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A.Shakhmatov f04e7125c9 update: refuse a positional path instead of destroying the array
`{$set: {"y.$[i].b": 2}}` did not fail to update the array. It replaced
`y: [{b: 3}, {b: 1}]` with `y: {"$[i]": {"b": 2}}` -- every element
discarded -- and answered ok: 1, modifiedCount: 1. Remotely reachable by any
client issuing an ordinary MongoDB update.

`arrayFilters` was not implicated: the string appears nowhere in src/, the
option is accepted off the wire and dropped. The destruction was in the
path, at `set_path`'s "treat as non-array: replace with a doc" branch, so it
fired for all three spellings of "descend into this array" -- `$`, `$[]` and
`$[<ident>]` -- under every operator. `$inc` through `$[i]` stored its
operand rather than incrementing.

Two refusals, because the branch held two different mistakes:

  - a positional segment is refused up front, before anything is applied, so
    an update naming a good path and a positional one lands neither. Its
    code is BadValue (2), which is what mongod answers for every positional
    path failure.
  - a plain non-numeric segment under an array -- `y.nope.b`, `y.$x.b` -- is
    PathNotViable (28), measured. It is never a field to create, which is
    the opposite of what `set_path` does for a missing *document* field and
    the reason this branch existed at all.

Numeric segments are untouched, including the null padding past the end,
which a test now pins.

Messages are this server's own words. mongod's PathNotViable text embeds a
shell-syntax rendering of the offending element (`Cannot create field 'nope'
in element {y: [ { b: 3 }, { b: 1 } ]}`) and no BSON formatter here produces
it. The code is what the corpus asserts and the code is exact; a half-copy
of the text would be worse than a clear sentence that does not pretend.

Re-running the 17-case probe against both servers: 16 of 17 diverged before,
0 are destructive now, and 5 agree with mongod's code exactly -- every case
where mongod also refuses. The rest refuse where mongod succeeds, which is
the honest not-implemented state and is what the design review chose.

Scorecard unchanged at 204 pass / 87 fail: the 14 arrayFilters cases still
fail, now reporting the refusal rather than a corrupted document. That was
the gate this review picked -- `docs/M3_ARRAYFILTERS_DESIGN_REVIEW.md` §5,
option D -- because the corpus has no `$[]` case and no bare `$` case at
all, so passing it would have certified two live ways to destroy an array.

206/206 unit (8 new) in ReleaseFast and ReleaseSafe, 83/83 fuzz, aggregation
corpus 70/0, full e2e matrix and crash-fuzz green. Both refusals are
mutation-checked: dropping the up-front scan reddens four tests on the
array's contents rather than on the error, and restoring the destructive
branch reddens the PathNotViable test.
2026-08-10 18:21:14 +03:00

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