drizzle-orm + better-sqlite3 fails to link: undefined _js_pg_client_new from drizzle/better-sqlite3/driver.js #602

Summary

A minimal drizzle-orm fixture using the better-sqlite3 driver (no postgres dep at all) fails at link time with Undefined symbols: _js_pg_client_new referenced from node_modules/drizzle-orm/better-sqlite3/driver.js. The pg-driver code path is reachable from the better-sqlite3 entry but its FFI symbol isn't being linked in.

Reproducer

tests/release/packages/drizzle-sqlite/ fixture (added to the release-sweep harness this cycle):

// entry.ts
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/better-sqlite3";
import { sqliteTable, integer, text } from "drizzle-orm/sqlite-core";
import { eq } from "drizzle-orm";
import Database from "better-sqlite3";

const sqlite = new Database(":memory:");
const db = drizzle(sqlite);

const users = sqliteTable("users", {
    id: integer("id").primaryKey(),
    name: text("name").notNull(),
    age: integer("age").notNull(),
});

sqlite.exec(`CREATE TABLE users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL, age INTEGER NOT NULL)`);
db.insert(users).values([{ id: 1, name: "alice", age: 30 }]).run();
const all = db.select().from(users).all();
console.log(`count=${all.length}`);

{
  "dependencies": { "drizzle-orm": "^0.36.0", "better-sqlite3": "^11.0.0" },
  "perry": { "compilePackages": ["drizzle-orm"] }
}

perry compile entry.ts -o out

Linker error tail

Linking (with stdlib)...
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
  "_js_pg_client_new", referenced from:
      _perry_fn_node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js__drizzle in node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js.o
      _perry_fn_node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js__drizzle in node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js.o
      _perry_fn_node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js__drizzle in node_modules_drizzle_orm_better_sqlite3_driver_js.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1
Error: Linking failed

Why this matters

Pure sqlite-only fixture; no pg import, no postgres backend in scope. Either drizzle's better-sqlite3 entry transitively imports pg code that codegen incorrectly emits FFI calls into, or perry's compilePackages emits FFI calls for symbols that the well-known-binding logic doesn't know to pull in.

Same root cause may affect any drizzle dialect that lives alongside other dialects in the npm package's source tree.

Environment

• Perry 0.5.699
• drizzle-orm ^0.36.0, better-sqlite3 ^11.0.0
• macOS 26.4 / arm64
• Discovered via scripts/release_sweep.sh --tier=3 (tests/release/packages/drizzle-sqlite/)