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Signed-off-by: Kenneth Obsequio <k80308392@gmail.com>

utils/fieldValues.util.js

@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ const getFieldValues = (Model, logTag, options = {}) => async (req, res) => {
       if (!allowedFields.includes(field) && !dateFields.includes(field))
         return R.error(res, "Invalid or restricted field.", 400);
 
+      // ─── ENUM / BOOLEAN fields — return the canonical value set, not a DISTINCT
+      //     scan of current rows. A DISTINCT query silently omits valid values
+      //     that just don't happen to exist yet (e.g. is_banned when nobody is
+      //     currently banned), which produces an incomplete filter picklist.
+      const rawType = Model.rawAttributes[field]?.type;
+      const typeKey = rawType?.constructor?.key || rawType?.key;
+      if (typeKey === "ENUM") {
+        return R.success(res, "Field values retrieved.", rawType.values ?? []);
+      }
+      if (typeKey === "BOOLEAN") {
+        return R.success(res, "Field values retrieved.", ["true", "false"]);
+      }
+
       if (auditByFields.includes(field)) {
         // Filtering must match the audit column's real (bigint) id — returning
         // just the display name here previously made buildWhere() compare a

utils/paginate.util.js

@@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ async function paginate(model, req, {
   const jsonbExclude = excludeAttributes.filter((f) => f.includes('.'));
   const jsonbAttr = jsonbColumn ? excludeJsonbPaths(jsonbColumn, jsonbExclude) : null;
 
+  // The stripped jsonbAttr projection is aliased to the same name as the raw
+  // column (e.g. "personal_info") — without excluding the raw column too, it
+  // gets selected twice under the same alias, which Postgres/CockroachDB
+  // accept in a plain SELECT but reject as ambiguous the moment that alias is
+  // referenced in ORDER BY (e.g. sorting a jsonb-path column).
+  if (jsonbAttr && jsonbColumn && !topLevelExclude.includes(jsonbColumn)) {
+    topLevelExclude.push(jsonbColumn);
+  }
+
   const attributes = modelToAttributes(model, { exclude: excludeAttributes, jsonbSchemas, context });
   const ALLOWED_FIELDS = attributes.map((a) => a.field);
   const computedFieldKeys = computedAttributes.map((c) => c.key);