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Fix predicate subtraction so nested conjunctions cannot recurse forever. Queries whose requested and loaded predicates share a nested condition now compute their remaining demand instead of overflowing the stack.

Root cause

The common-condition path flattened nested AND expressions when it found shared terms, but removed terms only from the top-level AND. A shared nested term could therefore trigger a recursive call with an unchanged operand. The same call then repeated until JavaScript raised RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded.

Normal tests missed this because their shared conditions were direct children of the top-level conjunction. A 100× oracle campaign found the asymmetric nested shape at seed 801267634, path 2185:4:2:12:9:5:4:3.

Approach

  • Flatten conjunctions consistently when removing shared conditions.
  • Return whether each removal made progress.
  • Recurse only when both operands strictly lose a flattened AND term.
  • Add a deterministic regression plus a small Cartesian semantic oracle spanning nested layouts, equality, range, and NOT terms.

Key invariant

Every recursive common-condition simplification must strictly reduce both operands. If it cannot prove that decrease, predicate subtraction falls through to the existing non-recursive rules.

Non-goals

This does not redesign predicate normalization or add new subtraction laws. It only makes the existing common-condition reduction complete for nested conjunctions and explicitly terminating.

Verification

Red on origin/main:

  • The 100× load-subset oracle campaign failed with RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded at seed 801267634, path 2185:4:2:12:9:5:4:3.

Green on this branch:

pnpm vitest run packages/db/tests/query/predicate-utils.test.ts --pool-options.threads.maxThreads=2
  • 145 predicate utility tests pass.
  • An independent Cartesian probe checked 980,100 predicate pairs without a stack overflow or semantic mismatch.
  • pnpm exec changeset status --since=origin/main validates the @tanstack/db patch changeset.

Files changed

  • packages/db/src/query/predicate-utils.ts: require strict recursive progress and remove nested shared conjunction terms.
  • packages/db/tests/query/predicate-utils.test.ts: pin the failing shape and exhaust related nested predicate layouts over a small value domain.
  • .changeset/fix-nested-predicate-subtraction.md: record the patch release note.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed predicate subtraction for queries with nested AND conditions.
    • Prevented predicate processing from getting stuck when conditions overlap across nested expressions.
    • Improved handling of equality, range, and negated conditions during predicate subtraction.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for nested predicate subtraction across multiple values and condition types.
    • Added property-based validation to verify correct results across varied predicate combinations and boolean arrangements.

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This change fixes nested conjunction handling in predicate subtraction. The removal helper reports progress, and recursion continues only when both predicates lose conditions. Tests validate structure and semantics with targeted and property-based cases.

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Predicate subtraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Nested condition removal
.changeset/fix-nested-predicate-subtraction.md, packages/db/src/query/predicate-utils.ts
removeConditions flattens nested conjunctions and reports whether removal occurred. minusWherePredicates recurses only when both operands change.
Subtraction regression coverage
packages/db/tests/query/predicate-utils.test.ts, packages/db/tests/query/predicate-subtraction-oracle.property.test.ts
Tests validate nested subtraction for equality, range, and negated predicates. Property-based tests compare results with SQL-like three-valued evaluation across generated cases.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 51f32

The PR narrowly fixes nested predicate subtraction and is backed by deterministic regression and broad semantic checks. A trivial test-harness gap remains because null results may skip assertions, but this follow-up is bounded and does not indicate a merge-blocking production risk.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: terminating nested predicate subtraction in the database package.
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packages/db/tests/query/predicate-subtraction-oracle.property.test.ts (1)

201-211: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Guard against a vacuous pass when minusWherePredicates returns null.

Line 202 skips all assertions when the result is null. minusWherePredicates returns null whenever it cannot simplify, so a regression that stops the common-condition simplification path would make every generated scenario skip silently and the property would still pass.

Record how many scenarios produced a non-null result and assert a lower bound after the run, or assert non-null for a small set of scenarios that must simplify.

♻️ Example: count simplified scenarios
-function assertSemanticDifference(scenario: DifferenceScenario): void {
+let simplifiedCount = 0
+
+function assertSemanticDifference(scenario: DifferenceScenario): void {
   const requested = buildOperand(
@@
   const result = minusWherePredicates(requested, loaded)
   if (result === null) return
+  simplifiedCount++

Then reset simplifiedCount in a beforeAll/beforeEach and assert simplifiedCount > 0 in an afterAll for the suite.

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In `@packages/db/tests/query/predicate-subtraction-oracle.property.test.ts` around
lines 201 - 211, Update the property test around minusWherePredicates to track
how many generated scenarios return a non-null result, incrementing the count
before evaluating candidates and retaining the existing null skip; after the
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In `@packages/db/tests/query/predicate-subtraction-oracle.property.test.ts`:
- Around line 201-211: Update the property test around minusWherePredicates to
track how many generated scenarios return a non-null result, incrementing the
count before evaluating candidates and retaining the existing null skip; after
the property run, assert the count is greater than zero so all scenarios cannot
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