docs: document numeric target workflow

[TonisOrmisson]

Summary

• document numeric COMPUTE create-versus-replace binding and sequential IF semantics;
• document RECODE ... INTO create versus canonical replace behavior, including explicit ELSE = SYSMIS for pre-provisioned targets;
• link the normative SQL-profile provisioning rules for MySQL/MariaDB/Dolt;
• add the disposable local SQLite measurement matrix and observed plan identities.

Scope

Documentation only: docs/transformations.md. No production code, API, schema, dependency, fixture, CI, or benchmark artifacts changed.

The measured evidence is local SQLite only at Python 63a66d6589aeb8fdc4820d5e7217fc13c61ef3b9 with specification reference 930345b922af4f43b0e622be02d4b12ebfeb08eb. It makes no service-latency or release-speedup claim.

Verification

• git diff --check
• disposable matrix: 2 workloads × 2 target modes × 2 sizes × 2 public APIs; one counted apply, one warm-up, five timed fresh applies per cell; exact row/NULL/binary64, identity/catalog/audit, and forbidden-artifact assertions passed;
• .venv/bin/python -m pytest -p no:cacheprovider tests/test_conditional_inplace_transform.py::test_exact_bounded_program_applies_data_and_both_catalogs tests/test_conditional_inplace_transform.py::test_injected_boundary_failure_leaves_no_partial_apply tests/test_cli.py::test_cli_installs_schema_and_applies_plan_or_spss — 6 passed;
• .venv/bin/python -m pytest -p no:cacheprovider -m 'not services' — 408 passed, 9 skipped, 53 deselected.

Review notes

No source tests or production behavior changed. Local read-only review completed with no findings after fixing recipe comments and documenting the measured fixture cycle/metadata. Please do not auto-merge; maintainer review/merge remains required.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance on creating and replacing numeric targets using COMPUTE, IF, and RECODE ... INTO.
  • Documented metadata preservation, NULL handling, and backend-specific support.
  • Added examples for create-or-replace and pre-provisioned recode workflows.
  • Added bounded SQLite performance measurements, including methodology, timings, execution counts, plan identities, and limitations.

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Walkthrough

The documentation adds numeric target creation and replacement semantics, backend support rules, examples, and bounded SQLite measurements with methodology, results, plan identities, and limitations.

Changes

Numeric target documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Numeric target semantics and backend support docs/transformations.md	Documents COMPUTE, IF, and RECODE ... INTO target creation and replacement behavior, including NULL handling, metadata preservation, examples, canonical plan modes, and backend-specific support.
Bounded SQLite measurement record docs/transformations.md	Documents the measurement methodology, environment, SQLite results, operation counts, plan identities, and measurement limitations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6ac83

The new numeric-target guidance and bounded SQLite measurements are documentation-only, but the published measurement record may not fully represent its stated input cycle and does not clearly define fixture isolation for each trial. Clarifying these details would make the results reliably interpretable.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the documentation change for the numeric target workflow, which matches the pull request's main objective.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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In `@docs/transformations.md`:
- Around line 211-213: Update the 100-case workload description around the input
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