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askToLiveByPillar and listEvents hold the main thread #8064

Merged masoncrew opened this 11d agoin answer to trevatoowner

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`listEvents` and `askToLiveByPillar` now read from indexes instead of scanning or sorting. I found both causes from query plans on a migrated database, because the sandbox can't reach production's data. So I haven't measured the 50 ms target against production's rows.

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masoncrew opened this 11d ago

listEvents and askToLiveByPillar now read from indexes instead of scanning or sorting. I found both causes from query plans on a migrated database, because the sandbox can't reach production's data. So I haven't measured the 50 ms target against production's rows.

The new test asserts on the query plan of the SQL these functions actually run. The plans use no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE. I did not check that the new test fails without the fix. I ran bun x tsc --noEmit, bun scripts/gate.ts and 59 tests across the new test, the existing ask-to-live, pillars, events, migrations and metrics-delivery suites; all pass. scripts/fast.ts named 1,269 test files for this diff, so I ran only those suites rather than the full run.

What changed

New migration 20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index (additive, pinned) adds three indexes:

- event(repo_id, kind, seq): listEvents with repoId and kind used to walk every event of the repository by seq and drop the other kinds. Callers include the pull-idle read, egress grants, the vision-kept list and the events page with ?kind=. - event(kind, seq): listEvents by kind alone used to sort every event of that kind. clog_tick is one such caller. - pull(merged_at) WHERE merged_at IS NOT NULL: mergedPulls in src/core/pillars.ts used to read every issue of the repository to find the few merged in the last 7 days. It now starts from the merged pulls (INDEXED BY pull_merged_at CROSS JOIN issue), newest first, with no sort.

test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts is the new test described above.
AGENTS.md gains one rule: a new read of a growing table names its index in its migration and proves it from the plan.

What I chose not to do

Next two worst: I can't name them, because I can't read the live log or its stack field from here. The check needs someone with the log to run it against the log's stack field.
Off-thread reads as the rule: I didn't adopt it. The rule I added says to add the best index first, then a summary table kept as rows change, and only then a worker. Both stalls here were missing indexes, and an off-thread read of an unindexed scan is still a scan.
INDEXED BY risk: INDEXED BY pull_merged_at makes the query error if the index is absent. Migrations run at boot, so it is always present.

To try it: bun test test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts.

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Closes #8061

masoncrew commented 11d ago

What changed

New migration 20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index (additive, pinned) adds three indexes:

test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts is the new test described above.
AGENTS.md gains one rule: a new read of a growing table names its index in its migration and proves it from the plan.

What I chose not to do

Next two worst: I can't name them, because I can't read the live log or its stack field from here. The check needs someone with the log to run it against the log's stack field.
Off-thread reads as the rule: I didn't adopt it. The rule I added says to add the best index first, then a summary table kept as rows change, and only then a worker. Both stalls here were missing indexes, and an off-thread read of an unindexed scan is still a scan.
INDEXED BY risk: INDEXED BY pull_merged_at makes the query error if the index is absent. Migrations run at boot, so it is always present.

To try it: bun test test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts.

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masoncrew commented 11d ago

This pull makes two slow reads use an index instead of walking whole tables. They are listEvents by kind (newest first) and the merged-pull window in askToLiveByPillar. Of the four failures in the last check, I fixed one: the digest-query test. I believe the other three are unrelated to this change and did not fix them.

What the pull does

Event reads: the migration 20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index adds event_repo_kind_seq on event(repo_id, kind, seq) and event_kind_seq on event(kind, seq). An event of one kind comes back already in order, so there is no scan and no sort.
Merged-pull window: it reads through the pull_merged index that already exists, so the pull no longer adds a second index on the same column.
Test: test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts checks the query plans of both reads, with no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE. AGENTS.md says a new read of a growing table needs the same.

The fix

The first push added a second index on pull(merged_at), which test/home-since.test.ts rejects (pull_merged already covered it). I removed that index from the migration, pointed src/core/pillars.ts and the test at pull_merged, and regenerated the migration pin.
bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit pass here. test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts and test/home-since.test.ts pass, 10 tests.

Still failing, not fixed

Egress grants: the two "egress grants in the terminal" tests in test/egress-admin.test.ts still fail here on this branch with my fix. A grant, 100.89.95.68:8101, is present when the test expects none. I couldn't check whether they also fail without this change, because checking out the earlier commit was blocked by my uncommitted edits. I believe they are unrelated, since this change touches only event and pull reads, not egress grants.
Checks queue: I did not run "checks > when a slot frees, the newest of several queued checks runs first". It looks unrelated to this change.
If the next check still shows the egress or queue failures, they need a separate look.

Not done

No summary table or worker, since the index removes the scan.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 11d ago— before the latest push

The diff at this head does not do what the pull says. Its only change is test/security-floor-routes.test.ts, where the floor check now sends 8 requests at a time. The migration, the index changes in src/core/pillars.ts, test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts and the AGENTS.md rule that the description and the earlier builder comments describe are not in it. Nothing in the diff touches listEvents or askToLiveByPillar, so the issue (both reads hold the main thread) is not addressed.

Fix first: restore the index work, meaning the event(repo_id,kind,seq) and event(kind,seq) indexes in a pinned additive migration, the pull_merged read in mergedPulls, and a test that asserts the query plans have no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE. Or, if this test change is meant to be its own pull, split it out and give it its own issue.

If the batching stays, it has three problems:

Batching 8 requests at a time against a server in the same process cannot cut wall time. The rendering is on the one thread, and the added comment says so itself. The 9_000 ms timeout is a workaround and not a fix.
floor() now returns a status that no caller reads, which is dead data.
The test still has no assertion that would fail if the floor headers were missing or the reads were slow. The pull states no reason for the change, and it is not evidenced here.

I could not check the preview against the issue, because the change under review does not touch the code the issue names.

masoncrew commented 11d ago

I changed nothing this turn. The head of this branch (fdf74073) doesn't match what the review describes, so I think the review was run against a different head.

Against origin/main, the branch has these five changes:

Migration: 20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index is additive. It adds event_repo_kind_seq on event(repo_id, kind, seq) and event_kind_seq on event(kind, seq). Its pin is src/core/migration-pins/20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index.pin.
mergedPulls: src/core/pillars.ts now reads through the existing pull_merged index. The first push added a duplicate pull(merged_at) index, and the check failed on it.
Test: test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts asserts from the query plans that listEvents by kind and the merged-pull window have no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE.
AGENTS.md: it carries the rule that a new read of a growing table names its index and shows it from the query plan.
Security-floor test: test/security-floor-routes.test.ts has no diff on this branch. I never touched it, so the batching, the 9_000 ms timeout and the unused status return aren't mine. If a head with that change exists, it came from somewhere other than this branch.

The earlier run of the egress-grants tests (test/egress-admin.test.ts) still failed here. Those tests are separate from this change (#8083 already tracks the same failure on main), so I left them alone.

masoncrew commented 11d ago

The review describes a diff that isn't on this branch, so there is nothing to restore. I made no changes this turn and pushed nothing.

The remote branch mason/8061-asktolivebypillar-and-listevents-hold-th is at fdf74073, and my local branch matches it. Its diff against origin/main is the index work:

Migration: 20261102150000-event-kind-seq-merged-pull-index adds event_repo_kind_seq on event(repo_id, kind, seq) and event_kind_seq on event(kind, seq). It is additive and its pin is committed.
mergedPulls: src/core/pillars.ts reads through the existing pull_merged index (INDEXED BY pull_merged). I did not add a second index on pull(merged_at).
Test: test/hot-reads-indexed.test.ts asserts from the query plans that listEvents by kind and the merged-pull window have no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE.
AGENTS.md: it gains the rule that a new read of a growing table names its index and shows it from the query plan.

test/security-floor-routes.test.ts has no diff on this branch, so the batching, the 9_000 ms timeout and the unused status from floor() are not in this pull. I think the review was run against a different head, possibly another pull's. If so, please re-review fdf74073.

gate.ts, tsc --noEmit, hot-reads-indexed.test.ts and home-since.test.ts passed on the last push. The two "egress grants in the terminal" tests in test/egress-admin.test.ts fail here and are unrelated to these reads. I didn't confirm they also fail without this change, but #8083 on main already tracks that failure.

sentinelcrew commented 11d ago

Handed to a person by the crew: two follow-up runs on the review's changes ended without a push, so no more start here until you say what to try. (The forge posts this under the reviewer's name; the reviewer did not write it.)

masoncrew commented 11d ago

I merged main into this branch and pushed it. Git reported no conflicts, and test/security-floor-routes.test.ts has no conflict markers.

Checks run: tsc --noEmit is clean, the gate script printed nothing, and test/security-floor-routes.test.ts passes (3 tests).
Not run: I did not run the rest of the suite. The forge's check runs it on this push.
Test log: during the floor test the log showed posix_spawn 'git' failing with ENOENT (git isn't available in this sandbox). That test still passed.
My changes: the pull still does what it did before: askToLiveByPillar and listEvents read from indexes, and the existing pull_merged index is reused instead of adding a duplicate.

masoncrew commented 11d ago

I didn't change or push anything this time. The branch already contains the latest main (e1769cf3), which I merged and pushed in the previous turn (2b361945). Git reports "Already up to date" and no conflicts, and the working tree is clean and matches the remote branch.

test/security-floor-routes.test.ts passed after that merge. If the forge still reports a conflict, it was probably checking the branch before that push landed.

junipercrew Approved 11d ago

Approved. The diff matches the description: an additive pinned migration adds event_repo_kind_seq and event_kind_seq, mergedPulls walks the existing partial index pull_merged (its WHERE merged_at IS NOT NULL is in the query, so INDEXED BY is valid), and the plan test checks no SCAN and no TEMP B-TREE. No new surface, so the security and both-doors checks do not apply. The preview answers 200 at /.

Two things I would do next:

Show that the test fails without the fix. Drop the indexes locally and confirm the plan assertions go red; the builder says this was not checked.
Measure on a production-sized event table. The 50 ms claim is unmeasured, and the same plan test should cover the next hot reads the issue left unnamed.