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Match vanilla's default CommandBehavior: no SingleResult/SingleRow - #196

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The one-row and query paths hardcoded SingleResult (plus SingleRow for First/FirstOrDefault), where vanilla strips both by defaultSettings.UseSingleResultOptimization/UseSingleRowOptimization are opt-in, and the default exists for a reason: with those flags SqlClient cancels the remainder of the batch on close, silently discarding trailing errors.

Found by the Dapper test suite's QueryFirst_PerformanceAndCorrectness, then pinned with a side-by-side repro on one connection:

vanilla Dapper.AOT before after
QueryFirst("select *; raiserror(...)") throws SqlException no exception throws SqlException
async QueryFirst over 100k rows fast 568ms 57ms

(The suite's 500k-row variant burned ~4.5 minutes per provider before.)

Fix: SequentialAccess only, i.e. vanilla's effective default. If opt-in optimization knobs are ever wanted, they belong in SingleFlags — noted in the comment there. Runtime-library change only; full unit suite green on net10.0/net48, goldens untouched.

The one-row and query paths hardcoded SingleResult (and SingleRow for
First/FirstOrDefault), where vanilla Dapper strips both by default -
Settings.UseSingleResultOptimization/UseSingleRowOptimization are
opt-in, and the default exists for a reason: with those flags SqlClient
cancels the remainder of the batch on close, silently discarding
trailing errors, and the combination measured ~10x slower on the async
one-row path. Found by the Dapper test suite
(QueryFirst_PerformanceAndCorrectness): 'select *; raiserror(...)'
produced no exception under Dapper.AOT while vanilla threw SqlException
side-by-side on the same connection, and QueryFirstAsync over a wide
result burned minutes.

With SequentialAccess-only (vanilla's effective default): both sync and
async error cases throw as vanilla does, and async-full drops 568ms to
57ms in the repro. If opt-in knobs are ever wanted they belong in
SingleFlags, as noted there.
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* Start the Dapper/Dapper.AOT parity accounting under notes/

The goal on record: enable Dapper.AOT in the Dapper test suite, announce
types via attributes, and have it swallow everything - AOT-clean.

- parity.md: the feature table, with impact/complexity per gap (several
  'gaps' score zero because the concept doesn't exist under AOT, e.g.
  the ref-emit plan cache)
- tokens.md: @ids expansion, {=literal}, ?foo? pseudo-positional, param
  filtering
- type-vs-generic.md: the announced-types design space for Type-based APIs
- test-suite-audit.md: the Dapper tests as acceptance corpus, sequenced

* GetTypeDeserializer is valid API, not cache plumbing

With announced types it's the same dispatch map (boxed materializer), and
its generic strengthening already exists as GetRowParser<T>. The real hole
is the write side: CreateParamInfoGenerator has no generic counterpart -
recorded the GetParameterBinder<T> proposal, and the question of blessing
CommandFactory<T>/RowFactory<T> as the supported surface. ReadChar and
friends are plain AOT-safe statics, nothing to do.

* Scope the accounting to the public API and observable behavior

PublicAPI.Shipped.txt is the checklist; the contract is what reaches the
provider and what comes back, never Dapper's internals. Cuts both ways:
the dynamic row needs behavioral fidelity only (the type is internal),
while the public infrastructure statics ARE in scope because extenders
call them.

* Record the decision: internals-asserting tests get adjusted, not maintained

* New work item: warn (new DAP id) on use of the has-no-meaning APIs

Plan-cache surface, CommandFlags.NoCache, possibly ConnectionStringComparer:
supported-and-meaningless under AOT, which is a different statement to
DAP001's unsupported-but-meaningful. Warning, not error - the code runs.

* Measurement caveat: build-time DAP counts are an upper bound

Some failure modes are silent until executed - handled means intercepted,
not correct. Only the DB-backed test run catches silent divergence.

* First harness baseline: 'handled 396 of 396' alongside 96 compile errors

Two root-cause generator bugs (array-of-anonymous parameter emits the
display string and wrecks the parse; inaccessible row types are emitted
rather than refused), plus two scorecard honesty problems (the denominator
excludes unattempted APIs; handled does not mean compiles) and a zero-
analyzer-diagnostics anomaly to re-check once the compile is clean.

* Generator audit: the capture model snapshots Roslyn nodes; fix first

Both generators' cached SourceState hold IMethodSymbol/ITypeSymbol/
Location (MemberMap even holds an IOperation), and the pipeline combines
the raw CompilationProvider into the source output - so it behaves as a
full-recompute generator with a memory leak. Recorded as a sequencing
gate ahead of the gap-closing features, with the fix shape that worked
for protobuf-net (plain equatable model, span-based locations, separate
diagnostics branch, shape-enforcing test).

* Record the agreed plan: gap table, then generator model, then features

The line that resolves the phase-1/2 tension: nothing that adds
parse-time state lands before the model rework completes; refusals and
scorecard fixes are allowed ahead of it, which is what lets phase 1 see.

* Round 2 numbers, and log the modern-interceptor-syntax work item

* Round 3: the suite compiles with AOT enabled (4 fix PRs + 2 severity downgrades)

* Scoreboard: all three TFM legs compile; local SQL Server available

* Work item: [UnsafeAccessor] may lift the accessibility refusals (net8+)

* Round 4: the honest scorecard says 53%, not 100%

* Harvest the skip breakdown; flag the DAP016 corpus-shape decision

* Round 5: first behavioral run - 84 failures, every one compiled clean

* Note that aot-harness is deliberately local-only

* Phase 2 log: approach and increments

* Phase 2 log: increment 1 done

* Phase 2 log: 3a done

* Phase 2 log: 3b done

* Phase 2 log: 3c-i done; two cached symbols remain

* Phase 2 log: result-side plan done; one symbol left

* Phase 2 log: cached model fully plain; only increment 4 remains

* Phase 2 log: complete - PRs #187 + #188

* Phase 2 log: caching tests landed

* Phase 2 log: readonly-field quirk fixed (#190)

* Round 6: DAP051 + restructure takes interception to 68.1%

* Round 6b: 612/760 behavioral; failures track interception growth honestly

* DynamicParameters design: delegate to the bag; needs one small Dapper API

* Round 7: DynamicParameters at 73.5%; First-pipeline drain divergence found

* Round 7b: 612/762; every failure class maps to a planned feature

* Interceptor-syntax migration: soft-target requirement recorded

* Tokens: runtime-SQL design - per-factory memoized role scan

* Record the feature-detection rule (DAP052) in the design note

* Round 8: CommandBehavior parity fix (PR #196)

* Round 8b: 616/762, suite loop 17s

* Round 9: list expansion lands (PR #197), 638/762

* Round 10: custom parameters + the two bugs they uncovered, 658/793

* Round 11: dynamic-record fidelity, 672/793

* Sync with main; point parity rows at their open PRs

The table lands on main via #186; from here each feature PR flips its own
cells, so the table and the merge history cannot drift apart. Rows with an
open PR say so, and the flip to a settled status is that PR's job.
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