feat(spec): refuse a postgres config.url that pg itself cannot parse at publish

[os-zhuang]

Fixes#9091

What

PostgresConfigSchema.url documented a grammar (postgresql://[user@][host][:port][/dbname][?params]) and enforced none of it: the value only went through the shared credentialFreeUrl / placeholderFree string scans, whose refusal to parse is load-bearing for mongo's multi-host/+srv forms (#8696) — correctly lenient there, no check at all here. Measured on pg@8.22.0: both pg-connection-string's parse and pg's ConnectionParameters throw TypeError [ERR_INVALID_URL] on postgresql://app@h1:5432,h2:5433/app, yet the schema accepted it — the failure surfaced only at connect, as a bare Invalid URL whose input field pg redacts.

Per triage, the fix is a per-driver superRefine on the postgres url only — the shared helper is untouched — that asks pg's own grammar rather than re-modeling it: parse from pg-connection-string@^2.14.0 (the parser pg itself uses; added as a dependency of @objectstack/spec — service-datasource already depends on it for the #8873 runtime arm). Refused, each at the value's path:

1. Anything parse throws on (multi-host DSNs, non-numeric ports, malformed percent-escapes), quoting the parser's own message and naming the multi-host cause plus the single-host/proxy replacement.
2. A scheme-less non-URL — structurally unusable: parse only "accepts" it by resolving against its placeholder base (postgres://base), so pg would connect to the literal host base with the authored text as the database name. Detection mirrors the parser's own preprocessing (space re-encoding, the @/ empty-host retry), so the two cannot disagree about which branch ran.
3. The fs-reading query parameters?sslcert= / ?sslkey= / ?sslrootcert= — these make parse itself call fs.readFileSync, so letting them through would have publish-time validation reading the validating server's filesystem (verdict depends on which machine validates; existence oracle). Named explicitly as the one place this PR refuses something pg can sometimes open: certificate material already has its declared home in the datasource-level ssl block — the exact prescription the config-level ca/cert/key keys carry (SSL_DETAIL_BELONGS_ON_DATASOURCE). Boundary mirrors pg exactly where it can: exact-case keys, non-empty values only (?SSLCERT= and ?sslcert= stay accepted — measured, pg reads neither).

Accept-side, pinned byte-identically: single-host URLs (credential-free included), empty-host libpq forms (postgresql:///db, postgresql://user@/db), unix-socket spellings (leading-/ path, socket:, percent-encoded host), IPv6 hosts, non-credential/non-fs query params — and mongo's multi-host form via MongoConfigSchema (the shared helper's leniency it must keep). Composition pinned: a value violating both the #8082 credential rule and this one reports both issues.

Contract change plumbing

• ADR-0087 semantic entry: packages/spec/src/migrations/entries/semantic/18.datasource-config-postgres-url-unparseable-refused.ts; registry.ts regenerated via pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec gen:migration-registry (never hand-edited).
• Changeset: @objectstack/specminor (matching the sibling semantic-refusal changesets turso: ?authToken= in an authored config.url / config.syncUrl query string is credential material the #8082 userinfo refusal does not cover #8337/mongo config.options.auth.password is a fourth spelling of an inline credential — authorable, persisted cleartext, unredacted, and read by the client #9040/Nothing refuses the contradictory pair "external.credentialsRef bound + a config.url naming no user" — the binding is a silent no-op at connect #9041's launch-window convention), body carries the FROM → TO migration and adr-0087: registered marker.
• Docs: content/docs/references/data/driver-postgres.mdx regenerated by check:generated --fix (describe/TSDoc change).

Verification (all at 4f8f302, the final commit)

• pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec test — 406 files / 10816 passed.
• pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec typecheck — green.
• pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build && check:generated — all artifact gates green after --fix regenerated the one proved-stale artifact (docs).
• Reverse verification (fix reverted from the committed state, expected direction: red): exactly the 6 new refusal pins fail, all accept-side pins stay green; restored, tree clean vs HEAD.
• Downstream consumer sweep (prefix direction — consumers of spec, run against the rebuilt dist): @objectstack/service-datasource 478 passed, @objectstack/runtime 2468 passed. Fixture sweep over the rule's consumption radius found no repo fixture authoring a now-refused postgres URL.
• Gate re-derivation (node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs <changed paths>) union run: cross-package-test-inputs, doc-formula-expressions (after building @objectstack/formula — fresh-worktree artifact, not this change), docs-audit-scope, docs-redirects, merge-driver, objectui-changeset, quick-reference-counts, release-page-status, role-word, spec-parsed-alias, type-source-resolution, adr-0087-registration, changeset-no-major, empty-changeset, dev-prereqs, query-options-erasure, engine-double-contract, where-matcher, type-check-coverage, type-check-debt --re-measure (workspace closure built first), check-nul-bytes — all green.

Notes for review

• parse on a URL with ?sslmode=require|prefer|verify-ca emits pg's own once-per-process deprecation process.emitWarning — pre-existing pg behavior now reachable at publish-time validation; guarded by the library (typeof process !== 'undefined'), once per process.
• pg-connection-string has no runtime deps; its fs require is lazy and unreachable from this call site (the fs-param refusal runs first). Worth knowing for browser bundles that may pull spec's data entry.
• Nothing refuses the contradictory pair "external.credentialsRef bound + a config.url naming no user" — the binding is a silent no-op at connect #9041 / mongo config.options.auth.password is a fourth spelling of an inline credential — authorable, persisted cleartext, unredacted, and read by the client #9040's sibling refusals on the same file surface were re-verified untouched (their pins are in the 10816).

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