The plan names a missing feature sized at 14 corpus cases. The measurement
found a data-loss bug.
`{$set: {'y.$[i].b': 2}}` does not fail to update the array -- it replaces
the array with `{"$[i]": {"b": 2}}` and answers ok: 1, modifiedCount: 1.
Every element is discarded. `src/update.zig:283` reaches a non-numeric
segment under an array and takes the "treat as non-array: replace with a
doc" branch, so `$`, `$[]` and `$[<ident>]` all destroy what they were meant
to descend into, under every operator -- `$inc` through `$[i]` stores the
operand rather than incrementing. 16 of 17 probe cases diverge from mongod.
`arrayFilters` is not implicated: the string appears nowhere in `src/`. The
option is accepted off the wire and dropped.
The gate finding, which is the reason to write this before any code: M3's
gate is "remaining crud coverage; e2e3/e2e4 green". e2e3 and e2e4 contain
zero positional paths and would stay green through every version of this
bug. The pinned corpus covers `$[<ident>]` only -- it has no `$[]` case and
no bare `$` case anywhere. A fix scoped to what the gate measures would go
green on 14 new passes with two of the three ways to destroy an array still
live. The gate would certify the bug as fixed.
Also measured, none of it guessable and two of them inverting how set_path
behaves today: one path can name many targets (`y.$[].c.$[].d` is a genuine
cross-product); a positional segment never creates anything, so a missing
or non-array path is an error where `$set: {'a.b': 1}` would construct, and
upsert gets no special case; ten distinct refusals across codes 2, 9 and 14,
recorded with their messages, including one row that breaks the otherwise
tidy 2/9 split and is left untidy on purpose.
Recommends refusing first as its own commit -- the M2 doctrine, and it stops
the data loss without waiting on the redesign -- then a recorded positional
corpus built like tests/spec/aggregate/, with `$[]` and `$[<ident>]`
together and `$` after, since only `$` needs the matched index carried out
of query evaluation.
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