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Fixes TML-3712 and TML-3713. Part of the Convenience date and time types project (TML-3709). The tools work was reviewed as #30858 and squash-merged into this branch so both reach main in one merge-queue entry.

Summary

model Order {
  id        Int      @id
  paidAt    DateTime                                   // TimestamptzJsDate(3): timestamptz(3), a JavaScript Date
  settledAt DateTime(as: temporal)                     // TimestamptzTemporal: timestamptz, a Temporal.Instant
  legacyAt  DateTime(storage: timestamp)               // TimestampJsDate(3): timestamp(3), a Date stored as UTC
  shipBy    Date                                       // DateString: date, "2024-02-29"
  opensAt   Time(precision: 0)                         // TimeString(0): time(0), "09:30:00"
  period    Duration                                   // IntervalString: interval, "P1M"
  updatedAt DateTime @onCreate(now()) @onUpdate(now()) // the now() generator for TimestamptzJsDate
}

The decision: PSL and the TypeScript builder get four convenience types for PostgreSQL, DateTime, Date, Time and Duration, and the tools that write a schema for you write them. Each type is named for what a field means and becomes exactly one explicit type, such as TimestamptzJsDate(3). The contract stores only that explicit type: paidAt DateTime emits exactly the column paidAt TimestamptzJsDate(3) emits. No default needs a Temporal polyfill. ADR 279, on main since #30834, is the design.

Why

Prisma 8's explicit types make every choice visible: TimestamptzJsDate is a timestamptz column read as a Date. But each name fixes both the column type and the kind of value, so there are many names and no obvious one to start with. Prisma 8 gives explicit controls first and builds convenience on top of them, as the client facades do for the runtime. These types are that convenience layer for dates and times, and they only help if the schemas users start from, the ones contract infer, the Prisma 7 reader and prisma orm init write, use them.

A convenience type is a type choice

A type choice is a new kind of type declaration. It declares:

• option arguments, each with a fixed set of values written as bare names, and a default: as: (the value the application reads: jsDate, temporal, string, parts) and storage: (the database type);
• arguments it hands on to the chosen type, such as precision:;
• a table from each allowed combination of option values to an explicit type, with any argument defaults for that row.

// @internal/target-postgres: type-constructors.ts
DateTime: { kind: 'typeChoice', args: [/* as, storage, precision */], choices: [
  { when: { as: 'jsDate', storage: 'timestamptz' }, type: 'TimestamptzJsDate', defaults: { precision: 3 } },
  { when: { as: 'temporal', storage: 'timestamptz' }, type: 'TimestamptzTemporal' },
  // …
] }

A call fills in the default options, looks up the row, and builds the explicit type it names, so bare DateTime is its default row. A call is refused at the argument that makes it invalid, and the message lists what that argument accepts:

• a value an option does not list, such as Date(as: jsDate);
• a combination with no row: Argument "storage" of Time cannot be timetz with as: temporal; write one of: time.;
• an argument the chosen type does not take, such as Date(precision: 3).

When a target's types are loaded, a type choice is refused if it names an explicit type the target does not declare, has two rows for one combination, lists a value or default its option does not declare, or gives a row default for an argument the chosen type does not take.

Every place that needs a field's codec resolves the call first, including inside a types {} alias: the PSL interpreter, the @default value check, the @onCreate/@onUpdate generator lookup, the Prisma 7 reader, the MongoDB interpreter (which shares the resolution) and the language server. So DateTime(as: temporal) @onCreate(now()) gets the generator for TimestamptzTemporal.

TypeScript: one object per call

type.DateTime(...), type.Date(...), type.Time(...) and type.Duration(...) take their arguments as one object: type.DateTime({ as: 'string', precision: 6 }). Each has one overload per row, so a call is typed as the explicit type it becomes. An unknown key, a combination with no row, an argument the chosen type does not take, and a positional call all fail to compile. Explicit constructors stay positional: type.TimestamptzJsDate(3).

DateTime, Date and Time change meaning

These three names read Temporal values before; that meaning is now TimestamptzTemporal, DateTemporal and TimeTemporal. Every Prisma 8 PostgreSQL schema in the repository that used the old meaning is rewritten to the explicit names, so no committed contract.json changes from the rename. The upgrade instruction gives users the same rewrite.

The tools write the convenience types

contract infer on this table:

CREATE TABLE event (at timestamptz, paid_at timestamptz(3), legacy timestamp(3),
                    day date, opens time(0), local_at timetz, span interval);

writes:

model Event {
  at      DateTime(precision: 6)        // TimestamptzJsDate(6)
  paidAt  DateTime                      // TimestamptzJsDate(3)
  legacy  DateTime(storage: timestamp)  // TimestampJsDate(3)
  day     Date                          // DateString
  opens   Time(precision: 0)            // TimeString(0)
  localAt Time(storage: timetz)         // Timetz
  span    Duration                      // IntervalString
}

That schema emits, db verify finds nothing, and the planner plans nothing.

• Infer takes the default path. For each column it picks the explicit type the convenience default gives, then writes the shortest convenience call that becomes it, with arguments always by name. It writes the explicit type only when no convenience call fits, such as a timestamp read as Temporal.PlainDateTime (TimestampTemporal). contract print writes the same forms. One framework helper builds the call for both, and re-resolves it to prove it gives the same codec and parameters.
• An omitted precision compares equal to 6 on the date and time data types, because PostgreSQL stores microseconds either way. That lets infer write DateTime(precision: 6) for a bare timestamptz and still verify clean. The planner's check after ADD COLUMN still compares the type as written (catalogParams). No stored contract or hash changes from this.
• The Prisma 7 reader maps Prisma 7's DateTime to TimestampJsDate(3), printed DateTime(storage: timestamp), and @db.Timestamptz(p), @db.Date, @db.Time(p), @db.Timetz(p) to the matching convenience forms. An adopted project reads Date values where it read strings.
• temporal.CreatedAt and temporal.UpdatedAt are built on TimestamptzJsDate(3), exactly bare DateTime; their String and JsDate variants are removed.
• prisma orm init writes createdAt DateTime @default(now()) @onCreate(now()) and updatedAt temporal.UpdatedAt, in PSL and TypeScript.

Two fixes the default path needs

A Date cannot hold digits below a millisecond. ADR 254 says a codec refuses a stored value its application value cannot hold exactly; the Date codecs dropped the extra digits instead. The PostgreSQL timestamptz and timestamp Date codecs and MySQL's datetime Date codec now refuse such a value in fromDataTypeValue, so a .123456 default on a DateTime field is refused at authoring. Rows still read with the digits dropped. Infer prints a microsecond default as its raw SQL expression, and the Prisma 7 reader writes one through its target binding (refusedLiteralDefault). db verify cannot see a difference below a millisecond on a Date column; the docs say so.

now() rounds down to the column's precision. On a timestamp(0) column, now() at 23:59:59.700 generated a value PostgreSQL rounds up, so the row stored a time later than the write, on the next day at midnight. The PostgreSQL now generators for every timestamp codec (Date, Temporal and string) now take the column's precision and round down, as the time generators already did. Contracts with these generators get a new execution hash; the storage hash does not change.

Smaller changes

• The missing-Temporal error (RUNTIME.TEMPORAL_UNAVAILABLE) points to the convenience defaults, and the error reference lists every Temporal codec.
• Hover on a convenience type shows each argument's values and which explicit type each combination becomes.
• The glossary defines "explicit type", "convenience type" and "type choice"; ADR 254, 257 and 275 carry notes pointing to ADR 279.

Testing performed

• pnpm build, pnpm typecheck, pnpm fixtures:check, pnpm lint:deps, pnpm lint:ratchets, pnpm lint:docs, pnpm check:error-reference, pnpm check:upgrade-coverage --mode pr.
• Package tests with coverage and lint: framework-components, psl-parser, contract-psl, contract-ts, family-sql, contract-prisma7, MongoDB contract-psl, language-server, target-postgres, adapter-postgres, driver-postgres, target-mysql, CLI and the postgres facade.
• Type tests for every row of each table, and negative type tests for each refused call shape.
• Integration, run locally because PR CI skips it: every integration file about defaults, generators, dates or times, test/sql-orm-client, psl-print, psl-infer, contract-parity, prisma7-source, and the infer, Prisma 7, init and convenience-types journeys. A journey reads every convenience default from PostgreSQL in a process with no global Temporal. A PGlite test checks that now() at precision 0, 1 and 2 stores the value the client holds.
• contract infer on the table above writes that schema, which emits, verifies clean and plans nothing. examples/prisma7-adoption tests.

Skill update

skills/prisma-8/references/ (contract, debug, errors, quickstart) describe both layers and what infer writes. Upgrade instructions: convenience-date-time-types (the PSL and TypeScript rewrites for the names that change meaning) and tools-write-convenience-types (re-emit and db sign adopted projects and read Date where strings were read; rewrite the removed alias variants; write a sub-millisecond default on a Date field another way; re-emit for the now() precision). Each has a detection test.

Checklist

• All commits are signed off.
• Scoped to one logical concern: the convenience date and time types, and the tools writing them.
• Tests are updated.
• The PR title is in TML-NNNN: <sentence-case title> form.
• The Skill update section is filled in.

Notes for the reviewer

• Since the last review, the options are as: and storage: (they were value: and column:), and the TypeScript helpers take one object (they were positional). "Value" already means a data type's stored value in ADR 254, and column is a SQL word where a convenience name must mean the same on every target.
• TML-3713: contract infer, contract print, the Prisma 7 reader and orm init write the convenience date and time types #30858 was approved before it was folded in; after that approval it gained the rename, the now() precision fix, the missing-Temporal error text and the upgrade table's ISO wording.
• Ten Prisma 7 fixtures changed codec and hash; examples/prisma7-adoption reads a Date.
• SQLite, MySQL and MongoDB convenience types are TML-3714; other scalars are TML-3715.

Alternatives considered:

• A select template over option arguments (the field-preset machinery). It has no defaults and no way to refuse a combination.
• One codec parameterized by column type. A codec represents exactly one data type (ADR 254).
• Keep the Temporal meanings and give the convenience types new names. Then DateTime, the name every Prisma 7 user writes first, would be the one that needs a polyfill.
• Options named value:/column: or jsType:/dbType:. See the first reviewer note; jsType: and dbType: read as jargon.
• Infer writes the string types for microsecond columns, which lose nothing. The schema would differ from what a user would write.
• Store an omitted precision as 6 in the contract. It would change existing contracts and hashes; comparing in normal form changes none.

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Refuse rows that leave a required argument of the chosen constructor without a value.

assertTypeChoiceValid checks three things for each row:

• the option values;
• the default names;
• the data types of passed-on value arguments.

It does not check that the row can supply every required argument of the chosen constructor. Consider a row that chooses a constructor whose argument is not optional, such as VarChar with a required length. Assume that one of these conditions is true:

• No passed-on argument has that argument's name.
• No row default exists for it.
• The choice passes the argument on, but a call can leave it out because every passed-on argument is optional: true.

In each case, resolveAuthoringTypeChoice (lines 183-189) returns undefined for that position. collectScalarTypeConstructors instantiates every choice bare during stack assembly. The bare call then creates a column with an unfilled type parameter, and no pack-contribution error names the cause. The JSDoc at lines 304-306 and the README state that assembly refuses an unresolvable table. This table is unresolvable, but assembly accepts it.

To fix this, add a check for each row. Every non-optional parameter of chosenType must have a row default. An unnamed required parameter can never be supplied, so refuse it.

🛡️ Proposed check

--- "a/packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/shared/authoring-type-choice.ts"
+++ "b/packages/1-framework/1-core/framework-components/src/shared/authoring-type-choice.ts"
@@ -279,14 +279,22 @@
         );
       }
     }
     for (const argument of passed) {
       const parameter = chosenType.args?.find((candidate) => candidate.name === argument.name);
       if (parameter?.kind === 'value' && parameter.dataType !== argument.dataType) {
         invalid(
           `passes "${argument.name}" as a value of data type "${argument.dataType}" to "${row.type}", which takes "${parameter.dataType}".`,
         );
       }
     }
+    for (const parameter of chosenType.args ?? []) {
+      if (parameter.optional === true) continue;
+      if (parameter.name === undefined || row.defaults?.[parameter.name] === undefined) {
+        invalid(
+          `chooses "${row.type}", whose required argument "${parameter.name ?? '(unnamed)'}" the row gives no default for.`,
+        );
+      }
+    }
   }
   const defaults: AuthoringTypeChoiceRow = {
     when: Object.fromEntries(options.map((option) => [option.name, option.default])),

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	for (const argument of passed) {
	const parameter = chosenType.args?.find((candidate) => candidate.name === argument.name);
	if (parameter?.kind === 'value' && parameter.dataType !== argument.dataType) {
	invalid(
	`passes "${argument.name}" as a value of data type "${argument.dataType}" to "${row.type}", which takes "${parameter.dataType}".`,
	);
	}
	}
	for (const argument of passed) {
	const parameter = chosenType.args?.find((candidate) => candidate.name === argument.name);
	if (parameter?.kind === 'value' && parameter.dataType !== argument.dataType) {
	invalid(
	`passes "${argument.name}" as a value of data type "${argument.dataType}" to "${row.type}", which takes "${parameter.dataType}".`,
	);
	}
	}
	for (const parameter of chosenType.args ?? []) {
	if (parameter.optional === true) continue;
	if (parameter.name === undefined || row.defaults?.[parameter.name] === undefined) {
	invalid(
	`chooses "${row.type}", whose required argument "${parameter.name ?? '(unnamed)'}" the row gives no default for.`,
	);
	}
	}

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