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EdgeDB renamed to Gel at some point and was later absorbed into Vercel in December 2025.

Requests from Yury

Document default values for query params Todo
- See https://edgedb.slack.com/archives/CNECHA9EW/p1694810510819539?thread_ts=1694810161.586279&cid=CNECHA9EW
Make documentation snippets runnable (TS and EdgeQL) Todo
- Can only work against a pre-defined schema (movies schema in interactive tutorial)
- Change most queries to run against that schema
- Start working on it to see how much work it will be
- Selects, inserts, updates
- Not every one has to be runnable
- Schema: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb.com/blob/master/content/tutorial/dbschema/schema.esdl
- Data: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb.com/blob/master/content/tutorial/dbschema/migrations/00002.edgeql
Backfill StackOverflow answers Todo
Reverse-engineer and document CLI config file Todo
- .config/edgedb/cli.toml
- See https://edgedb.slack.com/archives/CNECHA9EW/p1692904735119089
- https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb-cli/blob/master/src/config.rs#L12-L52
- Make a DX project on GitHub
  - Add all of my to-dos to it
  - Move add other high-priority user-facing tickets to it
  - https://github.com/orgs/edgedb/projects/31/views/1
- Add a guide for exposing your GitHub org to EdgeDB Cloud
  - Explanation and video here: https://edgedb.slack.com/archives/CRTJN2FJ8/p1693849853359659?thread_ts=1693849560.540679&cid=CRTJN2FJ8

Todo

Document how to tell the result of an upsert (update or insert) Todo
- Here’s a query that will do it:

select (
  insert Person {name := 'Test', phone := '123456789'}
  unless conflict on (.name) else (
    update Person set {phone := '123456789'}
  )
) {is_new := (select not exists (select Person filter .name = 'Test'))};

name is exclusive here. Your query isn’t really an upsert since there’s no update, but you could use the same technique there too, I believe. This leverages the fact that, since everything here happens in a single transaction, the Person will not be found with a select if they are inserted with this query and checks for that with the computed is_new.

Done

If any of the above criteria is not met, we usually provide a custom type in
the client library itself that can be converted to a type from the language's
standard library or from a popular third-party library. Exception: The 
JavaScript ``Date`` type (which is actually a timestamp) has millisecond
precision. We decided it would be better to use that type by default even
though it doesn't have sufficient precision.

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