A grant has always had an access column and `inviteGrant` has always written
READ into it. That was the right way to ship the first version: "this release
never grants write" was a property of the file rather than a promise in a
comment. Remove it deliberately now, so somebody sharing their record can offer
reading or reading plus adding.
The level is a required argument to `inviteGrant` and is defaulted in exactly
one place, the invite schema, where an omitted field becomes READ. An older
client's payload therefore stays valid and stays narrow, and the domain module
never guesses a level nobody named.
There is no upgrade path and that is the decision, not a gap. A grant is READ
or WRITE from the moment it is offered and stays that way until somebody ends
it. Widening a live one would change what the delegate agreed to without asking
them again, and their consent is half of what makes a write grant legitimate.
The way up is a new invitation, accepted again.
The audit row and the wide event carry the level: "who was given what, and by
whom" is the question that row exists to answer.
Adds AuditLog.actorUserId (migration 0294) and threads it centrally, out
of the wide-event context the acting-account resolver already stamps. No
call site passes an actor, so no route can forget one.
NULL keeps meaning "acted for themselves" — the reading every existing
row carries. The threading fills the column only when a request resolved
an acting account AND the row is being filed under that account, so a
self-action, a refusal, and a delegate's row about themselves all stay
NULL rather than acquiring an id that would rewrite what the history says.
Delegated reads coalesce to one row per owner, delegate and day, through
a partial unique index and an insert that expects to lose the race. The
alternative is a row per request on the busiest table in the schema and
an activity view made of identical lines.
The column carries no foreign key, against the grain of user_id beside
it: SET NULL there erases an account from its own history, while here it
would turn "the delegate opened this record" into "the owner opened this
record". An id that no longer resolves reads as a deleted account; an id
that silently became NULL reads as a lie.
Marc-André Bombeck