diff --git a/sidecar/db/collections/schema.ts b/sidecar/db/collections/schema.ts
index e83ffbd..cffd7d5 100644
--- a/sidecar/db/collections/schema.ts
+++ b/sidecar/db/collections/schema.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { pgTable, uuid, text, timestamp, index, primaryKey } from 'drizzle-orm/pg-core';
+import { pgTable, uuid, text, timestamp, index, primaryKey, foreignKey} from 'drizzle-orm/pg-core';
 import { generations } from '../generations/schema';
 
 /**
@@ -29,15 +29,30 @@ export const collections = pgTable('atelier_collections', {
  */
 export const collectionItems = pgTable('atelier_collection_items',
   {
-    collectionId: uuid('collection_id')
-      .notNull()
-      .references(() => collections.id, { onDelete: 'cascade' }),
-    generationId: uuid('generation_id')
-      .notNull()
-      .references(() => generations.id, { onDelete: 'cascade' }),
+    collectionId: uuid('collection_id').notNull(),
+    generationId: uuid('generation_id').notNull(),
     addedAt: timestamp('added_at', { withTimezone: true }).notNull().defaultNow(),
   },
   (table) => [
+    /*
+      Both foreign keys are NAMED, because drizzle generates names over Postgres's 63-character identifier
+      limit — 65 and 64. Postgres stores the truncated form, drizzle keeps comparing against its own longer
+      one, and every `db:push` drops and re-adds constraints that are already identical. Four statements per
+      push, on every host, for ever.
+
+      It read as harmless noise until a deploy plan said "expect no changes" and this made that impossible
+      to satisfy on all five hosts, forcing the deploy agent to overrule its own instructions.
+    */
+    foreignKey({
+      name: 'fk_atelier_collection_items_collection',
+      columns: [table.collectionId],
+      foreignColumns: [collections.id],
+    }).onDelete('cascade'),
+    foreignKey({
+      name: 'fk_atelier_collection_items_generation',
+      columns: [table.generationId],
+      foreignColumns: [generations.id],
+    }).onDelete('cascade'),
     // The composite key is what makes adding an image twice a no-op instead of a duplicate.
     primaryKey({ columns: [table.collectionId, table.generationId] }),
     index('atelier_collection_items_generation_idx').on(table.generationId),