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+Analytics `$icontains` no longer compiles a `translate()` call on the `sqlite` and `mysql` dialects. On **SQLite** that function does not exist and the statement failed to parse — measured on the engine, not inferred. On **MySQL** the same construct was emitted and its arm is repaired the same way, but nothing was ever executed there: the MySQL arm is asserted as emitted TEXT only, on this face and on `driver-sql`'s alike, so no MySQL parse failure is claimed as measured.
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+`$icontains` folds ASCII case on both sides of the comparison (#4706 Q1 = A). All three of this package's SQL compilers — the query's own `where` (`NativeSQLStrategy.buildFilterClause`), the ADR-0021 D-C read scope (`compileScopedFilterToSql`) and the `ObjectQLStrategy` echo of that statement — spelled that fold as `translate(col, 'ABC…', 'abc…')` on all four dialect values a compiler can see: `sqlite`, `mysql`, `postgres` and `unknown`, onto which `normalizeSqlDialect` maps everything else, an unset hook and `'oracle'` included. `translate()` is PostgreSQL/Oracle; SQLite has none. Measured on sql.js 1.14.1 (SQLite 3.49.1, the engine `driver-sqlite-wasm` runs), `SELECT translate('ABC','ABC','abc')` answers `no such function: translate` — so this was not a filter that returned the wrong rows, it was a statement the engine refused. On a SQLite datasource, an analytics `where` carrying `$icontains` and an **RLS read scope** carrying it were both unusable.
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+The fold is now chosen per dialect, on the same construct table the case-exact text family already used, reached through one `fold` flag:
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+- **SQLite** — `lower(col) GLOB lower(?)`. SQLite's `lower()` is ASCII-only (measured: `lower('CAFÉ')` is `cafÉ`), so this is the ruled fold rather than an approximation of it, and it runs.
+- **PostgreSQL** and the `unknown` residue — `translate()`, byte-for-byte what those two arms emitted before. Measured set for that word: this package's own suite pins six cells verbatim — `{NativeSQLStrategy, ObjectQLStrategy echo, compileScopedFilterToSql} × {dialect unset, 'postgres'}` for `{name: {$icontains: 'acme'}}`, full emitted SQL and the exact bound params — and the round-1 contract review widened it to **2,721 cells** (2,720 = `{undefined, 'postgres', 'unknown', 'oracle'} × 5 compiler paths × 8 filter shapes × 17 comparands`, plus the bare `{dialect: undefined}` cell), emitted at the merge-base blobs (all five hash-verified) and again at this head: **0 changed cells, 0 error cells**. Outside that set nothing is claimed — no PostgreSQL server was contacted, and on `sqlite` and `mysql` the bytes deliberately changed (340 of 680 cells each, all inside the four `$icontains` shapes).
+- **MySQL** — the nested-`REPLACE` fold over `CAST(… AS BINARY)`, matching what `driver-sql` emits for the same operator; the review measured the two faces byte-equal on 60 of 60 MySQL cells. Asserted as text only — no MySQL server is provisionable in the container that wrote this, so that cell is a declared skip, not a claimed pass.
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+⚠️ Carve-out, stated because it is the surviving half of the defect and not an aside: an `unknown` dialect that is really SQLite is **not** fixed by this change. The residue is reached by four constructions the round-1 contract review drove rather than reasoned — a `SqlDriver` given a **class** client or an unrecognised spelling (`'libsql'`), a host hook answering knex's own `'sqlite3'`, a directly-constructed public `AnalyticsService` with the optional `sqlDialect` omitted, and a `data` service without `getDriverForObject`. For each of them `translate()` still reaches the engine and still fails to parse, on the `where` path, the read scope and the echo alike. No in-repo SQLite driver lands there — `SqliteWasmDriver` and `TursoDriver` both answer `"sqlite"`, measured — so this is an embedder-composition population, not a shipped-driver one. Tracked as #16028.
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+`$icontains` and the case-sensitive `$contains` family remain two separate constructs on every dialect the compilers accept — collapsing them would give `$contains` back the case fold #4706 Q2 = A took away from it. Measured set for that word: 510 cells (six dialect names — the four values above plus `'oracle'` and an unset hook, which both normalize to `unknown` — × 5 compiler paths × 17 comparands), 0 of them identical between the two families and no `$contains` cell carrying a fold.
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+⚠️ One deliberate divergence from `driver-sql`, recorded here rather than only in this package's source: `driver-sql`'s own `unknown` arm folds with `LOWER()`, this one keeps `translate()`. Each face keeps the residue it already had, and adopting `LOWER()` here would silently restore on PostgreSQL the Unicode fold #4706 Q1 = A rules out. The pointer exists on this side only; `driver-sql` carries no cross-reference back.