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+-- Widen tickets.category to allow lead-capture categories posted by the DOT
+-- compliance checker (insurance, business close-out, truck-sale routing).
+-- The CHECK constraint previously only allowed the support-widget categories,
+-- so these INSERTs failed with a 500.
+
+ALTER TABLE tickets DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS tickets_category_check;
+
+ALTER TABLE tickets ADD CONSTRAINT tickets_category_check CHECK (
+  category = ANY (ARRAY[
+    'question',
+    'support',
+    'issue',
+    'service_request',
+    'quote',
+    'insurance_lead',
+    'business_closeout',
+    'truck_sale_quickcash',
+    'truck_sale_marketplace'
+  ]::text[])
+);