docs(postgres): a representative row must not be picked by Min(name) (#59135)

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Mihir Kandoi
2026-09-17 14:10:46 +05:30
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@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ audit of these fixes found four recurring mistakes:
the arbitrary-pick preservation the wrap is usually justified as. Confirmed on CI; see #56241.
Note a local macOS PostgreSQL gives a **false all-clear** — its collation happens to agree with
MariaDB on case. Fix: take a representative row rather than sorting text.
**Picking that row is the hard part.** `Min(name)` is still a text sort: `autoname="hash"` is
not reliably lower case, because `_get_timestamp_prefix()` prepends `get_trace_id()[-1:]`
un-lowered and a client-supplied `X-Frappe-Request-Id` can put an upper case `A-F` there. A
non-text key (`Min(idx)`) works only where it is **unique within the group** and the join-back
carries the **full group key** — a date is usually neither, and joining on a duplicated value
turns one group into several rows (§3). Otherwise select the row in Python, sorting with
`key=str.casefold` so the order matches MariaDB's collation without depending on the database's.
- **Wrong bound** — where the value has a semantic, pick the bound deliberately:
`Min(schedule_date)` for a "required by", `Min(idx)` for first-line ordering, a qty-weighted
average for a rate. A blind `Max` can understate urgency or overstate a figure.