docs: split T3 marks, add online-safety column, state the unix philosophy - #57
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…ophy A wall of ❌ read as "unsupported" when most T3 rows are scope boundaries, not gaps. T3 now carries three marks — ⚪ (no online-safety problem to solve), 🔵 (a different tool class owns it), ❌ (no online mechanism exists in PostgreSQL) — and every matrix table gains an "Online-safety problem?" column whose "No" cells name the tool class users should reach for instead. The same boundary is now stated loudly as the design stance it is: vision.md, README.md, and capabilities.md call out the Unix philosophy — do one thing (online table-shape change under concurrent load) and do it perfectly — so scope limits read as intent, not missing features.
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Summary
docs/capabilities.mdrendered every T3 row with the same ❌, so the page visually read as "pg-sprite doesn't support a bunch of things" when most of those rows are deliberate scope boundaries — operations that either have no online-safety problem to solve or belong to a different tool class. This PR makes the distinction visual and explicit, and states the underlying design stance — the Unix philosophy — loudly in the prominent positioning docs.What
EXCLUDEconstraints,USING INDEXon a partitioned parent).docs/vision.md: a dedicated paragraph after the intro, reconciling "one tool for all schema changes" with "do one thing" (depth across every table-shape change, never sprawl across object types), plus a framing line opening "What pg-sprite is not".README.md: a paragraph after the planner positioning, pointing at capabilities.md.docs/capabilities.md: a framing line in "What pg-sprite is — and why it exists" — the page is the map of where the one thing ends.Why
The capabilities page is the doc we point users at for "does pg-sprite support this?". A scope boundary presented with the same mark as a hard limitation misrepresents the tool: only two rows in the whole matrix are genuinely impossible today, and the rest of T3 is design intent. Naming the Unix philosophy in the vision and README makes that intent legible before a user ever reaches the matrix, and the new column answers the follow-up question ("then what do I use?") inline.