verified-correctness-extends-to-all-backends

OUT derived (depth 13)

Verified production correctness — spanning all belief origins with deterministic state trajectories and full maintenance loop observability for indefinite independent verification — extends identically across both SQLite and PostgreSQL storage backends with no backend-specific safety gaps.

Summary

The system's correctness guarantees are claimed to work equally well whether the database is SQLite or PostgreSQL, with no gaps introduced by switching backends. This matters because if true, operators could swap storage engines without worrying that safety properties or verification capabilities degrade — but since this claim is currently retracted, that cross-backend equivalence has not held up, suggesting there may be backend-specific differences that need attention.

Justifications

SL — Observable verified correctness (depth-12) should hold across all backends (depth-4), but PgApi's incomplete API coverage means PostgreSQL cannot yet guarantee the same verified correctness as SQLite

Antecedents (all must be IN):

  • verified-correctness-is-indefinitely-observable — Verified production correctness — spanning all belief origins with deterministic state trajectories — is both independently observable through the fully characterized maintenance loop and indefinitely sustainable through minimality's fixed-point self-maintenance, ensuring correctness can be verified at any future point without temporal degradation of either the correctness or the ability to observe it.
  • safety-is-enforced-across-all-layers-and-backends — Safety is enforced uniformly across both the architectural dimension (clean layer boundaries with atomic isolated mutations) and the storage dimension (equivalent guarantees through backend-appropriate mechanisms in SQLite and PostgreSQL) — no safety property depends on a specific backend or architectural layer.

Unless (any of these IN defeats this justification):

  • pgapi-partial-api-coverage — PgApi implements core operations (add/retract/assert/search/nogood/explain) but defers simulation, dialectics, namespace support, import/export, and maintenance operations to future work

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