Summary

• Closes sqlite3 does not apply limit? #956. SQLite (and several other drivers) silently stripped the user's LIMIT clause and substituted the app's row cap, so SELECT ... LIMIT 10 returned 10,000 rows.
• Removes the fetchFirstPage / fetchNextPage / fetchRows / fetchRowCount family from the driver protocol and replaces it with executeUserQuery(query:rowCap:parameters:). User SQL passes to the database unchanged; the row cap is enforced at the result level instead of by query rewrite.
• Replaces the broken Load More button on user-query tabs with a Showing N rows (truncated) [Fetch All] banner. Table-tab pagination is unchanged.

What changed

• Driver protocol (PluginDatabaseDriver, DatabaseDriver, PluginDriverAdapter): six paged methods removed, executeUserQuery added with a Strategy B default (run query, slice client-side if rows exceed cap, set isTruncated). PluginKit ABI bumped from 8 to 9.
• Plugins: stripLimitOffset regex removed from SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, ClickHouse, DuckDB, LibSQL, CloudflareD1. SQLite override uses Strategy A (collect from streamRows, break at cap). All other SQL plugins inherit Strategy B from the protocol default. MSSQL/Oracle no longer inject ORDER BY 1 / ORDER BY (SELECT NULL) into user SQL. All plugins bumped to ABI 9 in Info.plist.
• MCP: MCPConnectionBridge.executeQuery now calls executeUserQuery and reads isTruncated from the driver instead of computing it from a +1 probe. The timeout race and cancelQuery wiring are unchanged.
• App layer: MainContentCoordinator+QueryHelpers and +LoadMore updated; loadMoreRows() deleted; fetchAllRows() routes through executeUserQuery(rowCap: nil). pagination.hasMoreRows semantics narrow to "result was truncated".
• Settings: enforceQueryResultLimit renamed to truncateQueryResults, queryResultLimit to queryResultRowCap. No fallback decode. Custom values revert to default on first launch.
• UI: Status bar banner replaces the Load More + Fetch All button row on query tabs.
• Docs: docs/features/data-grid.mdx Progressive Loading section rewritten as Result Truncation. Stale "sorting is local to the loaded page" line corrected.
• Tests: Regression coverage in TableProTests/Core/Database/... for SQLite covering user LIMIT, OFFSET, CTE, UNION, subquery, truncation flag, and Fetch All.

Test plan

Mandatory regression on SQLite (use the issue reporter's database or any 1000+ row table):

• SELECT * FROM t LIMIT 10 returns exactly 10 rows, no truncation banner
• SELECT * FROM t LIMIT 5 OFFSET 50 returns 5 rows starting at row 51
• WITH cte AS (SELECT * FROM t LIMIT 3) SELECT * FROM cte returns 3 rows
• SELECT * FROM t on a 50k-row table shows "Showing 10,000 rows (truncated)" + Fetch All
• Click Fetch All in the truncated case loads all rows

Cross-plugin smoke (whichever you have access to): same LIMIT 10 query against MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, MSSQL, Oracle, ClickHouse, DuckDB, LibSQL, CloudflareD1, BigQuery.

Settings:

• On first launch, custom queryResultLimit value is gone (revert to 10,000 default; per CHANGELOG)
• Toggle "Truncate query results" off, run no-LIMIT query → no banner, all rows return
• Set Row cap to 5,000 → banner shows "Showing 5,000 rows (truncated)"

Non-regression:

• Table-tab pagination (page nav, page size, sort, filter, FK navigation) works as before
• Streaming export of a query with a user LIMIT respects the LIMIT
• Cancel (Cmd+.) interrupts a long-running query

MCP path:

• Raycast / external client SELECT * FROM huge_table LIMIT 5 returns 5 rows, is_truncated: false
• Same query with low maxRows (e.g. 10) returns 10 rows, is_truncated: true
• Query with trailing semicolons (SELECT 1;;;) executes cleanly

External plugins:

• Separately distributed plugins (Oracle, DuckDB, MSSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, LibSQL, Cassandra, Etcd, CloudflareD1, DynamoDB) need re-release at ABI 9. Plugin Manager should mark old versions as outdated.

Manual screenshot follow-up: re-capture images/progressive-loading.png and the dark variant after build (UI changed from button row to banner row).