Add schema definitions and migrations for ClickHouse

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What

Opt-in schema-as-code and migrations for ClickHouse, in three new entry points. The query builder is unchanged, and the root barrel exports nothing new.

Entry	Runs where	What
./schema	anywhere, pure	defineTable, materializedView, DDL rendering, snapshots, the diff
./kit + effect-orm bin	Node or Bun	generate, check
./migrate	anywhere Effect runs	run, status, verify through a MigrationDriver

• defineTable returns a regular Table that also carries its DDL. materializedView bodies are DSL queries, and an output column the target table lacks is a type error.
• generate is offline, like drizzle-kit:
  • It diffs the schema modules against the newest snapshot and writes migrations/<timestamp>_<name>/{migration.json, snapshot.json}.
  • Dropping a table or column needs confirmation: a prompt in a terminal, otherwise exit 2 until --hints is passed.
  • Changes ALTER cannot make (engine, sorting, partition or primary key, column type) are reported by name, and nothing is written.
• check validates the snapshot chain. Branches from separate PRs merge when they touch different tables and conflict when they change the same one.
• run journals each statement after it finishes and records the migration last. ClickHouse has no transactions, so a failed run resumes at the failed statement. Applied migrations have their hash checked (an error with strict). A lease row stops concurrent runs, best effort.
• verify compares the live database with the snapshot of the last applied migration. Both sides are normalized by the server (formatQuery, defaultValueOfTypeName).

Why its own runner

Effect's ClickhouseMigrator (@effect/sql-clickhouse 4.0.0) fails on ClickHouse 26.8 before running any migration, because its ledger CREATE TABLE is a syntax error there. It also inserts ledger rows before running each migration and relies on a transaction ClickHouse does not have.

Design choices worth reviewing

• Generated migrations are typed ops (migration.json), not SQL. They are rendered when they run, so ON CLUSTER and Replicated* engines come from the deployment, not the committed file. Hand-written migrations (--custom) are migration.sql with drizzle-kit's --> statement-breakpoint.
• The runner takes a MigrationDriver instead of SqlClient directly. ClickHouse DDL must go through the client's asCommand; fromSqlClient(sql, { command: sql.asCommand }) is the adapter.
• DDL-time mistakes fail when the module loads, as SchemaDefinitionDefect: a MergeTree without orderBy, a non-identifier name, or a view writing to a table outside the schema.

Not in this PR

• Renames, column type changes, table rebuilds, windowed backfills.
• pull, push and --init, .ts migrations, Postgres.
• verify does not compare TTL, codecs, settings or comments yet.

design/migrations.md has the plan, phase 0 findings and the remaining phases.

Testing

• bun run build, bun run typecheck and bun run test: 380 tests, doc citations, export catalog, and 17 doc examples typechecked, including the two new ones.
• bun scripts/check-package.ts: the packed tarball imports ./schema, ./migrate and ./kit under Node and runs effect-orm --help.
• Live suite (tests/) against ClickHouse 26.8.2.7: 133 passed. tests/migrate.clickhouse.test.ts also passes on 26.2.19.43. It covers:
  • apply, verify clean, and a no-op rerun;
  • an additive change with a recreated view, checked with real inserts;
  • resume after a failed statement;
  • hash mismatch under strict;
  • the lease;
  • drift detection.
• A manual end-to-end run of the built bin against live ClickHouse, through three migrations: create; add a column and an index and recreate a view; drop a column, which exited 2 until hints were passed. A hand-added column then made verify exit 3.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added opt-in ClickHouse schema definitions for tables and materialized views, with SQL generation and schema snapshots.
  • Added offline migration generation and consistency checks, including data-loss confirmations and reporting of unsupported changes.
  • Added CLI commands to generate, apply, inspect, and verify migrations. Migration runs can resume completed steps, detect changed migrations, and report schema drift.
  • Added public entry points and guides for schema, migration, and CLI workflows.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for schema generation, migration workflows, package entry points, and live ClickHouse integration scenarios.

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Walkthrough

This change adds opt-in ClickHouse schema definitions, snapshots, and migration diffs. It adds migration generation and graph checks, plus database operations to run, track, and verify migrations. It also adds CLI and package entry points, documentation, and tests.

Changes

ClickHouse schema and migrations

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Schema definitions, snapshots, and diffs src/schema/*, src/schema.ts	Adds typed table and materialized-view definitions, DDL rendering, deterministic hashed snapshots, and schema diffs that emit migration operations, identify missing data-loss hints, and report unsupported changes.
Migration graph and generation src/kit/graph.ts, src/kit/generate.ts, src/kit/graph.test.ts, src/kit/kit.test.ts	Adds snapshot-chain and branch-conflict analysis, offline migration generation and checks, and tests for generation, data-loss hints, and snapshot validation.
Migration loading and database runtime src/migrate/*, src/migrate.ts, tests/migrate.clickhouse.test.ts	Adds migration loading and ordering, a MigrationDriver, append-only migration and step journals, lease records, migration execution and status, and snapshot-based drift verification. Tests cover application, resumption, hash mismatches, lease conflicts, and drift.
CLI, package exports, and supporting documentation src/kit/cli.ts, src/kit/bin.ts, src/kit.ts, package.json, tsdown.config.ts, scripts/check-package.ts, tests/package-consumer.mts, docs/*, design/migrations.md, CHANGELOG.md	Adds CLI commands for generation, checks, migration, status, and verification. Adds build and package entry points for schema, migration, and kit APIs, plus an effect-orm executable. Adds usage and design documentation and checks the installed package entry points and CLI.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant run
  participant MigrationDriver
  participant ClickHouse
  run->>MigrationDriver: Read ledger and completed-step records
  MigrationDriver->>ClickHouse: Query ledger tables
  ClickHouse-->>MigrationDriver: Return ledger rows
  run->>MigrationDriver: Execute pending migration statements
  MigrationDriver->>ClickHouse: Send migration statements
  ClickHouse-->>MigrationDriver: Return execution results
  run->>MigrationDriver: Record completed steps and applied migration

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a01db

A failed journal write can cause a successful migration statement to run again, potentially duplicating data. Resolve that retry behavior before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a01db

The new capabilities are opt-in and use explicitly supplied database access. However, interrupted execution can replay completed statements, long-running statements can outlive their lease, and verification can return success without checking the database after a ledger read failure. These affect migration containment and deployment confidence.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Statement execution and completion journaling are separate operations. If execution succeeds but the response or journal write fails, the next run treats the statement as unfinished and executes it again. Custom SQL need not be idempotent, so recovery can repeat data changes or become blocked by already-applied DDL. Completed-step hash checks protect recorded steps, not this uncertain-completion window.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The lease is renewed only after a statement finishes. A statement exceeding leaseSeconds, which defaults to 600, can continue after another runner sees no live lease and acquires ownership. The original runner does not revalidate ownership before subsequent statements. This permits overlapping privileged schema changes beyond the documented simultaneous-start race. External deployment serialization is the strongest existing countermeasure.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: Verification suppresses applied-ledger read errors, returns an empty drift result when no baseline is found, and the CLI exits zero for that result. A deployment using the exit status as a drift gate can therefore pass without any live-schema comparison after a connection or permission failure. The textual output distinguishes “no baseline” from “no drift,” but the exit status does not.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Exposure is limited to consumers that adopt the new entry points or invoke the CLI, but database impact is bounded by the supplied driver's privileges rather than a tenant or table allowlist. Arbitrary custom SQL and configured cluster DDL can extend impact beyond individual schema entities.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If untrusted contributors can replace imported config/schema modules or migration SQL before a privileged invocation, their content can run with the CLI process or database driver's authority. The inspected paths do not establish that such an attacker can control these inputs in an actual deployment, so this is a conditional trust path, not a verified vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Database authority must be explicitly supplied, and the standard adapter preserves a shared client for reads and writes. Completed-step SQL hashes and optional strict applied-migration hash checks detect changed migration content, but do not authenticate its author or make execution atomic.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Verification is a bounded schema comparison, not a complete security-configuration check: its documented scope excludes TTL, codecs, settings, and comments. Separately, an unreadable applied ledger can produce an unchecked result with a successful CLI exit status.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Represent uncertain statement completion as a reconciliation state rather than assuming replay is safe; require idempotency or explicit operator resolution for custom SQL after ambiguous failures.
• proposed — Require external serialization for hard exclusion, or provide lease renewal during execution and ownership-loss handling. Preserve ledger read failures and expose an unchecked verification state that cannot silently pass a deployment gate.

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