# Gripes about Datagripe It has opinions about your schema. These are the ones it has about itself. Rendered from `roadmap.md` in the repository. Nothing here is a promise, and declined items stay on the list because the reason something was refused is the useful part. ## About itself - **[being written]** `engine · server-side-gripes` — Gripes stop at the query text. Nothing yet complains about how a query actually turned out, only about how it was written. - **[being written]** `config · settings-server-side` — Project class and attitude live in your browser's localStorage. Two machines, two personalities, and a per-project setting the server has never heard of. - **[accepted]** `object-view · danger-zone-inert` — The danger zone states real consequences and then does nothing. Truncate and drop are decoration until project class leaves the browser. - **[accepted]** `brand · placeholder-icon` — The app icon is a scowling cylinder drawn by hand. The mascot is real; the flat version that can animate in-app is not drawn. - **[accepted]** `ui · browser-chrome-in-an-app` — Right-click anywhere it has nothing to say and the browser's own menu arrives, offering to reload the frame and save the image. Drag past the edge of a tree and the whole page selects, prose and all. Both are the moment it stops feeling like an application. - **[accepted]** `ui · one-of-each-control` — Inputs, selects and now buttons are one component, but only the sidebar goes through the button: the forms, the status bar and the object view still hand-roll theirs, and toggles and segmented controls have no component at all. Every variation is a fix that has to be made twice, and eventually is made once. - **[accepted]** `rules · catalogue-too-thin` — Eighteen rules, and seven of them are about grants. A rules page wants about thirty before it stops looking like a sample. - **[accepted]** `docs · counts-in-prose` — The website no longer states a count it cannot derive. The specs still do, in prose, and prose is not checked by anything. - **[unscheduled]** `engine · explain-aware-gripes` — Nothing reads an execution plan. The worst queries in the database still look completely fine in text. - **[unscheduled]** `rules · migration-lint` — Migrations are not linted. The most dangerous SQL anyone writes gets the least attention from the thing that exists to complain about SQL. - **[unscheduled]** `schema · diff-view` — Two databases cannot be compared. You are diffing schemas in a text editor like it is 2009. - **[unscheduled]** `adapters · mssql` — Four engines, and none of them is the one your employer makes you use. - **[unscheduled]** `adapters · sqlite-table-rebuild` — SQLite cannot change a column's type, nullability or default here, because that needs the twelve-step table rebuild and nobody has written it. - **[unscheduled]** `object-view · structure-editing` — Columns can be edited. Indexes, constraints and triggers cannot. The preview-then-apply shape is proven; the rest is just dialect SQL nobody has typed. - **[unscheduled]** `domains · migration-generation` — The domain export is a structure snapshot, not an ordered rebuild. It will not tell you how to get from the old schema to this one. - **[unscheduled]** `execution · arrow-transport` — Results travel as JSON batches. Arrow would be faster and nobody has profiled the JSON to prove it is the problem. - **[unscheduled]** `connections · ssh-tunnels` — No SSH tunnels, no cloud IAM auth, no network agent. If the database is not reachable from the server, it is not reachable. - **[unfiled]** `idea · result-shape-gripes` — It never comments on what came back. Four million rows dropped into a grid is a gripe, and it is silent about it. - **[unfiled]** `idea · silent-mode` — There is no way to make it shut up entirely except switching it off, which is not the same thing and loses the dismissals. - **[unfiled]** `idea · ci-mode` — Gripes only exist inside the app. They could exist in a pull request, which is where somebody else would have to read them. - **[unfiled]** `git · sidebar-pull-ff-only` — The sidebar's pull is fast-forward only. On a server's clone holding an unpushed commit, a person in the browser is as stuck as the agent was before MCP learned to rebase, and "go to a terminal" means a machine they may not be able to reach. - **[unfiled]** `brand · light-theme` — Dark theme only. That is an open item, not a stylistic position, and saying so is cheaper than pretending. - **[declined]** `rules · formatting` — No formatting rules, ever. Style filler is a formatter's job and the fastest way to get the whole thing switched off. - **[declined]** `privacy · usage-analytics` — No telemetry, ever. It answers nothing but this machine, and that is the entire point of it. - **[declined]** `editor · ai-query-generation` — It will not write your query. A tool whose thesis is that it reads SQL back to you critically cannot also be the thing that wrote it. - **[declined]** `product · query-health-score` — No grade, no "query health 62%". A number invites gaming and averages away the one blocker that mattered. - **[declined]** `product · visual-schema-design` — No ERD canvas, no DBA workflows. Drawing boxes is not the job and doing it badly is worse than not doing it. ## Rules not built yet - **[unscheduled]** `index.missing` — Nothing knows which indexes a relation has. The completion catalog does not carry them and the object describe result is not wired to the runner. - **[unscheduled]** `execution.truncated` — It cannot tell you that it stopped reading. Needs the server-side runner, which is being written. - **[unscheduled]** `statement.over-ddl` — A view created with `select *` is a finding the catalogue already has, and it fires in a query document but never on the view itself, which is the one place anyone would look. - **[unscheduled]** `plan.seq-scan` — Nothing reads an execution plan, so a sequential scan over forty million rows reads exactly like one over forty. - **[declined]** `select.unqualified-star` — `select * from t limit 100` is the single most common legitimate query there is. Griping at it is precisely the style filler this catalogue exists to avoid. See also: [rules that exist](/rules.md), [release notes](/docs/release-notes.md).