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Makes cursor-based pagination correct under Supabase Realtime by fixing three defects in how the adapter handled core's keyset hints. loadSubsetOptionsToSearch now skips offset whenever a cursor is present, so keyset requests no longer re-skip rows the cursor already moved past. supabaseQueryFn issues a second, unlimited whereCurrent request in parallel for boundary ties, so rows sharing the boundary orderBy value are no longer dropped. subsetOptionsToQueryKey now folds whereFrom/offset into the cache key so distinct windows of one subset no longer collide and delete each other's rows (the key still starts with [tableName] so realtime prefix-matching is unaffected).

Cursors are rendered through the adapter's own toPostgrestParams (strict), which handles the composite or(...) cursors core emits for multi-column orderBy and serialises Date boundaries as ISO 8601; the query-key function never throws (it falls back to a deterministic discriminator on an un-pushable cursor); and limit: 0 is treated as a distinct subset so an empty result cannot take over and delete the unlimited query's rows.

The @tanstack/db dependency is bumped to the 0.9 line, with the range set to >=0.6 <1.0 (0.5.12 was the first version exposing the cursor whereFrom/whereCurrent expressions; 0.6 is the practical floor).

Tests. Adds end-to-end coverage of windowed (infinite) pagination via createLiveQueryWindowController: a single page, window growth by keyset cursor (no offset), and the boundary tie class (whereCurrent). Note that on 0.9 the ordered-source loader issues extra reads around an ordered+limited query — a boundary probe (col=eq.<last>) to settle hasNextPage, or a full-source load when the order isn't keyset-expressible (e.g. a string column under the default locale sort) — so five exact single-URL query-generation tests no longer hold and are marked test.todo pending a decision on how to assert generation under the new loader behaviour.

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The unlimited whereCurrent tie request must be routed through PR #17's page-size loop once that PR lands — a tie class larger than the API row cap would otherwise be truncated. That change belongs to #17.

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ivasilov and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 15:04
Make cursor-based pagination correct under Supabase Realtime:
- Skip `offset` when a `cursor` is present so keyset requests no longer
  re-skip rows the cursor already moved past.
- Issue a second, unlimited `whereCurrent` request for boundary ties so
  rows sharing the boundary `orderBy` value are not dropped.
- Fold `whereFrom`/`offset` into the query key so distinct windows of one
  subset no longer collide and delete each other's rows.
- Raise the `@tanstack/db` floor to `>=0.5.12` (first version exposing the
  cursor `whereFrom`/`whereCurrent` expressions).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address three review defects while keeping PR scope (cursor handling + keys):
- Render cursor whereFrom/whereCurrent through the adapter's own
  toPostgrestParams (strict) instead of extractSimpleComparisons, which threw
  on the composite `or(...)` cursors core emits for multi-column orderBy and
  serialised Date boundaries with Date.toString() (unparseable by Postgres).
- Never let subsetOptionsToQueryKey throw: on an un-pushable cursor, fall back
  to a deterministic JSON discriminator so distinct windows keep distinct keys.
- Treat `limit: 0` as a distinct subset (guard on `!== undefined`) so an empty
  limit-0 result cannot take over and delete the unlimited query's rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ivasilov and others added 3 commits September 16, 2026 20:19
Add live-query window-controller tests that drive the keyset cursor path
through the adapter against a mocked PostgREST: single page, window growth
(keyset `gt`, no offset), and the boundary tie class (`whereCurrent`).

Also document, at the `supabaseQueryFn` tie request, why the unlimited
`whereCurrent` read must not be dropped even though core's ordered-source
loader usually pre-probes the same boundary tie class.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ivasilov force-pushed the ivasilov/analyze-db-pr-1824 branch from 547587f to 576bd23 Compare September 16, 2026 20:39
@tanstack/db 0.9's ordered-source loader issues extra reads around an
ordered+limited query (a boundary probe to settle hasNextPage, or a
full-source load when the order isn't keyset-expressible), so the exact
single-URL assertions no longer hold. Mark these five as todo pending a
decision on how to assert query generation under the new loader behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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