Phase 2: unified query language spanning ClickHouse and Tantivy

Replaces the separate SQL-only /query and text-only /search endpoints
with one pipe-syntax query language (plus raw SQL escape hatch) that
compiles to a single IR and execution plan across both backends, so a
query like `message:"connection refused" | stats count by host` runs
as one request instead of two disjoint tools.

- api/internal/querylang: lexer -> ast -> parser -> ir -> planner ->
  executor, each layer independently tested.
- Execution generalizes Phase 1's proven Tantivy-prefilter pattern
  into a 4-way routing table (pure ClickHouse / text-only / text +
  aggregation / raw SQL passthrough).
- Unified web query page and `sentryctl query`, both hitting the same
  POST /query endpoint.
- Benchmarked against a real 1,022,000-row dataset
  (hack/benchmark-fixture); caught and fixed a real bug where the
  Tantivy prefilter cap (10,000) produced an IN-clause exceeding
  ClickHouse's default max_query_size -- lowered to 5,000, documented
  in docs/query-language-design.md and docs/phase-2-runbook.md.
- docs/query-language-reference.md: customer-facing syntax reference.
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## What "done" looks like for Phase 1
A Windows Event Log entry and a Linux journald entry should both be
queryable via SQL (the ClickHouse path) and via free-text search (the
Tantivy path), from the same UI, within a few seconds of being generated.
**Status: shipped.** A Windows Event Log entry and a Linux journald entry
are both queryable via SQL (the ClickHouse path) and via free-text search
(the Tantivy path), from the same UI, within a few seconds of being
generated. Verified end-to-end on the live stack, including the same
`record_id` coming back from both query paths for the same record — see
`/docs/phase-1-runbook.md`.
Non-goals for this phase (same "resist scope creep" discipline as Phase 0):
no alerting, no dashboards, no SPL-like query layer, no multi-tenancy, and
no unified query experience — two separate boxes on two separate pages is
correct for Phase 1; unifying them is Phase 2's job.
ETW and WEF (Windows Event Forwarding) were *designed* in this phase but
not required to be running for "done": ETW ships behind a feature flag
most environments won't enable (it needs elevated privileges), and WEF's
receiver-side was explicitly deferred rather than built. Only the Event
Log source needed to actually be running end-to-end, and did. The
Windows-specific agent code itself (`EvtSubscribe`, ETW, service
registration) remains unverified on real Windows — no Windows toolchain
existed anywhere in the environment this was built in; flagged
prominently in `/agent/README.md` and the runbook.
ETW and WEF (Windows Event Forwarding) are *designed* in this phase but not
required to be running for "done": ETW ships behind a feature flag most
environments won't enable (it needs elevated privileges), and WEF's
receiver-side is explicitly deferred rather than built now — see
`/docs/phase-1-runbook.md` for both. Only the Event Log source needs to
actually be running end-to-end for this phase to count as done.
## What "done" looks like for Phase 2
A single query bar in the web UI and a single `sentryctl query` command
can express filter + free-text + stats in one query (e.g. `service=api |
where status>=500 | stats count by host | sort -count`, or
`message:"connection refused" | stats count by host`), execute correctly
against both ClickHouse and Tantivy in one compiled plan, and return in
well under a second for a 1M-row fixture dataset (rough benchmark, not a
formal SLA — see `/docs/phase-2-runbook.md` for the actual measurement).
Raw ClickHouse SQL remains available as an escape hatch, compiling to the
same execution plan/IR as the pipe syntax so performance doesn't depend
on which syntax a query uses.
Non-goals for this phase (same "resist scope creep" discipline as every
phase so far): no alerting, no dashboards, no multi-tenancy — this phase
is the query layer only. The two separate placeholder pages/endpoints
from Phase 0/1 (`/query` raw-SQL-only, `/search` free-text-only) are
retired, replaced by one `/query` endpoint and one query page.
See `/docs/query-language-design.md` for the grammar, IR, and
ClickHouse/Tantivy routing strategy, and
`/docs/query-language-reference.md` for the user-facing syntax reference
once built.
## When in doubt
Ask before: changing the pinned stack, adding a new external dependency