Answer the catalogue as a delta when the terminal sends a revision

Every pull was a full snapshot, so a shop with a thousand products
re-sent all of them to correct one price. The response now carries a
revision the terminal stores and hands back, and a pull that supplies
one gets only what moved: the product row, its row at that outlet, or
its stock ledger. Stock is included because a shop's count drifts from a
till's on every sale rung at another counter, and a delta that ignored
it would let that drift persist until someone forced a full pull.

The dangerous part is the flag, not the filter. A response marked
is_delta:false tells the terminal to withdraw every product it does not
mention — so a filtered result carrying that label empties the shelf.
Both are now derived from one value, and there is no path through the
function that filters without also setting the flag.

Everything ambiguous resolves toward the snapshot. A revision that is
malformed, empty, or issued to another outlet yields a zero cutoff and a
complete response; the opposite would leave a terminal permanently
missing changes with nothing to show for it. The revision advances only
on the final page, so a terminal that abandons a paginated pull cannot
end up holding one that claims it saw pages it never received. And the
stamp is taken a second in the past, because a product written during
the same second the query ran would otherwise fall on the wrong side of
the next cutoff and be skipped for good.

A delta still cannot withdraw a deleted product — removing a row from
productlocations leaves no tombstone — so a periodic pull without a
revision is what collects those.

Verified against the live outlet: a full pull of 12, a delta returning
only the one product whose price had changed, and pagination that stays
exact now that productid <= 0 is excluded in SQL rather than after the
LIMIT.

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Registrations are **insert-if-absent** — never an update, so a profile
corrected at head office is not reverted by a terminal replaying an old
capture.
- **Catalogue** answers `is_delta: false` and is therefore a full snapshot. The
terminal withdraws every product a snapshot omits, so this must stay true
while the query returns everything stocked at the outlet.
- **Catalogue** answers a snapshot or a change set, decided by the `since`
revision — see below.
- **Barcodes** come from `products.productsku` — there is no barcode column.
Scanning at the till matches on it, so SKUs must be the scannable code for
barcode scanning to work.
## Catalogue: snapshots and deltas
`GET /catalogue?store_id=1135` with no `since` returns a **full snapshot**. The
response carries a `revision`; the terminal stores it and sends it back next
time as `since=`, and then gets only what changed.
A product is included in a change set when any of three things moved: the
product row (name, tax, brand), its row at this outlet (price, availability), or
its stock ledger. Stock counts because a shop's figure drifts from a till's on
every sale rung at another counter, and a delta that ignored it would let that
drift persist until someone forced a full pull.
**The one rule that matters.** A response marked `is_delta: false` is treated as
a snapshot, and the terminal **withdraws every product it does not mention**. A
filtered result labelled `false` therefore empties the shop's shelf. The filter
and the flag are computed from a single value in `Catalogue()` — there is no
path that filters without also setting the flag, and that is deliberate.
**A revision that cannot be read falls back to a full snapshot.** Malformed,
empty, or issued to a different outlet — all yield a zero cutoff and a complete
response. The other direction would leave a terminal permanently missing every
change it had not already seen, with nothing to indicate it.
**The revision only advances on the final page.** A terminal that abandons a
paginated pull half way gets back the revision it already had — or an empty one,
meaning the next pull is a snapshot. Both are recoverable; a prematurely
advanced revision is not.
**A delta cannot withdraw a deleted product.** A row removed from
`productlocations` leaves no tombstone, so nothing tells the change set to
retire it. Only a snapshot collects those, which is why a terminal should pull
without a revision periodically — the morning import is the natural moment.
## Terminal health
Every till publishes a heartbeat to `nearle/pos/{loc}/{terminal}/health` every
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## Not built
- **Catalogue deltas.** Every pull is a full snapshot. Fine for a few hundred
products, worth revisiting at a few thousand.
- **Loyalty coming back down.** The uplink deliberately carries no points or
spend — those belong to the bill stream, which is idempotent and sees every
counter. Nothing yet computes them centrally and sends them to the tills, so