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Summary

  • Shape the projects/postgres-sql-functions contribution for declaring Postgres SQL functions so storage defaults like DEFAULT app_nanoid(16) can be migrated without inventing undeclared objects.
  • Refuse raw/dbgenerated defaults that look like client ID generators (nanoid(), cuid(), …) with a clear diagnostic pointing authors at either client defaults or a declared DB function.
  • Add Postgres function contract entities (pgFunction / function IR) with CREATE OR REPLACE / DROP migration ops, planner wiring, and dependency ordering before column defaults.

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  1. docs: shape postgres SQL functions project for nanoid defaults
  2. feat(sql): refuse raw defaults that look like client ID generators
  3. feat(postgres): manage SQL functions as contract entities in migrations

Test plan

  • pnpm test for affected packages (contract, contract-ts, 9-family, postgres) on Node ≥24
  • Confirm diagnostic fires for @default(dbgenerated(nanoid(16))) / equivalent TS raw defaults
  • Confirm pgFunction round-trips authoring → planner → CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION / DROP FUNCTION
  • Confirm function create is ordered before column defaults that reference it

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  • New Features

    • Added support for declaring, managing, and migrating PostgreSQL functions, including creation and removal.
    • Added configuration for function signatures, return types, bodies, languages, and volatility.
    • Added validation for function definitions and clearer handling of unsupported function changes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Raw SQL defaults resembling Prisma client-side generators, such as nanoid() or uuid(), are now rejected with guidance for valid alternatives.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance explaining client-side versus database defaults and PostgreSQL function usage.

Rhae-Shane and others added 3 commits September 20, 2026 23:54
Capture the client vs DB default plane mismatch, issue draft, and sliced plan so maintainers can direction-fit before larger follow-ups.

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Bare nanoid/uuid/cuid/ulid calls in sql`...` or dbgenerated() almost always mean the Prisma client generator, not a Postgres function. Fail authoring with a fix hint instead of emitting DEFAULT that breaks migrate.

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Add PostgresFunction authoring (PSL + pgFunction), schema-IR, and CREATE/DROP planning in the dep/dropType buckets so a declared function exists before column defaults that call it.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change rejects raw defaults that resemble client-side generators and adds managed PostgreSQL function entities. PostgreSQL authoring, schema representation, migration planning, SQL operations, control policies, tests, and documentation cover these behaviors.

Changes

Client generator validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Client generator default validation
docs/reference/..., packages/1-framework/..., packages/2-sql/..., packages/3-targets/6-adapters/...
Raw defaults matching nanoid, uuid, cuid, or ulid calls now produce dedicated diagnostics. Detection covers quoted, qualified, and whitespace variants. Documentation and tests cover the behavior.

PostgreSQL function support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Function authoring and schema representation
packages/3-extensions/postgres/..., packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/...
The PostgreSQL contract API adds pgFunction. Authoring validates function blocks and lowers them into function entities. Schema and schema-IR types store function definitions and reject duplicate physical names.
Function migration planning and execution
packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/src/core/migrations/..., packages/3-targets/3-targets/postgres/test/...
Migration planning creates and drops PostgreSQL functions. Function identity normalization removes defaults and modes while preserving input names and types. Body and signature changes remain unsupported. Control-policy and migration operation behavior is tested.

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  participant Authoring
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  participant IssuePlanner
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  Authoring->>Contract: lower function definition
  Contract->>IssuePlanner: provide function schema node
  IssuePlanner->>PostgresMigration: createFunction or dropFunction
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… policy

Function schema nodes were missing from postgresNodeStorageCoordinate, so
ownership and control-policy partitions could not treat them as first-class
entities. Wire the coordinate and add managed/external/tolerated/observed
DROP coverage plus sibling-ownership selectivity.

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Align DDL with the planner: body/signature drift is a conflict (drop and
recreate), so migrate must not emit CREATE OR REPLACE and imply replace works.

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Document name-only identity (overloads unsupported), bucket-only deps for
simple app-owned helpers, opaque unchecked bodies, create/drop-only updates,
and that app_nanoid naming is temporary — not a permanent ban on DB nanoid.

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In `@packages/2-sql/1-core/contract/src/default-sql-body.ts`:
- Line 4: Update CLIENT_GENERATOR_CALL to recognize quoted generator names and
optional whitespace around schema qualification and the dot, while preserving
existing unquoted forms. Ensure authoring and lowering paths classify PostgreSQL
and SQLite defaults such as quoted nanoid calls as client-generator functions,
and add tests covering these spellings and emitted defaults.

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- Line 76: Update DropFunctionCall and its SQL generation so DROP FUNCTION uses
only input argument types, excluding argument names, modes, and DEFAULT clauses,
rather than reusing the CREATE signature. Preserve the full declaration for
CREATE while providing a separate normalized identity signature to generate
valid removal SQL.

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- Around line 221-247: Update createFunction and dropFunction to pass
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- Line 73: Update the test setups using buildPostgresPlanDiff and planIssues to
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Normalize DROP FUNCTION to input types only, wire controlAdapterFor for
create/dropFunction, broaden CLIENT_GENERATOR_CALL for quoted/whitespace
forms, and align function planner tests with current planner APIs.

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In `@packages/2-sql/1-core/contract/src/default-sql-body.ts`:
- Line 9: Update the generator-default regex so the i flag applies only to bare
identifiers, while quoted generator names match exact lowercase casing; ensure
quoted "NANOID"(16) is rejected and returns undefined in the default parsing
flow.

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- Line 98: Update the DEFAULT detection condition in the argument parsing logic
to require a left token boundary as well as the existing right boundary, so
DEFAULT is recognized only at the start or after whitespace and identifiers such
as mydefault are not truncated.
- Around line 47-49: Update splitTopLevelArgs to recognize PostgreSQL
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- Line 153: In the argument-processing logic, replace the stripLeadingArgName
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Require exact lowercase for quoted client-generator names, skip dollar-quoted
DEFAULT values when splitting args, keep full type expressions after stripping
defaults/modes, and avoid matching DEFAULT inside identifiers.

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In `@packages/2-sql/1-core/contract/src/default-sql-body.ts`:
- Around line 12-14: Update CLIENT_GENERATOR_QUOTED and CLIENT_GENERATOR_BARE to
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Accept doubled quotes in schema-qualified client-generator lookalikes, reject
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as escapes inside double-quoted function argument names.

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Use a Unicode-aware identifier predicate for dollar-quote and DEFAULT
token boundaries so names like e-acute$tag$ or e-acuteDEFAULT are not misparsed.

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Thanks for this, @Rhae-Shane. Here's a review of both parts, so you know why we're not merging it and what a future version would need.

Refusing raw defaults that look like client generators

We won't take this part.

  • dbgenerated(...) no longer exists in Prisma 8. #30380 removed it, along with lowerDbgenerated, which this PR edits. Raw SQL defaults are now written @default(sql`...`).
  • The body of a sql default is opaque on purpose. ADR 129 refuses only now() and autoincrement(), because those two strings have a special meaning to Prisma inside the contract. Every other body passes through unchanged, and a test checks exactly that with sql`uuid()`. This PR deletes that case.
  • nanoid is a real name for a database function. The common Postgres nanoid implementation is called nanoid, so refusing sql`nanoid(16)` would break working schemas. @default(nanoid(16)) already means the client-side generator, and sql`...` already means "this is database SQL".

Postgres functions as contract entities

We're interested in this idea, and wiring it in alongside native enums is the right approach: the entity kind, the schema IR node, the storage coordinate, the control policy and the create and drop operations. But it isn't ready to build on as it stands:

  1. Functions are never read back from the database. Introspection builds each namespace from tables and native enums only, and this PR doesn't change that. db init and db update introspect the live database and plan from the difference, so a declared function always looks missing. The first run creates it. The next run issues CREATE FUNCTION again and fails, because the function already exists. Every test in the PR is a unit test, so nothing runs the generated SQL against a database.
  2. Functions are compared as raw text. Once functions are read back, Postgres prints signatures and return types in its own form: size int DEFAULT 16 comes back as size integer DEFAULT 16. Comparing text would then report differences that aren't there. This needs either typed parameters or normalization. For raw defaults, ADR 129 normalizes by running both sides through the target's parser.
  3. The volatility default is wrong. Postgres defaults to VOLATILE, but this defaults to STABLE. A nanoid function returns a different value on every call, so it must be VOLATILE.
  4. DROP FUNCTION depends on a hand-written argument-list parser. It's only needed because the signature is stored as a string. Once introspection exists, the database reports a function's identity directly with pg_get_function_identity_arguments.
  5. A function can't be changed. Editing the body is refused with "drop and recreate". A function that a column default uses can't be dropped until the default is removed, so every edit takes two migrations.
  6. Writing a body in PSL is awkward. The body is a double-quoted string, so multi-line PL/pgSQL needs escaped newlines.
  7. Some code was left over from the native enum implementation. pgFunction() validation raises CONTRACT.ENUM_INVALID, the PSL block's @@map reuses nativeEnumMapAttribute, and the operations label their target as a type.

There are also design questions we need to settle before anyone implements this. How is a function identified, including overloads? How are changes migrated? How are functions ordered against the tables, types and extensions they depend on? For example, Postgres checks a LANGUAGE sql function's body when the function is created. Creating functions before tables means such a function can't reference a table created in the same migration.

Until then, a hand-written migration can create the function with a rawSql operation placed before the table that uses it. See this migration, which does the same for an extension.

For next time

  • CONTRIBUTING.md asks for an issue before substantive work. You'd already drafted one in projects/postgres-sql-functions/github-issue.md. Filing it first would have let us point out the dbgenerated removal and the open design questions before you wrote the code.
  • Four commits (c234465, 53a6423, 31aa484, bf1850f) are missing the DCO Signed-off-by: line.

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wmadden commented Sep 24, 2026

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Hi @Rhae-Shane, thanks for taking the time on this, we really appreciate it! However I'm going to close this PR because it isn't the right fix for this problem.

dbgenerated(...) is Prisma 7 syntax, and I recently removed it in favor of a clearer way to write SQL expressions: @default(sql`...`). You can see the change in #30380. We also don't want to refuse sql`nanoid(16)`. A lot of people have a real database function called nanoid, and @default(nanoid(16)) already means the client-side generator.

Regarding function entities, I love that you took this on, and the way you wired it in alongside native enums is a good starting point. Before it can go into the public API we need to settle a few things: how functions are identified (including overloads), how changes to them are migrated, how we read them back from the database, and dependency ordering. If you'd like to help work that out, come find me on Discord: https://discord.gg/J9xxuQQQq

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