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Docs: elementary-data/elementary#2338

What

Adds the five _with_context variants that were requested, extracts the duplicated context-column logic into one helper, and replaces the dbt_expectations regex call with a native cross-database implementation.

New tests

  • expression_is_true_with_context
  • not_empty_string_with_context
  • expect_column_pair_values_A_to_be_greater_than_B_with_context
  • expect_compound_columns_to_be_unique_with_context
  • expect_column_values_to_match_regex_list_with_context

get_context_select_clause

Every _with_context test carried its own copy of the same ~20 line context-resolution block. With the new tests that would have been eleven copies, so it is now one macro.

It also guards on execute. At parse time model is the test node rather than the tested relation, so the previous code ran get_columns_in_relation against a relation named after the test and warned that every context column was missing, once per context column per test on every full parse.

regexp_match

Both regex tests called dbt_expectations.regexp_instr(), but dbt_expectations is not in packages.yml, so they only compiled for users who happened to install it themselves.

dbt_expectations overrides regexp_instr for seven adapters (snowflake, bigquery, postgres, redshift, duckdb, spark, trino) while Elementary supports 14. Everything else fell through to a default__ of regexp_instr(col, 'p', 1, 1), a function that does not exist on Athena, ClickHouse, Dremio, SQL Server or Fabric, so the regex tests errored outright on all five. Vertica happened to work, since it does have REGEXP_INSTR.

The new macro:

  • returns a boolean rather than a string position, which removes a boolean-compared-to-integer comparison that only worked through coercion
  • covers all 14 adapters, using each engine's own primitive (rlike, ~, regexp_contains, match, ...)
  • raises a clear compile error on SQL Server and Fabric, which have no regex functions, instead of emitting SQL that cannot run
  • strips flags an adapter does not accept, rather than passing them through to be rejected by the engine

Important

Snowflake's and Dremio's regexp_like implicitly anchor the pattern at both ends and are not drop-in replacements for a substring search. Both are handled, and test_match_regex_with_context_searches_substrings is a regression test for exactly this.

Deprecated

accepted_range_with_context is deprecated and will be removed in the next release. It still works, and still honours context_columns, but running it logs a warning pointing at dbt_utils.accepted_range.

dbt_utils.accepted_range already selects * unconditionally, so unlike every other variant here this one could never enrich a sample. It could only narrow one.

To be explicit about the trade-off rather than presenting this as pure cleanup: narrowing is a real use case. Someone keeping PII out of stored samples would have been using it for exactly that, and they lose it when the removal lands. The remaining levers for that are the show_sample_rows and PII tags, disable_test_samples, and test_sample_row_count, all handled in handle_dbt_test.

Deleting it outright would have been a hard break: the test shipped in 0.23.1, and generic tests resolve during parsing, so any project still listing it in a schema.yml would fail dbt parse, compile, run and build alike, with no hint about what replaced it. Carrying it for one release costs little, because the context-column logic is now the shared get_context_select_clause helper and the shim is shorter than the code it replaces. Its emitted SQL was diffed against the 0.23.1 implementation across ten argument shapes, including a case-mismatched duplicate column, a nonexistent context column, an empty list and a bare string: identical in all ten.

The deprecation notice goes through elementary.edr_log_warning rather than exceptions.warn(), so that upgrading cannot fail a run for anyone using --warn-error. It gates on execute, so it prints once per run rather than once per node on every command that parses.

Backwards compatibility

The _with_context tests shipped in 0.23.1. Every one of them was compiled before and after this change and the SQL diffed:

Test Compiled SQL Results
not_null_with_context (with, without, and with an invalid context column) identical same
relationships_with_context identical same
expect_column_values_to_not_be_null_with_context changed (row_condition parenthesized) same unless row_condition contains a top-level or
expect_column_values_to_be_unique_with_context changed (row_condition parenthesized; window alias renamed to elementary_n_records) same unless row_condition contains a top-level or
expect_column_values_to_match_regex_with_context changed (= 0 to not (...); row_condition parenthesized) same on 13 of 14 adapters unless row_condition contains a top-level or; on Postgres a NULL value is no longer reported as a failure

The Postgres change is also a fix, and the one behaviour change a user could notice without touching their config. Master's Postgres path came from dbt_expectations, which wrapped the match in coalesce(..., 0) and so counted a NULL row as failing; every other adapter already returned NULL and ignored it. Postgres now matches them. An existing Postgres user will see such a test go green with no change to their data. test_match_regex_with_context_ignores_nulls pins this.

The two row_condition differences are a fix, not a regression. where not (...) and {{ row_condition }} parsed as (not (...) and a = 1) or b = 2 for a row_condition of a = 1 or b = 2, so those rows were previously filtered wrongly. The window-alias rename avoids a collision with a tested model that has its own column named n_records; the alias is internal and never reaches the stored sample.

One benign change: duplicate context columns now collapse, so ["ctx", "ctx"] emits select label, ctx rather than select label, ctx, ctx. The stored sample is unchanged either way, since duplicate keys collapse when the row is serialised to JSON.

Testing

Verified end to end against duckdb: all tests compile and execute, and every failure count matches expectation. Eleven new integration tests (12 in the file, 1 of which is master's) cover the new variants, the substring-search semantics, the case-insensitive flag, match_on any/all, NULL handling, and that the elementary_n_records helper column never leaks into a sample. Coverage per adapter is not uniform: the four regex tests run on 12 of 14 (T-SQL has no regex functions, so regexp_match raises there by design), not_empty_string_with_context runs on 3 of 14 (dbt types seed columns with agate Text(null_values=("null", "")), whose cast() reads an all-whitespace cell as NULL, so only the targets that bypass dbt seed can seed a genuine empty string), and the remaining five run on all 14. The regex tests on those 12 adapters are what verifies the per-adapter regex implementations.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added context-aware tests for expressions, empty strings, column comparisons, compound uniqueness, and regular-expression lists.
    • Context-aware tests now include selected context columns with failing rows.
    • Added cross-database regular-expression matching with search behavior, flags, and raw-pattern support.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved regular-expression consistency across supported database platforms.
    • Improved handling of missing or duplicate context columns and row conditions.
  • Deprecations

    • Deprecated accepted_range_with_context; use dbt_utils.accepted_range instead.

…ency

Adds five requested _with_context variants, extracts the duplicated context
column logic into one helper, and replaces the dbt_expectations regex call
with a native cross-database implementation.

New tests:
  expression_is_true_with_context
  not_empty_string_with_context
  expect_column_pair_values_A_to_be_greater_than_B_with_context
  expect_compound_columns_to_be_unique_with_context
  expect_column_values_to_match_regex_list_with_context

get_context_select_clause replaces what was the same ~20 line block copied
into every _with_context test, and would have been eleven copies with the
new ones. It also guards on `execute`: at parse time `model` is the test
node, so the old code queried a relation named after the test and warned
that every context column was missing, once per test per parse.

regexp_match is a new cross_db_util. The regex tests called
dbt_expectations.regexp_instr even though dbt_expectations is not in
packages.yml, so they only compiled for users who happened to install it.
dbt_expectations implements regexp_instr for 8 adapters while Elementary
supports 14, so the tests were also silently wrong on athena, clickhouse,
dremio and vertica, and failed outright on sqlserver and fabric. The new
macro returns a boolean rather than a position, which removes a
boolean-compared-to-integer coercion, and T-SQL now raises a clear compile
error instead of emitting SQL it cannot run.

Note for anyone touching regexp_match: Snowflake's and Dremio's regexp_like
implicitly anchor at both ends and are not drop-in replacements for a
substring search. Both are handled, and an integration test covers it.

Removes accepted_range_with_context. dbt_utils.accepted_range already
selects * unconditionally, so the variant could only ever narrow a sample,
never enrich one.

Verified end to end on duckdb. Every test that shipped in 0.23.1 was
compiled before and after and diffed: all produce identical SQL except the
regex predicate, which changes shape but not semantics.

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Thank you for raising your pull request.
Please make sure to add tests and document all user-facing changes.
You can do this by editing the docs files in the elementary repository.

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The pull request centralizes context-column selection, adds five context-aware tests, deprecates the accepted-range context test, adds cross-database regex matching, and expands integration coverage.

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Context-aware test expansion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared context-column selection
macros/edr/tests/test_utils/get_context_select_clause.sql, macros/edr/tests/test_*.sql
Adds shared column discovery, deduplication, missing-column handling, identifier quoting, parse-time behavior, prefixes, and fallbacks. Existing tests use the helper.
Cross-database regex matching
macros/utils/cross_db_utils/regexp_match.sql, macros/edr/tests/test_expect_column_values_to_match_regex_with_context.sql
Adds adapter-dispatched regex matching, flag sanitization, inline flags, raw patterns, search semantics, and adapter-specific implementations.
Context-aware test macros and registration
macros/edr/tests/test_*.sql, macros/edr/tests/test_utils/get_test_type.sql, macros/utils/common_test_configs.sql
Adds pair comparison, compound uniqueness, expression, empty-string, and regex-list tests. Registers the new tests and deprecates accepted_range_with_context.
Integration validation
integration_tests/tests/test_with_context_sampling.py
Adds coverage for sampled columns, missing context columns, new context-aware tests, and regex substring, flag, any-match, and all-match behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ca0ff

The change adds cross-database regex handling and modifies uniqueness sampling, but bounded correctness issues remain: apostrophes may generate invalid SQL, the e flag may produce incorrect matches on Snowflake and Redshift, and models with an n_records column may fail the uniqueness test. These should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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- Line 11: Update the regex_list validation in
test_expect_column_values_to_match_regex_list_with_context so scalar string
values are rejected before match_conditions is built, while preserving the
existing handling for valid regex lists and empty values.

In `@macros/utils/common_test_configs.sql`:
- Line 479: Update the quality_dimension values for
expression_is_true_with_context and
expect_column_pair_values_A_to_be_greater_than_B_with_context to accuracy,
matching their non-context equivalents and ensuring generated test metadata and
alerts are classified correctly.

In `@macros/utils/cross_db_utils/regexp_match.sql`:
- Line 102: Update the regex rendering in the regexp_match macro so regex values
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{# Fallback for adapters we have no override for. `regexp_instr` is the most
widely implemented position function, and > 0 makes it a search. #}
{% macro default__regexp_match(string, regex, is_raw, flags) %}
regexp_instr({{ string }}, '{{ regex }}') > 0

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Render regex as an adapter-aware SQL string literal.

elementary.regexp_match passes regex to adapter macros that concatenate it into single-quoted literals. A pattern such as O'Reilly can break compilation or alter parsing on non-raw branches, including BigQuery’s r'...' branch. Use adapter-specific literal escaping, and preserve Snowflake’s $$...$$ delimiter handling.

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In `@macros/utils/cross_db_utils/regexp_match.sql` at line 102, Update the regex
rendering in the regexp_match macro so regex values are escaped as adapter-aware
SQL string literals before being passed to regexp_instr, including quotes for
non-raw branches and BigQuery’s raw-string branch. Preserve Snowflake’s existing
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Confirmed: regex: "O'Reilly" emits col ~ 'O'Reilly', and is_raw on Snowflake terminates early on a pattern containing "$$". Deferring to a follow-up rather than doing it here, because a correct fix needs per-adapter literal handling and the obvious shortcut is harmful: elementary.escape_special_chars maps \ → \, which turns a pattern of \d+ into a literal backslash followed by d. The right fix escapes only the quote character in each dialect's own way ('', not '), leaves backslashes alone, and handles $$ separately on the raw path. Also pre-existing: the previous dbt_expectations.regexp_instr call interpolated the pattern the same way

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@joostboon, thanks for the detailed confirmation.

The finding is valid. The current PR does not need an unsafe partial fix.

A follow-up should render regex literals per adapter. It must escape only the SQL string delimiter, preserve regex backslashes, and handle Snowflake $$ delimiters on the raw-string path.

Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for this follow-up?


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Blocker 1: the four new regex integration tests had no skip marker, so they
would fail on sqlserver and fabric where regexp_match raises by design.
Added skip_targets for both.

Blocker 2: test_not_empty_string_with_context could never pass on a
dbt seed based target. The default seeder writes a CSV and dbt types seed
columns with agate Text(null_values=("null", "")), whose cast() checks
`d.strip().lower() in null_values`, so any all-whitespace or empty cell is
read as NULL. Verified against the real agate: '   ' casts to None. The
column was therefore all NULL, trim(NULL) = '' is NULL, nothing failed and
the status assertion blew up. Restricted to the three targets that bypass
dbt seed and preserve the value verbatim.

match_on now raises on anything other than any/all instead of silently
falling back to "or", which inverted what the test asserted. It also
accepts uppercase, which previously fell through to "or" as well.

row_condition is now parenthesized. `where not (...) and {{ row_condition }}`
turned `a = 1 or b = 2` into `(not(...) and a = 1) or b = 2`. Confirmed on
duckdb: 2 matching rows with the parentheses, 3 without.

Nits: dropped `g` from the Vertica flag alphabet, since it is a
REGEXP_REPLACE modifier and REGEXP_LIKE would reject it, which is the exact
failure the sanitizer exists to prevent. Corrected the is_raw docstring,
which claimed the literal was identical on adapters without raw-string
syntax; it is a silent no-op, and that matters where the engine processes
backslash escapes. Corrected the regexp_inline_flags comment, which named
only RE2/PCRE though it is also used for Postgres ARE and Java.

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Use a helper alias that cannot collide with model columns.

When model contains n_records, the inner query exposes both the source column and the window alias. The outer where n_records > 1 can then fail with an ambiguous-column error. Generate an alias absent from the model columns and use it in both locations. Add a fixture with a real n_records column.

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In `@macros/edr/tests/test_expect_column_values_to_be_unique_with_context.sql`
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get_context_select_clause to use a generated window-count alias that cannot
collide with any model column, and reference that same alias in the outer filter
instead of n_records. Add a fixture covering a model with a real n_records
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Remove e from the Snowflake and Redshift flags passed to REGEXP_INSTR.

e makes REGEXP_INSTR return the first capture-group position instead of the complete match position. With a(b)?, the pattern can match while the optional capture is absent, so > 0 may return false. Remove e from the supported alphabets or strip it before the call. Add a regression case for an optional capture group.

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In `@macros/utils/cross_db_utils/regexp_match.sql` at line 113, Update the
REGEXP_INSTR call in the regexp match utility to exclude or strip the e flag for
Snowflake and Redshift, ensuring it checks the complete match position rather
than a capture group. Add a regression case covering a pattern with an optional
capture group such as a(b)?.

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In `@macros/edr/tests/test_expect_column_values_to_be_unique_with_context.sql`:
- Around line 6-12: Update the uniqueness query around get_context_select_clause
to use a generated window-count alias that cannot collide with any model column,
and reference that same alias in the outer filter instead of n_records. Add a
fixture covering a model with a real n_records column and verify the query
remains unambiguous.

In `@macros/utils/cross_db_utils/regexp_match.sql`:
- Line 113: Update the REGEXP_INSTR call in the regexp match utility to exclude
or strip the e flag for Snowflake and Redshift, ensuring it checks the complete
match position rather than a capture group. Add a regression case covering a
pattern with an optional capture group such as a(b)?.

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Fixes the one CI failure this PR introduced, plus a set of correctness
issues found by running the macros rather than reading them.

postgres CI: test_expect_column_pair_values_a_to_be_greater_than_b_with_context
was 66 characters. conftest returns request.node.name verbatim as test_id and
dbt_project uses it as the seed table name, dbt's seed materialization calls
this.incorporate(type='table'), and PostgresRelation.__post_init__ rejects any
identifier over 63 characters. Both postgres jobs errored during setup with
"Relation name '...' is longer than 63 characters". Renamed to 46 characters.
Every other target passed, so this was the only PR-caused red job.

regex_list and column_list: a bare string satisfied the non-empty guard and was
then iterated one character at a time. regex_list: "^abc$" compiled to five
per-character predicates joined by or, and since ^ matches an empty position in
every value the test passed unconditionally. Reproduced on duckdb: 0 failing
rows for the string form against 2 for the correct list form. Both tests now
coerce a scalar to a one-element list, and both guard emptiness BEFORE coercing
so "" still raises rather than becoming [""].

Flag alphabets: dropped 'e' from snowflake and redshift, where it makes
REGEXP_INSTR return a capture-group position rather than the match position, so
the "> 0" that means "matched" reports a conforming row as a violation. Dropped
'g' from duckdb, which is the same bug the previous commit fixed for vertica;
confirmed against duckdb 1.5.5: "Option 'g' (global replace) is only valid for
regexp_replace".

Negated flags now raise. Stripping the '-' as if it were an unsupported letter
kept the letters after it, so flags="-i" emitted a case-insensitive match, the
exact opposite of the request. There is no portable way to honor a negation
(Postgres ARE has no (?-i), and where an alphabet carries a letter and its
opposite absent does not mean off), so this fails loudly instead.

Dremio: scoped the padding's (?s) to the padding groups. As a bare top-level
directive it ran to the end of the whole pattern, so a user's '.' silently
crossed newlines on this adapter alone. Verified the scoped form preserves
search semantics across 11 cases including anchors and top-level alternation.

quality_dimension: expression_is_true_with_context and
expect_column_pair_values_A_to_be_greater_than_B_with_context were "validity"
while the tests they mirror are "accuracy", so switching a test to the
_with_context variant moved it between dimensions. All ten entries now match
their base.

Renamed the window helper to elementary_n_records in both unique tests. A
tested model with its own n_records column produced two identically named
columns in the derived table and an ambiguous outer reference. The alias is
internal and never reaches the stored sample.

get_context_select_clause: raise instead of returning an empty select list when
a relation reports no columns, which emitted "select from (...)". Also corrected
the parse-time comment, which claimed dbt would query a relation named after the
test; get_columns_in_relation is decorated @available.parse_list, so dbt
substitutes a stub returning [] and issues no query at all.

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In `@macros/edr/tests/test_utils/get_context_select_clause.sql`:
- Line 19: Update get_context_select_clause so relation-derived column names are
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Comment thread macros/edr/tests/test_utils/get_context_select_clause.sql
joostboon and others added 4 commits September 1, 2026 11:22
Restores the test with a deprecation notice rather than deleting it outright.
Generic tests resolve during schema parsing, so deleting it would have failed
`dbt parse`, `compile`, `run` and `build` alike for any project still listing it
in a schema.yml, with no hint about what replaced it. It shipped in 0.23.1.

The shim is shorter than the code it replaces, because the context-column logic
is now the shared get_context_select_clause helper. Its emitted SQL was diffed
against the 0.23.1 implementation across ten argument shapes, including a
case-mismatched duplicate column, a nonexistent context column, an empty list
and a bare string: identical in all ten.

The notice uses log(info=true) rather than exceptions.warn(), so that upgrading
cannot fail a run for anyone using --warn-error. Defeating the purpose of the
shim to emit a tidier warning would be a poor trade.

Re-registered in both sites it needs to be in: the with_context list in
get_test_type.sql, and the elementary namespace block of common_test_configs.sql,
where its quality_dimension stays "validity" to match dbt_utils.accepted_range
and its description now leads with the deprecation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The `default_clause=none` path lists every column of the tested relation, and
did so unquoted. A mixed-case name on Snowflake (`myCol`, created quoted) folded
to `MYCOL` and failed to resolve, and a reserved name on Postgres (`order`) was
a syntax error. Both affected `expect_column_values_to_be_unique_with_context`
and `expect_compound_columns_to_be_unique_with_context` whenever
`context_columns` was omitted.

Only the introspected names are quoted. They come from the warehouse's own
metadata, so they are already in the relation's real case and quoting resolves to
the same column. The user-supplied context and tested column names are left
alone: callers write those in whatever case they like, and quoting them would
stop them matching.

Checked the one case that would have made this a regression: dbt-bigquery's
_get_dbt_columns_from_bq_table iterates table.schema at the top level and passes
sub-fields via col.fields, so it does not return dotted struct.field names that
quoting would corrupt.

`relationships_with_context`, the only caller passing a prefix, is unaffected: it
passes default_clause="child.*" and never reaches this branch.

Raised by CodeRabbit on PR #1046.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dbt renders generic-test bodies while parsing, with execute=false. A compiler
error raised there aborts every dbt command for the whole project rather than
failing the one test, and `config: enabled: false` does not save it because the
body is rendered before the node's config is consulted. Confirmed on dbt 1.12.3
with a stub generic test: `dbt parse` and `dbt ls --resource-type test` both
abort, and the body logs execute=false. The same guard the select-clause helper
already uses fixes all three sites.

- sqlserver__regexp_match / fabric__regexp_match now raise only when execute is
  true and otherwise emit a valid predicate. A SQL Server project containing a
  regex test can parse again; the node still fails with the same message when
  it runs, which is what master did.
- The negated-flag error is gated the same way. It also no longer refuses
  outright: adapters that take inline flags can express `(?-i)`, so `-` is now
  part of their alphabet and passes through. Adapters with a separate flags
  argument still refuse, because dropping `-` would enable exactly what the
  caller asked to disable.
- Dropped-flag warnings move from exceptions.warn to edr_log_warning.
  exceptions.warn is escalated to an error by --warn-error, so at parse time it
  took the project down. That contradicted the comment above it, and the
  deprecation shim had already chosen log() for this reason.
- The deprecation warning moves to edr_log_warning too, which gates on execute.
  It was printing once per node on every command that parses.

Also from review:
- Trino/Athena drop `U`. The engine is joni (Java), not RE2: joni throws
  UNDEFINED_GROUP_OPTION, and Java's `U` means UNICODE_CHARACTER_CLASS rather
  than RE2's ungreedy swap, so the letter would not even mean the same thing.
- Adds a regression test pinning that a NULL value is not reported as a regex
  failure. Behaviour is unchanged from this branch and correct, but Postgres
  differed on master (its dbt_expectations path wrapped the match in
  coalesce(..., 0) and counted NULL rows as failing), so the contract is worth
  asserting. Postgres users will see such a test go green with no data change.
- Widens the is_raw note: Redshift consumes backslashes too and has no raw
  form, Snowflake is exposed whenever is_raw is false, and the Databricks and
  Fabric Spark adapters inherit Spark's exposure.
- Notes that Postgres ARE takes embedded options only at the very start of a
  pattern, so flags cannot be combined with a pattern already starting `(?...)`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adding `-` to eight alphabets let malformed forms through, because `-` is an
ordinary character to the dropping loop. RE2, Java and joni all require a letter
after it and reject a doubled one. Confirmed against DuckDB's RE2: `(?-i)` and
`(?i-s)` parse, while `(?i-)`, `(?-)` and `(?--)` are rejected.

Two checks, both gated on execute like the others:

- Refuse `--` or a trailing `-` on input, matching the rule dbt_expectations
  encodes as `^(?!.*--)[-imsU]*(?<!-)$`. A leading `-` stays valid, that being
  the clear-what-follows form.
- Drop a dangling `-` left behind by the letter loop. The input check cannot
  catch this one: `i-Z` is well formed until `Z` is dropped as unsupported,
  leaving `i-`. Clearing a flag the engine does not have is a no-op, so the
  operator goes with it.

Also reconciles three comments that the previous commit left contradicting the
code: the claim that `-` is always rejected rather than dropped, the older
paragraph arguing no dialect can honor a negation, and the docstring rule that
negation follows from taking inline flags. It does not: Postgres takes flags
inline and still cannot express one. The rule is whether the adapter's alphabet
lists `-`.

Adds a harness covering the sanitizer across alphabets, including the parse-time
paths and the drop-induced dangling operator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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