razeri_plugin_contract/

sid.rs

// Copyright (C) 2026 Gabriel Shea
// Licensed under either of the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT
// license, at your option.

//! **The one derivation of a surrogate key**, composed from the vocabulary a
//! dialect states.
//!
//! [`SidSpelling`] says what one engine calls `LOWER` and `TRIM`, how it joins
//! strings, how it casts a value to text and how it spells a 64-bit hash. This
//! module turns those five answers into the expression a warehouse runs:
//!
//! ```text
//! guard( hash( normalize(part₁) ‖ '|' ‖ … ‖ normalize(partₙ) ) )
//! ```
//!
//! It is published so that a dialect author can render their own key
//! expression and run it. Without it, *"the same key on every engine"* is a
//! claim the person making it cannot check — and a key that differs by one
//! character keys a warehouse to numbers nothing else reproduces.
//!
//! # What a dialect decides, and what it does not
//!
//! The **vocabulary** is the dialect's, and it is the only thing that varies.
//! The **derivation** is fixed: there is no table of engine names here and no
//! way to add one, so a third party spells their own engine's key by stating a
//! [`SidSpelling`] and nothing else.
//!
//! Two expressions built from the same five fields differ **only** in those
//! fields. That is what makes the claim a proof rather than an assumption, and
//! it is why a dialect states a vocabulary instead of writing an expression.
//!
//! # The parts of the derivation
//!
//! - **normalize** is `LOWER(TRIM(x))` as this engine spells it, and it is the
//!   only normalization permitted — the natural value alone, never salted, so
//!   one natural key reaches one number in every context. The canonical reading
//!   is the SQL majority's: trim the ASCII space and nothing else, fold case by
//!   the locale-independent simple mapping, one code point to one;
//! - the parts are normalized **then** joined, never the other way round. A
//!   `TRIM` over a concatenation reaches only the outer edges, which would
//!   leave interior spaces beside the separator inside the hash input;
//! - **guard** is the [`NULL_SID`] sentinel, and it fires when **any** part is
//!   NULL: any NULL component keys the whole member to the sentinel;
//! - **hash** is either this engine's own spelling or a call to the
//!   [`HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME`] function, whose body is that same spelling. The
//!   two sites are one derivation — see [`HashSite`].
//!
//! # Why the normalization can appear twice
//!
//! Where the hash is reached through the helper, the helper normalizes its own
//! input as well, so the rendered call reads `generate_sid(LOWER(TRIM(x)))` and
//! the normalization runs twice. It is the same string both times: `TRIM` of an
//! already-trimmed value and `LOWER` of an already-lowered one are identities,
//! so no key moves. Spelling it at the call site anyway is what makes every
//! engine one shape — a composite must be normalized before it is joined, and
//! the helper only ever sees the joined result.

/// **The sentinel a member with any NULL key part is keyed to**, `(-2^63) + 2`.
///
/// One number, on every engine, for one reason: a NULL natural key is an
/// absence rather than a value, and two absences are not the same member. It
/// sits two above the minimum so that a warehouse can still reserve the
/// minimum itself.
pub const NULL_SID: i64 = -9_223_372_036_854_775_806_i64;

/// **The name of the surrogate-key function — the only one.**
///
/// One public name everywhere, whoever defines it. On engines where the hash is
/// an ordinary SQL expression, Razeri emits a function of this name whose body
/// is the derivation below. On engines where the hash lives outside SQL — a
/// compiled library, an assembly, a registered handler — the dialect's
/// prerequisites install an artifact under this same name and
/// [`SidSpelling::hash`] names it directly, so nothing emits a second
/// definition.
///
/// A second name is a second contract. There is no alias and no transitional
/// spelling.
pub const HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME: &str = "generate_sid";

/// `İ`, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE (U+0130).
///
/// The **only** code point whose simple and full Unicode lowercase mappings
/// differ with no context at all: the full mapping adds a combining dot the
/// simple one does not. Named so the character cannot be mistaken for an
/// ordinary `I` at a glance in the one place it is load-bearing.
///
/// It is not the whole story. Full case conversion also carries a *conditional*
/// mapping — [`CAPITAL_SIGMA`] — which is a different fact with a different
/// proof. Both are in [`PRE_FOLD_SUBSTITUTIONS`], for the same purpose and for
/// different reasons.
pub const DOTTED_CAPITAL_I: char = '\u{0130}';

/// `Σ`, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA (U+03A3).
///
/// Its **simple** lowercase is [`SMALL_SIGMA`] in every position. Its **full**
/// lowercase is [`SMALL_SIGMA`] too — *except* word-finally, where Unicode's
/// final-sigma condition makes it `ς` (U+03C2). It is the one
/// language-independent conditional mapping there is.
///
/// **Word-finally, not string-finally**: an engine returns `ς` for a sigma
/// before a space and before a hyphen alike, so a substitution that handled
/// only the last character of a value would be a local approximation. Replacing
/// every `Σ` is exact, because the simple mapping has no context to lose.
pub const CAPITAL_SIGMA: char = '\u{03A3}';

/// `σ`, GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA (U+03C3) — the **simple** lowercase of
/// [`CAPITAL_SIGMA`] in every position, and therefore what the canonical
/// normalization produces.
///
/// Note the direction: `ς` is left alone. Its own simple lowercase is itself,
/// so `ς` and `σ` are two code points and two keys. Folding one into the other
/// would be a third normalization rather than a repair.
pub const SMALL_SIGMA: char = '\u{03C3}';

/// **What has to be replaced before an engine's `LOWER` runs**, so that the
/// composition is exactly the canonical simple case mapping.
///
/// Applied in order, each substitution wrapping the previous one, by
/// [`normalize`] on every engine. The list is a property of the canonical fold
/// rather than of any engine: every engine whose `LOWER` performs full case
/// conversion needs this identical pair and differs only in what it calls
/// `LOWER` and `REPLACE`.
///
/// Each entry maps a code point to a spelling whose full and simple lowercase
/// agree, so the engine's own `LOWER` can then run over the whole value
/// untouched:
///
/// - [`DOTTED_CAPITAL_I`] → `'I'`, whose lowercase is a bare `i` everywhere —
///   the *unconditional* divergence;
/// - [`CAPITAL_SIGMA`] → [`SMALL_SIGMA`], which `LOWER` then leaves alone
///   because it is already lowercase — the *conditional* one.
pub const PRE_FOLD_SUBSTITUTIONS: &[(char, char)] =
    &[(DOTTED_CAPITAL_I, 'I'), (CAPITAL_SIGMA, SMALL_SIGMA)];

use crate::sid_spelling::{Concat, Lower, SidSpelling, TextCast, Trim};

/// Where the hash itself is spelled.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub enum HashSite<'a> {
    /// Inline this engine's own hash spelling, from [`SidSpelling::hash`].
    Native,
    /// Inline this engine's own hash spelling, in the schema Razeri installed
    /// it in — [`SidPrerequisiteHome::Schema`](crate::SidPrerequisiteHome).
    ///
    /// The schema, a dot, and then [`SidSpelling::hash`] exactly as [`Native`]
    /// writes it. So a dialect that names a home owes a `hash` whose opening
    /// text BEGINS with the function's own name: `razeri_xxh64(` qualifies to
    /// `razeri.razeri_xxh64(`, while a spelling that opened with a cast —
    /// `CAST(xxHash64(` — would put the schema in front of the cast and name
    /// nothing. Every engine that opens with a cast has a server-global
    /// function and names no home, which is why the two facts have never met.
    ///
    /// [`Native`]: Self::Native
    NativeIn(&'a str),
    /// Call the [`HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME`] function by this — possibly
    /// schema-qualified — name. Its body is the [`HashSite::Native`] spelling,
    /// so the two sites are the same derivation.
    ///
    /// **The qualifier is the function's home, not the caller's schema.** One
    /// function is created per deployment unit, so a call from any other schema
    /// of that unit has to name the schema that has it. A caller that qualifies
    /// with its own schema names a function nothing created.
    Helper(&'a str),
}

/// **`TRIM(expr)` in this engine's spelling** — the space around a value
/// taken off, and nothing else.
///
/// Public because the canonical normalization is not the only thing that has
/// to take the space off a value the source wrote: reading an amount the
/// source spelled its own way starts the same way, and two spellings of
/// `TRIM` would be two answers to one question.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `expr`: an already-rendered value expression.
#[must_use]
pub fn normalize_trim(spelling: SidSpelling, expr: &str) -> String {
    match spelling.trim {
        Trim::Function(name) => format!("{name}({expr})"),
        Trim::LtrimRtrim => format!("LTRIM(RTRIM({expr}))"),
        Trim::FunctionWithSpaceSet(name) => format!("{name}({expr}, ' ')"),
    }
}

/// **`LOWER(TRIM(expr))` in this engine's spelling** — the canonical
/// normalization, and the only one permitted: the natural value alone, never
/// salted.
///
/// Public because what an engine's fold and trim return is a separate
/// measurement from what its hash returns, and a test that can make only the
/// first one still proves half the claim. A test that re-spelled the
/// normalization would be testing itself.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `expr`: an already-rendered value expression.
#[must_use]
pub fn normalize(spelling: SidSpelling, expr: &str) -> String {
    let trimmed = normalize_trim(spelling, expr);
    let Lower { function, replace, pattern_literal_prefix: prefix, match_collation } =
        spelling.lower;
    // The subject is pinned to a binary collation where the engine would
    // otherwise match a replacement pattern under the value's own collation —
    // which, under a case-insensitive one, also replaces the final sigma the
    // canonical mapping leaves alone.
    let subject = match match_collation {
        Some(collation) => format!("{trimmed} COLLATE {collation}"),
        None => trimmed,
    };
    let substituted = PRE_FOLD_SUBSTITUTIONS.iter().fold(subject, |expr, (from, to)| {
        format!("{replace}({expr}, {prefix}'{from}', {prefix}'{to}')")
    });
    format!("{function}({substituted})")
}

/// **`CAST(expr AS text)` in this engine's spelling**, total over NULL.
///
/// Public for the reason [`normalize_trim`] is public: turning a value into
/// text is not something only the key derivation does. A caller that has to
/// read a value back out of an engine as text — because the transport it
/// arrives over encodes the engine's own types in a form the same engine will
/// not accept back — needs this engine's cast and not a second opinion about
/// it. Two spellings of one cast are two answers to one question.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `expr`: an already-rendered value expression.
#[must_use]
pub fn cast_to_text(spelling: SidSpelling, expr: &str) -> String {
    match spelling.cast_type {
        TextCast::Direct(ty) => format!("CAST({expr} AS {ty})"),
        TextCast::ClickHouseNullTolerant(ty) => {
            format!("assumeNotNull(CAST({expr} AS Nullable({ty})))")
        }
    }
}

/// **The join, written for an engine whose `CONCAT` takes exactly two
/// arguments**: the parts and the separators between them, folded left to
/// right, one call per pair.
///
/// The items are the same items the variadic call lists, in the same order, so
/// the concatenated string is the same string and the key does not move.
///
/// An empty key has nothing to nest, and the bare call is what the variadic
/// form renders for it — this form answers the same way rather than inventing a
/// second degenerate spelling.
fn nest_pairwise(name: &str, normalized: &[String]) -> String {
    let mut parts = normalized.iter();
    let Some(first) = parts.next() else { return format!("{name}()") };
    parts.fold(first.clone(), |left, next| format!("{name}({name}({left}, '|'), {next})"))
}

/// **The derivation**: normalize each part, join on `'|'`, hash the result.
///
/// `text_args` are already-rendered value expressions, already cast to text
/// where the caller needs it — a column reference inside a load statement, a
/// parameter name inside the key function's own body. Callers name the value
/// differently, so composing the name here would mean knowing which caller was
/// asking.
///
/// The result carries **no NULL guard**; [`guard_null_members`] wraps this
/// rather than each engine's arm spelling a guard of its own.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `text_args`: the key's parts, already cast to text;
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `site`: whether the hash is inlined or reached through the function.
#[must_use]
pub fn sid_derivation(text_args: &[String], spelling: SidSpelling, site: HashSite<'_>) -> String {
    let normalized: Vec<String> = text_args.iter().map(|arg| normalize(spelling, arg)).collect();
    let joined = if normalized.len() == 1 {
        normalized[0].clone()
    } else {
        match spelling.concat {
            Concat::Function(name) => format!("{name}({})", normalized.join(", '|', ")),
            Concat::FunctionBinary(name) => nest_pairwise(name, &normalized),
            Concat::Plus => normalized.join(" + '|' + "),
        }
    };
    match site {
        HashSite::Native => format!("{}{joined}{}", spelling.hash.0, spelling.hash.1),
        HashSite::NativeIn(home) => {
            format!("{home}.{}{joined}{}", spelling.hash.0, spelling.hash.1)
        }
        HashSite::Helper(name) => format!("{name}({joined})"),
    }
}

/// **The [`NULL_SID`] sentinel, wrapped around the derivation.**
///
/// `raw_args` are the arguments **before** any cast — a cast preserves
/// NULL-ness, and `CAST(x AS TEXT) IS NULL` only makes the guard harder to
/// read.
///
/// **Any NULL component of a composite keys the whole member to the sentinel.**
/// That closes a collision as well as an omission: on several engines
/// `CONCAT('x', '|', NULL)` is `'x|'`, byte-identical to
/// `CONCAT('x', '|', '')`, so `('boston', NULL)` and `('boston', '')` would be
/// one member. Testing the components before they are joined is the only place
/// the distinction still exists.
///
/// The guard is a `CASE WHEN` rather than a `COALESCE` because it tests the
/// **input**. A `COALESCE` over the hash's *output* reaches the sentinel only
/// where the hash propagates NULL, and on at least one engine the hash of NULL
/// is a perfectly ordinary number.
///
/// An empty key renders no guard rather than an empty one.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `raw_args`: the key's parts as the caller wrote them, before any cast;
/// - `derivation`: the expression [`sid_derivation`] produced.
#[must_use]
pub fn guard_null_members(raw_args: &[String], derivation: String) -> String {
    if raw_args.is_empty() {
        return derivation;
    }
    let test = raw_args.iter().map(|arg| format!("{arg} IS NULL")).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(" OR ");
    format!("CASE WHEN {test} THEN {NULL_SID} ELSE {derivation} END")
}

/// **The surrogate key as one expression**: cast, derive, guard.
///
/// This is the whole composition, and it is what every producer of a key
/// expression emits — the load that keys a dimension, the body of the
/// per-entity key function, the formula a design can name. Rendering it for
/// your own engine and running it is how you check that your
/// [`SidSpelling`] reaches the number every other engine reaches.
///
/// ```
/// use razeri_plugin_contract::{ANSI_SID_SPELLING, sid};
///
/// let key = sid::sid_expression(ANSI_SID_SPELLING, None, &["t.city".to_owned()]);
/// assert!(key.starts_with("CASE WHEN t.city IS NULL THEN "));
/// assert!(key.contains("generate_sid("));
/// ```
///
/// # `helper_home` is the key function's schema, never the caller's
///
/// The only thing a schema does here is qualify the call to
/// [`HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME`] on the engines whose
/// [`SidSpelling::through_helper`] is true. Where the key function is an
/// installed artifact instead, its own name is rendered and this argument is
/// ignored entirely — on at least one engine a compiled function lives server
/// globally and a qualified call to it does not resolve at all.
///
/// So the schema this wants is the one the function was **created** in, which
/// is a property of the deployment unit rather than of whichever entity is
/// being keyed. `None` renders the call unqualified, which is correct wherever
/// nothing is qualified: an engine without schemas, or a design that names no
/// schema.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `helper_home`: the schema the key function was created in, where the call
///   needs qualifying;
/// - `parts`: the key's parts as raw value expressions, in order.
#[must_use]
pub fn sid_expression(
    spelling: SidSpelling,
    helper_home: Option<&str>,
    parts: &[String],
) -> String {
    let qualified = helper_home
        .map_or_else(|| HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME.to_owned(), |s| format!("{s}.{HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME}"));
    sid_expression_through(spelling, &qualified, parts)
}

/// **The same expression, with the helper's name already spelled by the
/// target.**
///
/// [`sid_expression`] writes the helper's name the way most engines read it —
/// the schema, a dot, the name, all bare. That is a name on every engine that
/// leaves an unquoted word alone and a *different* name on one that folds it,
/// where the function was created under the spelling that engine's own DDL
/// wrote. A caller holding the dialect spells the name first and hands it in
/// here, so the call and the `CREATE FUNCTION` say the same word.
///
/// Parameters:
/// - `spelling`: this engine's vocabulary;
/// - `helper`: the key helper's name, qualified and spelled;
/// - `parts`: the key's parts as raw value expressions, in order.
#[must_use]
pub fn sid_expression_through(spelling: SidSpelling, helper: &str, parts: &[String]) -> String {
    let cast: Vec<String> = parts.iter().map(|arg| cast_to_text(spelling, arg)).collect();
    let site = if spelling.through_helper { HashSite::Helper(helper) } else { HashSite::Native };
    guard_null_members(parts, sid_derivation(&cast, spelling, site))
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use crate::sid_spelling::ANSI_SID_SPELLING;

    /// A vocabulary for the composition tests. It is a fixture, not an engine:
    /// what is under test here is the derivation, and every real engine's
    /// vocabulary comes off its own dialect.
    const HELPER_ROUTED: SidSpelling =
        SidSpelling { platform: "test", hash: ("pg_xxhash64(", ")"), ..ANSI_SID_SPELLING };

    /// An empty key cannot be guarded, and must not render `CASE WHEN  THEN` —
    /// an empty test is worse than no test.
    #[test]
    fn an_empty_key_renders_no_guard_rather_than_an_empty_one() {
        assert!(!sid_expression(HELPER_ROUTED, None, &[]).contains("CASE WHEN"));
    }

    /// **Every spelling renders both substitutions, in order.**
    ///
    /// Whether an engine's `LOWER` is the simple mapping or the full one is
    /// decided by the collation its database was created with rather than by
    /// the engine, so the substitution is unconditional: it costs nothing where
    /// the lowercase is already simple, and it is the difference between one
    /// number and two where it is not.
    #[test]
    fn a_spelling_pre_replaces_both_divergent_code_points() {
        assert_eq!(
            normalize(HELPER_ROUTED, "x"),
            "LOWER(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(x), '\u{0130}', 'I'), '\u{03A3}', '\u{03C3}'))"
        );
    }

    /// **An engine that matches a replacement pattern under the value's own
    /// collation gets the subject pinned and the pattern prefixed.**
    #[test]
    fn a_collation_sensitive_replacement_pins_its_subject_and_prefixes_its_pattern() {
        let pinned = SidSpelling {
            lower: Lower {
                pattern_literal_prefix: "N",
                match_collation: Some("Latin1_General_BIN2"),
                ..ANSI_SID_SPELLING.lower
            },
            ..HELPER_ROUTED
        };
        assert_eq!(
            normalize(pinned, "x"),
            "LOWER(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(x) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2, N'\u{0130}', N'I'), \
             N'\u{03A3}', N'\u{03C3}'))"
        );
    }

    /// **A spelling that does not route through the key function ignores the
    /// schema.**
    ///
    /// An engine whose key function is an installed artifact must render a
    /// **bare** call: the artifact is registered where that engine registers
    /// artifacts, not in a schema Razeri created.
    #[test]
    fn a_spelling_that_inlines_its_artifact_ignores_the_schema_it_is_passed() {
        let external =
            SidSpelling { hash: ("generate_sid(", ")"), through_helper: false, ..HELPER_ROUTED };
        let qualified = sid_expression(external, Some("acme"), &["x".to_owned()]);
        let bare = sid_expression(external, None, &["x".to_owned()]);
        assert_eq!(
            qualified, bare,
            "passing a schema moved the key function's name — the artifact is not in a schema \
             Razeri created"
        );
        assert!(!qualified.contains("acme."), "the emitted call qualifies an installed artifact");
    }

    /// The call through the key function and the inlined native spelling are
    /// the same derivation over the same normalized input — the only difference
    /// is where the hash is written down.
    #[test]
    fn the_helper_site_and_the_native_site_normalize_identically() {
        let args = ["a".to_owned(), "b".to_owned()];
        let native = sid_derivation(&args, HELPER_ROUTED, HashSite::Native);
        let helper = sid_derivation(&args, HELPER_ROUTED, HashSite::Helper(HELPER_FUNCTION_NAME));
        let a = "LOWER(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(a), '\u{0130}', 'I'), '\u{03A3}', '\u{03C3}'))";
        let b = "LOWER(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(b), '\u{0130}', 'I'), '\u{03A3}', '\u{03C3}'))";
        assert_eq!(native, format!("pg_xxhash64(CONCAT({a}, '|', {b}))"));
        assert_eq!(helper, format!("generate_sid(CONCAT({a}, '|', {b}))"));
    }

    /// **Any NULL part keys the whole member to the sentinel**, and the guard
    /// tests the parts rather than the hash's result.
    #[test]
    fn any_null_part_reaches_the_sentinel_and_the_guard_tests_the_input() {
        let composite = sid_expression(HELPER_ROUTED, None, &["a".to_owned(), "b".to_owned()]);
        assert!(composite.starts_with("CASE WHEN a IS NULL OR b IS NULL THEN "));
        assert!(composite.contains(&NULL_SID.to_string()));
        assert!(!composite.contains("COALESCE"));
    }

    /// **An engine whose `CONCAT` takes exactly two arguments gets one call per
    /// pair**, nested left to right, over the same items the variadic call
    /// lists.
    #[test]
    fn a_binary_concat_nests_one_call_per_pair() {
        let spelling = SidSpelling { concat: Concat::FunctionBinary("CONCAT"), ..HELPER_ROUTED };
        let part = |arg: &str| normalize(spelling, arg);
        let two = ["a".to_owned(), "b".to_owned()];
        assert_eq!(
            sid_derivation(&two, spelling, HashSite::Native),
            format!("pg_xxhash64(CONCAT(CONCAT({}, '|'), {}))", part("a"), part("b"))
        );
        let three = ["a".to_owned(), "b".to_owned(), "c".to_owned()];
        assert_eq!(
            sid_derivation(&three, spelling, HashSite::Native),
            format!(
                "pg_xxhash64(CONCAT(CONCAT(CONCAT(CONCAT({}, '|'), {}), '|'), {}))",
                part("a"),
                part("b"),
                part("c")
            )
        );
    }

    /// **A one-part key is not joined at all**, on this form as on the other
    /// two: there is nothing to join, and a one-argument `CONCAT` is a call an
    /// engine with a two-argument one does not have either.
    #[test]
    fn a_binary_concat_leaves_a_one_part_key_unjoined() {
        let binary = SidSpelling { concat: Concat::FunctionBinary("CONCAT"), ..HELPER_ROUTED };
        let one = ["a".to_owned()];
        assert_eq!(
            sid_derivation(&one, binary, HashSite::Native),
            sid_derivation(&one, HELPER_ROUTED, HashSite::Native)
        );
        assert!(!sid_derivation(&one, binary, HashSite::Native).contains("CONCAT"));
    }

    /// An empty key renders the bare call — the same degenerate spelling the
    /// variadic form renders, so the two forms stay comparable where there is
    /// nothing to join.
    #[test]
    fn a_binary_concat_renders_the_bare_call_for_an_empty_key() {
        let binary = SidSpelling { concat: Concat::FunctionBinary("CONCAT"), ..HELPER_ROUTED };
        assert_eq!(
            sid_derivation(&[], binary, HashSite::Native),
            sid_derivation(&[], HELPER_ROUTED, HashSite::Native)
        );
        assert_eq!(sid_derivation(&[], binary, HashSite::Native), "pg_xxhash64(CONCAT())");
    }

    /// **The three join forms are three spellings of one string.** Read the
    /// items out of each rendering and they are the same items in the same
    /// order — which is why a dialect may answer whichever one its engine
    /// parses without moving a key.
    #[test]
    fn the_three_join_forms_concatenate_the_same_items_in_the_same_order() {
        let parts = ["a".to_owned(), "b".to_owned(), "c".to_owned()];
        let items = |spelling| {
            let rendered = sid_derivation(&parts, spelling, HashSite::Native);
            let mut found = Vec::new();
            for arg in ["a", "b", "c"] {
                let normalized = normalize(spelling, arg);
                let at = rendered.find(&normalized).expect("every part is joined");
                found.push((at, arg));
            }
            found.sort_unstable();
            (
                found.into_iter().map(|(_, arg)| arg).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
                rendered.matches("'|'").count(),
            )
        };
        let variadic = items(HELPER_ROUTED);
        let binary =
            items(SidSpelling { concat: Concat::FunctionBinary("CONCAT"), ..HELPER_ROUTED });
        let operator = items(SidSpelling { concat: Concat::Plus, ..HELPER_ROUTED });
        assert_eq!(variadic, (vec!["a", "b", "c"], 2));
        assert_eq!(binary, variadic);
        assert_eq!(operator, variadic);
    }

    /// The sentinel is two above the smallest 64-bit integer, and it is spelled
    /// once.
    #[test]
    fn the_sentinel_is_two_above_the_smallest_integer() {
        assert_eq!(NULL_SID, i64::MIN + 2);
    }
}