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A bad column in `$where` fails HTTP 400 with a structured\n`errorCode: query.soql.no-such-column` body whose `data.dataset` field leaks an **internal physical\ndataset id** (`\"foxtrot.15655\"`) distinct from the public 4x4 (`erm2-nwe9`) — the same table can be\nnamed two different ways depending on which layer of the stack is complaining. `$where=created_date\nbetween '2026-10-01T00:00:00' and '2026-10-02T00:00:00'` works correctly with single-quoted\ntimestamp literals and no timezone. `$q=pothole` (free-text) matches on indexed descriptor fields,\nnot column-exact (returned `complaint_type: \"Street Condition\"`, `descriptor: Pothole`), i.e. it is a\nsearch, not a filter. An **unrecognized param** (`totally_bogus_param=xyz`) is rejected outright:\n`{\"error\":true,\"message\":\"Unrecognized arguments [totally_bogus_param]\"}`, HTTP 400 — NYC validates\nstrictly rather than silently dropping unknown args.\n\n**Pagination / $limit**: no `$limit` → exactly 1000 rows, no truncation flag of any kind. `$limit=50000`\nis honored (no small server clamp): streamed past 12,626 rows / 20,000,000 bytes before our own\n20 MB client cap cut the transfer — the limiter here is us, not Socrata.\n\n**Dataset IDs that change**: the historical resource id `fhrw-4uyv` (\"311 Service Requests from 2010 to\nPresent\" before NYC split the table by decade/year) still answers `GET\n/resource/fhrw-4uyv.json?$limit=2` with **HTTP 200 and live, current rows** (e.g. a 2026-10-11 pothole\ncomplaint) — not a 404, not a redirect, not a deprecation notice. Its own `api/views/fhrw-4uyv.json`\nmetadata resolves to the *current* dataset's name (\"311 Service Requests from 2020 to Present\",\n`erm2-nwe9`). The old 4x4 has been silently aliased onto the new backing table with zero signal to a\ncaller still using the old id from an old bookmark or tutorial.\n\n**App-token / throttling**: no `X-App-Token` was sent on any call. A 10-request rapid burst\n(`$offset=1..10`, ~1 req/s) returned **200 on every call**, and no response ever carried an\n`X-RateLimit-*` or `Retry-After` header — a keyless caller gets zero advance warning of its budget and\nonly learns it exists when a 429 eventually arrives.\n\n**Metadata freshness split**: `api/views/erm2-nwe9.json` → `rowsUpdatedAt: 1791855485`\n(2026-10-13T01:38:05Z) matches the catalog discovery API's `updatedAt` for the same id exactly, and\nmatches the live `X-SODA2-Truth-Last-Modified` response header — this one is honest and current. But\nthe same metadata document's `publicationDate` (2025-12-23T23:01:17Z) and `viewLastModified`\n(2025-12-29T15:25:00Z) are both frozen ~9.5 months in the past: the *data* is updated continuously,\nthe *view's own description/definition* was last touched in December 2025, and nothing distinguishes\nthe two kinds of \"last modified\" without reading both fields and knowing which one means what.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-13, UTC 18:22Z–18:35Z, `curl` GET against `data.cityofnewyork.us`,\n`api.us.socrata.com`, no key, default UA. 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