The Inbox sample

A multi-tenant customer-support inbox: organizations, agents, customers, tickets, messages, KB articles, and pgvector embeddings for similarity search. Every recipe page on this section pairs a buggy implementation with a SqlProof property that catches it — and a fix migration you can apply to watch the property go green.

Schema

organizations
  └── org_members ─→ auth.users
  └── tickets
        ├── customers
        ├── messages
        │   └── message_embeddings  (vector(384))
        ├── ticket_events
        └── ticket_tags ─→ tags
  └── kb_articles
        └── kb_article_embeddings   (vector(384))

Ten tables. Source: examples/inbox/schema/001_initial.sql.

Run it

pip install sqlproof psycopg
supabase start
export SUPABASE_DB_URL='postgresql://postgres:[email protected]:54322/postgres'
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -f examples/inbox/schema/001_initial.sql
pytest examples/inbox/tests -v    # 9 failures + 1 skipped

Apply any fix migration to watch one recipe go green:

psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -f examples/inbox/schema/003_fix_tickets_rls.sql
pytest examples/inbox/tests/test_tickets_rls.py -v

Recipes

Recipe	Property pattern	Bug summary
Vector search leaks across tenants	RLS regression	`SECURITY DEFINER` similarity-search RPC missing `org_id` filter
Correlated RLS subqueries	RLS regression	`EXISTS` subquery doesn’t correlate to parent row
Non-idempotent status trigger	Idempotency	Trigger fires on every edit, not just on transitions
LEFT JOIN collapsed by WHERE	Aggregation	Dashboard drops zero-bucket status rows
Internal messages leak to customers	RLS regression	Policy doesn’t gate `is_internal = true` on customer path
Pagination breaks on tied scores	Round-trip (paginated set equality)	`ORDER BY score` has no tiebreaker (+ JOIN fanout when articles have multiple embedding chunks)
Equivalent query optimization	Equivalence / migration safety	INNER JOIN drops zero-ticket agents that v1’s correlated-subquery shape preserves
Stateful ticket lifecycle	Stateful (sequence-dependent)	`reopen_ticket` doesn’t clear `resolved_at`
Mass assignment without WITH CHECK	RLS regression (write side)	UPDATE policy lets members change any column of their own row
Overly permissive DELETE policy	RLS regression (write side)	DELETE policy with `USING (true)` lets viewers eject admins

For smaller RLS bug classes that don’t justify a full case study (over-permissive USING (true), UPDATE-without-SELECT silent fail, security_invoker view bypass, user_metadata trust, infinite policy recursion, plus schema-level audits like “RLS enabled on every public table”), see the Supabase RLS bug classes reference page.

Caveats

The buggy code in this sample is intentional. Do not deploy this schema as-is.
Embeddings in tests are random — these recipes test schema-level invariants, not retrieval quality. Plugging in a real embedding model is a separate concern.
Recipes 1 and 6 depend on a pgvector parser workaround (vector_strategy(384) in tests/_helpers.py) until SqlProof issue #69 lands.