 - Literal types for column defaults.md
at line 101, Revise the no-declaration rule in the ADR so it applies only to
literal defaults originating from text sources. Clarify that TypeScript-authored
values passed through the contract builder’s default API remain allowed when
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…aults A self-contained brief for an implementer with no prior context: what the repository terms mean, what ADR 253 decides, the full inventory of which literal type every codec names, the order of work, what to reuse from the withdrawn attempt, the documentation to update, and the definition of done. Section 1 marks the one blocked decision: a plain number scalar names no literal type of its own, so the numeric literal types are not implemented until Will has been asked which of the three recorded answers to take. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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…ts from (ADR 254) (prisma#30350) ## At a glance ```prisma model Account { id Int @id @default(autoincrement()) name String @default("anonymous") small SmallInt @default(100) count Int @default(100000) balance BigInt @default(100000000000000099) price Decimal @default(1.50) ratio Float @default(NaN) active Boolean @default(true) meta Jsonb @default(json`{ "plan": "free", "seats": 1 }`) scores Int[] @default([1, 2]) docs Jsonb[] @default([json`{}`, json`[]`]) expires DateTime @default(sql`(now() + '3 days'::interval)`) } ``` Every one of those emits, migrates onto a real database, verifies clean, reads back through the client with its decoded type, and `contract infer` prints them all back in the same forms. Before this branch, `100000000000000099` on a `BigInt` column silently became `100000000000000100`, `1.50` on a `Decimal` column lost its trailing zero, and a JSON default could only be written as a quoted string that `infer` could not print back. The rule behind it is one entity. A data type is a database type made first-class, and it declares what it takes: ```ts export const pgInt8: DataType = dataType('pg/int8', { casts: { [pgInt2.id]: asNumeralText, [pgInt4.id]: asNumeralText }, }); ``` A codec is one representation of a data type, and says which: ```ts export class PgInt8NumberDescriptor extends PostgresCodecDescriptor<void> { override readonly dataType = pgInt8.id; override readonly codecId = PG_INT8_NUMBER_CODEC_ID; … } ``` `42` on that column is a `pg/int2`, the narrowest Postgres integer type that holds it, and `pg/int8` casts from `pg/int2` by turning the number into digit text. `100000000000000099` is already a `pg/int8`, so no cast runs and no double ever sees it. On an `Int` column the same value is refused before anything is decoded: `pg/int4 has no cast from pg/int8; it casts from pg/int2`. ## Linked issue n/a. No Linear ticket exists for this project; this is the second of three PRs removing `dbgenerated`. Builds on prisma#30325 (the `sql` tagged literal). Design: [ADR 254 — Data types and casts](docs/architecture%20docs/adrs/ADR%20254%20-%20Data%20types%20and%20casts.md). This branch carries prisma#30334's ADR commits and amends the ADR to the implemented design, so prisma#30334 can close when this merges. The PR that deletes `dbgenerated` follows. ## Skill update n/a. No agent skill under `packages/0-shared/skills/` describes `@default` values. The author-facing surface is documented in [docs/reference/codec-authoring-guide.md](docs/reference/codec-authoring-guide.md), the schema surface in [packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/README.md](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/README.md), and the migration in [upgrade-instructions/pending/data-types-column-defaults/](upgrade-instructions/pending/data-types-column-defaults/). ## Decision Three things land together, and none works without the others. 1. **Data types.** A data type is a database type made first-class (`pg/int8`, `pg/jsonb`, `sqlite/bigint`, `pgvector/vector`), registered by the pack that owns it. It names the one canonical form the contract stores for its values and declares its **casts**: for each other type whose values it takes, a pure function from that type's canonical form to its own. Casts are declared by the receiving type, never the source, so there is at most one cast per pair and only the owner of a type decides what it takes. 2. **Every codec names one.** `CodecDescriptor.dataType` is required, so a codec that names no type does not compile and one whose type nobody registers is an assembly error. Several codecs may represent one type: `pg/int8@1` and `pg/int8number@1` both represent `pg/int8` and differ only in the value they produce in memory, and they now share that type's contract form. 3. **PSL support belongs to the type.** The pack that owns a type contributes an **authoring entry** for it: the syntax it is written in, how the text is read into the canonical form, and how a stored value is written back. The interpreter, the reader for the earlier Prisma schema language, `contract infer` and the language server all read those same entries, so a new type needs no change in any of them. ## How it fits together 1. **The framework learns what a data type is.** [`data-type.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/shared/data-type.ts) is the whole vocabulary: a branded `owner/name` id validated on the way in, `Cast`, `listCast` for a type whose single value holds several elements, and a lookup. It is family-blind; it names no database and no target. 2. **Descriptors name their type, and templates defer it.** `CodecDescriptor` gains one required member. A codec whose type depends on the target that adopts it (the five shared relational codecs, where `sql/int@1` is `pg/int4` on one target and `sqlite/integer` on another) extends `CodecDescriptorTemplateImpl` instead, and the target names the type when it adapts the template ([`codec-descriptor.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/shared/codec-descriptor.ts)). 3. **Assembly checks the stack.** [`control-stack.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/control/control-stack.ts) collects every pack's types and PSL support and refuses four things across packs: a codec whose type nobody registers, an entry or cast naming an unregistered type, two entries claiming one written form, and a cast from a type no contract source can write. 4. **Every pack declares.** Postgres and SQLite declare their types and casts ([`data-types.ts`](packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/data-types.ts)); the SQL family registers none and instead owns the arithmetic every target repeats: the numeral canonicaliser, the exponent-free writer, the integer-width classifier factory and the JSON reader ([`data-type-support.ts`](packages/2-sql/4-lanes/relational-core/src/ast/data-type-support.ts)). 5. **The readers and the printer switch over.** Reading a default is now: the entry for the written syntax gives a typed value; the column's type takes it directly or through its cast; the column's codec validates the canonical form; the canonical form is stored ([`data-type-default.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/src/data-type-default.ts)). Printing is the inverse, with a read-back check before anything is written ([`default-mapping.ts`](packages/2-sql/9-family/src/core/psl-contract-infer/default-mapping.ts)). ## Reviewer notes - **The largest commit is the deletion** (`refactor: the literal-types surface is gone`). It removes the framework's literal-types modules, `literalTypes` on every descriptor, and `ControlMutationDefaults.defaultLiteralTagRegistry` with its entry union. Worth spot-checking that the `sql` lowering entry now has exactly one home, in the authoring entries, and that the language server reads tag documentation from there. - **`contract emit` was broken in a way no package test could see.** The PSL provider was not passing the data type lookup through to the interpreter, so every cast missed and every numeric default was refused, while every package test passed, because each built its own interpreter input. `fixtures:check` caught it. The lookup is required on the interpreter input now, and a package test drives a numeric default through the provider seam the CLI uses; reverting the threading makes that test fail. - **The `count` aggregate's declared empty-result JSON changed from `0` to `'0'`** in both targets, and `pg/int8number@1`'s JSON projection became the decimal-text cast its sibling codec already used. The value a caller receives is still the number `0`; the pre-existing aggregate tests pin it. That follows from `pg/int8number@1` and `sqlite/bigintnumber@1` carrying digit text, which they must, because they are codecs of a type whose canonical form is digit text. Three test fixtures follow it. - **Assembly is strict, deliberately.** A codec naming an unregistered type fails the stack rather than degrading. Two composed-stack tests now register their fixture codecs' types; that is the intended cost. - **SQLite declares more types than it has storage classes.** `sqlite/integer` and `sqlite/bigint` are distinct although both store as INTEGER, and `sqlite/text`, `sqlite/datetime` and `sqlite/json` are distinct although all store as TEXT. The rule is that a target declares the types it distinguishes; the ADR now says so. - **SQLite has no boolean data type**, because it has no boolean codec. A plain `true` on SQLite is refused with `this target has no data type for a boolean value`. That is the decided behaviour, not an oversight. - **The fixture diff is empty**, which is not what the plan expected. The two number-valued codecs change contract form, but no committed contract has such a column carrying a literal default; every `contract.json` that mentions those codecs was checked. A user with one is covered by the upgrade instructions. - **What this slice does not do**, and an independent project owns: DDL names, aliases, parameters and their rendering moving onto data types; `nativeType` leaving the contract; type constructors naming a type and a codec; function arguments typed by a data type. The ADR describes all of it; the code implements the parts this slice needs. Where the ADR described the future state as present, the ADR commit corrects it and its status line says what shipped. ## Behavior changes & evidence - **A written number's type comes from its own size and precision, never from the column**, so nothing is rounded before its receiving type sees it. [`data-type-support.ts`](packages/2-sql/4-lanes/relational-core/src/ast/data-type-support.ts), [`data-type-entries.ts`](packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/data-type-entries.ts). Evidence: [`data-type-authoring.test.ts`](packages/3-targets/6-adapters/postgres/test/data-type-authoring.test.ts) pins every width boundary, `-0`, leading zeros and kept trailing zeros. - **A JSON default is a document**, written `` @default(json`{}`) `` and printed back the same way; a quoted string on a `Jsonb` column is refused, because `pg/jsonb` casts from `pg/json` and not from `pg/text`. [`data-type-default.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/src/data-type-default.ts). Evidence: [`interpreter.defaults.data-types.test.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/test/interpreter.defaults.data-types.test.ts), [`data-type-defaults.e2e.test.ts`](test/integration/test/cli-journeys/data-type-defaults.e2e.test.ts). - **A value the column's type cannot take is refused at the value, naming the cast it would need.** [`data-type-default.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/src/data-type-default.ts), [`defaults.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-prisma7/src/defaults.ts). Evidence: the eleven refusal cases in [`interpreter.defaults.data-types.test.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-psl/test/interpreter.defaults.data-types.test.ts) and the Prisma 7 fixtures in [`defaults.test.ts`](packages/2-sql/2-authoring/contract-prisma7/test/defaults.test.ts). - **`contract infer` prints a literal where it used to print `dbgenerated`**, and never prints one it cannot read back: it parses and casts the printed text and requires the stored value again. [`default-mapping.ts`](packages/2-sql/9-family/src/core/psl-contract-infer/default-mapping.ts), [`infer-default-codec.ts`](packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/psl-infer/infer-default-codec.ts). Evidence: [`print-psl.data-type-defaults.test.ts`](packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/test/psl-infer/print-psl/print-psl.data-type-defaults.test.ts), including the `'infinity'::timestamp` fallback. - **A codec reads its type's canonical form and nothing else.** [`codecs.ts`](packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/codecs.ts), [`sql-codec-helpers.ts`](packages/2-sql/4-lanes/relational-core/src/ast/sql-codec-helpers.ts). Evidence: the four `codec-strictness.test.ts` suites, which pin every shape each `decodeJson` used to coerce. - **An extension author declares a data type per codec or the stack refuses to assemble.** [`control-stack.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/control/control-stack.ts). Evidence: [`data-type-assembly.test.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/test/data-type-assembly.test.ts), [`data-type-descriptor.types.test-d.ts`](packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/test/data-type-descriptor.types.test-d.ts). ## Compatibility Breaking for schemas that wrote a JSON, decimal or non-finite float default as a quoted string, and for a `Jsonb` column given a written list. Breaking for extension authors: every codec descriptor must name a data type, `decodeJson` must stop accepting anything but the canonical form, and the tag registry is gone. Contracts holding an `pg/int8number@1` or `sqlite/bigintnumber@1` column **with a literal default** change form and need `contract emit` then `db sign`; no contract in this repo has one. All of it is written up for both audiences in [upgrade-instructions/pending/data-types-column-defaults/](upgrade-instructions/pending/data-types-column-defaults/). ## Testing performed - `pnpm build`: clean - `pnpm typecheck`: clean - `pnpm test:packages`: green - `pnpm test:integration`: green - `pnpm test:e2e`: green - `pnpm lint`, `pnpm lint:deps`, `pnpm lint:throws`, `pnpm lint:docs`: clean - `pnpm lint:framework-vocabulary`: 276 sites, threshold unchanged - `pnpm fixtures:check`: no contract change - `pnpm check:upgrade-coverage --mode pr`: clean ## Follow-ups - The TypeScript contract builder's `.default()` cannot take a `bigint` or a non-finite number, so PSL is the only surface for a `BigInt` default past 2^53 and for `Float @default(NaN)`. - Element-level spans for list diagnostics need the parser's argument types to carry spans; handed to the editor-tooling brief. - `useDevDatabase` in `test/integration` passes its timeout as `beforeAll`'s third argument, which vitest ignores, so journeys flake at 5 s on a loaded machine. - The Prisma 7 fixture updater writes golden JSON in a different format from the committed files, so those fixtures are edited by hand. ## Alternatives considered - **Codec methods that receive PSL text** (`encodePsl`/`decodePsl`, the sketch in ADR 184). Every codec becomes coupled to PSL's tokenizer and escaping, and there is no check before a decode fails. - **A central rule for which types convert into which.** Databases and extensions define their own types and conversions; the framework cannot know them. A type's own casts are the only honest declaration. - **Conversion inside the codec**, the codec listing what it takes and converting in `decodeJson`. Two codecs of one type repeat the same fact and the same conversion, and `decodeJson` ends up accepting shapes the codec never writes. - **A family-level vocabulary of written types** (`sql/i8`, `sql/json` and so on) that every target's types cast from. It invents types no database has, and most of its casts would return the value unchanged. - **The column decides a written number's type.** One syntax would not name one type, and a size error would surface inside a codec instead of as a missing cast. - **Storing `Infinity` when a written number is too large for a double.** The database refuses that conversion, and storing the word would make a written number indistinguishable from a written `Infinity`. ## Checklist - [x] All commits are signed off (`git commit -s`) per the [DCO](CONTRIBUTING.md#developer-certificate-of-origin-dco). - [x] I read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and the change is scoped to one logical concern. - [x] Tests are updated. - [ ] The PR title is in `TML-NNNN: <sentence-case title>` form. No Linear ticket exists for this project, so the title carries no prefix. - [x] The **Skill update** section above is filled in. ## Notes for the reviewer See "Reviewer notes" above. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added data-type-aware handling for column defaults, including casts, canonical values, lists, JSON, numeric values, temporal values, and vectors. - `contract infer` now emits more defaults as readable PSL literals instead of raw database expressions. - Added data-type support for PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, pgvector, PostGIS, and Arktype JSON. - Added public data-type export entry points for supported targets. - **Bug Fixes** - Improved validation and diagnostics for incompatible, malformed, out-of-range, and non-canonical defaults. - Improved parameterized codec handling for column-specific defaults. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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n/a — design record. Follows slice A of the remove-dbgenerated project (#30325, merged). Replaces the design in #30324, which is closed.
Summary
Proposes ADR 253: every literal column default has a literal type, and each codec descriptor names the literal types its columns are compatible with. There are seven, cut where the codecs' stored JSON forms are cut:
string,boolean,int,float,bigint,decimal, andjson. Each produces the value shape its codecs already accept indecodeJson, so the declaration is a list of names and no codec gains a method. PSL writes a literal as a plain scalar or as a tagged literal such asjson`{ "plan": "free" }`. Thesqltag writes a raw SQL expression and is not a literal type. Codecs never see PSL syntax.The ADR replaces the PSL half of ADR 184, which sketched
encodePslanddecodePslmethods on codecs. The project spec for removingdbgeneratedamends decisions D9 and D10 to match, and the slice B spec is marked superseded until it is rewritten against this ADR.Two sections deserve the most attention. "Open question: how a plain scalar picks its literal type" is unsettled and blocks implementation of the numeric literal types: a plain number scalar names no literal type of its own, so
42is anintliteral on anIntcolumn and adecimalliteral on aDecimalcolumn, decided by the column's codec. "Settled details" records which existing schemas become errors, namely a quoted JSON string on a JSON column and a quoted decimal on a Decimal column.Testing performed
pnpm lint:docsSkill update
n/a — design document only; no user-facing surface changes in this PR.
Checklist
git commit -s) per the DCO.TML-NNNN: <sentence-case title>form (no Linear ticket for this project).Notes for the reviewer
The codec descriptor field that holds the declaration is shown as a proposed shape; its name is settled when slice B is implemented. The project spec for removing
dbgeneratedcarries the same open question under decision D9.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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