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Ragnor Comerford
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feat(engine): WriteTxn - validate schema + open each data table once per write (#298)
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* docs(rfc-013): step-3b handoff + §4.1 corrections (validated)

Add the RFC-013 write-path handoff doc, and correct §4.1's WriteTxn sketch from the
4-subagent validation against current code:
- HandleCache → handle-threading (forward the commit-return handle; a version-keyed
  cache misses because HEAD walks N→N+1→N+2 across staging + index-build commits).
- "re-resolution unrepresentable" softened to "pinned base for the pre-commit phase +
  named fresh re-reads at the commit/fork boundary" — three reads (commit-time OCC, the
  live-HEAD drift probe, fork authority) are irreducible correctness machinery.
- WriteParams DOES carry a session field; the real constraint is "stage off an open
  Dataset," so attach the Session by opening read-style then staging off it.

* test(engine): RED step-3b capture-once fitness asserts + open_count probe

Two write-path cost gates, RED today, GREEN after the WriteTxn lands:
- write_validates_schema_contract_once: a write must validate the schema contract
  once (3 read_text + 2 exists). Today re-validates at every resolve point —
  measured 12 read_text / 9 exists (~4 validations) via CountingStorageAdapter
  (zero production change; the write twin of the read-path schema-once test).
- keyed_insert_opens_table_at_most_once: a keyed single-table write must open its
  table <=1x. Today measured 10 opens.

Adds an exact open-CALL probe: open_count + record_open() on QueryIoProbes (mirroring
probe_count/record_probe), called at both open chokepoints; surfaced as
IoCounts.open_count. forbidden_apis guarantees every write open routes through them.

* feat(engine): WriteTxn carrier + open_write_txn (3b scaffolding)

The capture-once write transaction (RFC-013 step 3b): WriteTxn{branch, base:
Snapshot, session} + Omnigraph::open_write_txn, which validates the schema contract
once and pins the base snapshot + the shared per-graph Session.

Landed as reviewed scaffolding (gated #[allow(dead_code)]); the next pass threads
Option<&WriteTxn> through open_for_mutation_on_branch / staging on the non-strict
bound-branch path — opening the base once from the pinned entry with the warm session
(a session-aware pinned opener returning a SnapshotHandle) and skipping the per-table
schema re-validation — to turn the two RED cost gates green. Strict ops / fork / the
commit-time OCC re-read keep their fresh reads.

* test(engine): scope write-path open_count to data tables (RFC-013 step 3b)

The keyed_insert_opens_table_at_most_once gate asserted open_count <= 1, but
open_count was a single unclassified counter: record_open() fires in both
open chokepoints, and open_dataset_tracked also opens the internal/system
tables (__manifest via layout.rs, _graph_commits/_graph_commit_actors via
commit_graph.rs). So the count conflated data-table opens with the publisher
CAS + commit-graph append opens — making the gate measure the wrong quantity
and unreachable by threading alone (the manifest publish keeps it >1 regardless).

Scope it by table class, mirroring the read-side counters (which already split
by URI prefix via separate wrappers): record_open(uri) classifies the open's
last path segment and feeds data_open_count vs internal_open_count. IoCounts
exposes both; the gate now asserts data_open_count <= 1.

Re-baselined: a single keyed insert is data_open_count=4 / internal_open_count=6
(sum 10, the old conflated value). The RED target for the WriteTxn threading is
now the real data-table-open count (4 -> 1), with internal opens correctly out
of scope. Pure test-harness/instrumentation; no production behavior change
(classification runs only inside the probe closure, skipped when no probes are
installed).

Also marks #297 (optimize-vs-write race) as landed in the step-3b handoff —
this branch is already stacked on origin/main after it merged.

* feat(engine): validate the schema contract once per write (RFC-013 step 3b)

A single mutate/load re-validated the schema contract ~4 times: at the entry
(ensure_schema_state_valid), per-table in open_for_mutation_on_branch
(resolved_branch_target), at the commit-time OCC re-read (fresh_snapshot_for_branch),
and in the publisher's index-build snapshot (snapshot_for_branch). Each validation
is 3 read_text + 2 exists on the storage adapter — O(touched resolve-points) of
redundant contract I/O on every write.

Thread the already-landed WriteTxn carrier through the write path: capture
`txn = open_write_txn(branch)` once at the mutate/load entry (the single validation),
then source the per-table entry and the commit/publish snapshots from `txn.base`
instead of re-resolving. When `txn` is None (branch merge, schema apply, tests) every
function is byte-identical to before.

- mutate_with_current_actor / load_jsonl_reader capture txn once (replacing the
  entry-point ensure_schema_state_valid) and thread Some(&txn) through
  execute_*/open_table_for_mutation, commit_all, and
  commit_updates_on_branch_with_expected.
- open_for_mutation_on_branch sources (snapshot, branch) from txn.base/txn.branch
  when present — skipping resolved_branch_target's re-validation. The OPEN itself is
  unchanged (still HEAD via open_dataset_head_for_write), and strict ops keep
  ensure_expected_version. Schema-once applies to strict and non-strict alike; the
  data-open collapse is a separate change.
- commit_all uses fresh_snapshot_for_branch_unchecked (the OCC manifest re-read minus
  the schema re-validation) when txn is present; the drift guard is unchanged.
- prepare_updates_for_commit uses txn.base for the publisher index-build snapshot.

fresh_snapshot_for_branch{,_unchecked} now read the manifest directly via
ManifestCoordinator instead of resolve_target. The OCC re-read consumes only the
Snapshot (per-table location + version), which ManifestCoordinator::open().snapshot()
produces identically — but resolve_target additionally opened the commit graph (a
spurious _graph_commits.lance exists probe the OCC read never consults). Dropping that
load is a pure read-cost reduction for every fresh-snapshot caller (commit_all's None
arm, optimize, repair, fork reclaim); the returned Snapshot is unchanged and the read
is a fresher cold manifest re-read, so the OCC freshness guarantee is preserved.

Greens write_validates_schema_contract_once (3 read_text / 2 exists, was 12/9).
keyed_insert_opens_table_at_most_once stays red (data_open_count=4) — the open
collapse lands next. Full engine suite green otherwise.

* feat(engine): open each data table once per write (RFC-013 step 3b)

A single keyed-node mutate opened its data table 4 times: accumulation (to read
.version()), staging (the real write base), the commit-time drift guard (to read
live HEAD), and the publisher's index build (reopen at the just-committed version).
Collapse three of the four — using the WriteTxn carrier threaded for schema-once —
so a write opens each touched data table at most once.

- #1 accumulation: open_for_mutation_on_branch now returns
  (Option<SnapshotHandle>, expected_version, full_path, table_branch). On the txn's
  own branch, a non-strict (Insert/Merge) op needs no open — the only thing the
  caller reads is .version() (the CAS fence), which is exactly the pinned base
  version (entry.table_version). So skip open_dataset_head_for_write and source the
  version from txn.base. The node insert path already discarded that handle; the
  edge path resolves a pinned read only when non-default cardinality needs it.
  STRICT ops and any write that must fork still open live HEAD + ensure_expected_version.
- #3 commit drift guard: commit_all reads live HEAD via
  entry.dataset.dataset().latest_version_id() — a cheap manifest-pointer probe off
  the already-open staging handle (the same primitive ManifestCoordinator::
  probe_latest_version uses) instead of a fresh open_dataset_head_for_write. The
  head<current / head>current drift classification is byte-identical.
- #4 index build: commit_all now returns the per-table post-commit_staged
  SnapshotHandle map; commit_updates_on_branch_with_expected threads it into
  prepare_updates_for_commit, which builds indices on the threaded handle instead of
  reopening at the same just-committed version. Absent a handle (other writers,
  inline/delete tables) the reopen path is byte-identical.

When txn is None (branch merge, schema apply, tests) every function opens and checks
exactly as before. Greens keyed_insert_opens_table_at_most_once (data_open_count 4->1).
Schema-once gate stays 3/2. Full engine suite + failpoints (recovery sidecar lifecycle)
green.

* refactor(engine): name the write-path open/commit returns (RFC-013 step 3b)

The open collapse left two positional returns that are easy to mis-thread and
carry an unwritten contract: open_for_mutation_on_branch's
(Option<SnapshotHandle>, u64, String, Option<String>) and commit_all's 5-tuple
(updates, expected_versions, sidecar_handle, guards, committed_handles). Replace
both with named structs so each field reads at the call site and the Option's
contract is documented, not folklore.

- OpenedForMutation { handle, expected_version, full_path, table_branch } with a
  require_handle(ctx) helper for the callers that must have a handle (strict ops,
  the fork path, every no-txn caller — branch merge, the seed test). The handle is
  None only on the non-strict-txn open-skip path (collapse #1); require_handle
  panics with a named context if that contract is ever broken.
- CommittedMutation { updates, expected_versions, sidecar_handle, guards,
  committed_handles } for commit_all; consumers destructure into the same local
  bindings they already used, so the publish/sidecar/guard-hold logic is unchanged.
- A debug_assert in open_table_for_mutation pins the skip contract: a missing handle
  is legal only on the non-strict txn path, so a future strict arm returning None
  trips in debug builds instead of handing None to a require_handle consumer.

Pure refactor — no behavior change. Both cost gates stay green (schema 3/2,
data_open_count=1), full engine suite + lib (162) green.

* refactor(engine): drop the unearned session field from WriteTxn (RFC-013 step 3b)

The open collapse greens data_open_count<=1 by SKIPPING the accumulation open,
PROBING live HEAD with latest_version_id, and REUSING the commit_staged handle —
none of which consume a session. The captured WriteTxn.session was therefore dead
(`#[allow(dead_code)]`): unearned surface a reviewer rightly flags.

Remove it. The carrier is now {branch, base} — exactly what schema-once + the open
collapse use. Step 5 (PublishPlan unification) makes WriteTxn the non-optional
publish carrier and is the right home for session-aware base opens, where the
warm-session benefit on the single remaining open — an object-store (S3) phenomenon,
invisible on local FS — can be earned by its own cost gate rather than carried dead
through this PR.

No behavior change; both cost gates stay green (schema 3/2, data_open_count=1).

* docs(rfc-013): mark step 3b DONE — schema-once + open-collapse shipped, session deferred to step 5

* docs(rfc-013): capture the write-base-staleness convergence (§1d)

Three findings this cycle share one root — the write base is a stale, un-probed,
un-classified pin (the read path probes; the write path returns the warm
coordinator snapshot):

- #298 edge-@card stale-read regression (cursor High / codex P1, VALID): collapse #1
  made the cardinality scan read txn.base instead of live HEAD, so a concurrent edge
  is uncounted and a max can be exceeded. Fix on #298: restore the live-HEAD read +
  deterministic test + correct the single-writer doc comment.
- The structural liability underneath: no unified write-validation read-set —
  endpoint/cardinality/uniqueness each pick freshness ad hoc (warm/pinned/live),
  the same cardinality check forks mutation-vs-loader, none re-validated at commit.
- The served-strict-write stale-view false-fail (validated on prod + a #[ignore]
  repro): a strict update/delete false-fails ExpectedVersionMismatch after an external
  optimize advance — the write-side mirror of #297/§6.6. The naive blanket probe is
  proven wrong (breaks the cross-process lost-update OCC contract).

All three converge on Design A (step 5): open_txn's warm probe makes the base fresh,
the op-class-aware precondition (derive maintenance vs logical from Lance per-version
transaction metadata — no parallel marker) fast-forwards maintenance and fails logical,
and §7.1's read-set-in-CAS unifies + re-validates the validation read-set. §8 records
the #298 follow-up, the widened §7.1 scope, and the step-5 two-test acceptance contract.

* test(engine): RED — edge @card must scan live HEAD, not stale txn.base (#298)

Regression guard for the cursor-High/codex-P1 finding on #298: 3b's collapse #1
made the non-strict edge-insert cardinality scan read the pinned txn.base instead
of live HEAD (edge_cardinality_read_handle), so a concurrent edge committed after
txn capture is uncounted and a @card max is silently exceeded (invariant 9).

Deterministic two-handle test (no failpoint): handle A commits WorksAt(Alice->Acme)
to the @card(0..1) max; stale handle B (never read since) inserts a second WorksAt
for Alice. B's coordinator is stale by construction (the write path doesn't probe),
so B scans txn.base (Alice has 0) and wrongly commits the 2nd edge. RED: the insert
that must be rejected currently succeeds (panics at unwrap_err). Goes green when the
scan reads live HEAD.

* fix(engine): scan live HEAD for edge @card, not the pinned txn.base (#298)

3b's collapse #1 skips the non-strict edge accumulation open, so edge_cardinality_
read_handle reopened the edge table at the pinned txn.base for the @card scan. Since
cardinality is validated once (never rechecked at commit), a concurrent edge committed
after txn capture was uncounted and a @card max could be silently exceeded (invariant
9) — the cursor-High/codex-P1 regression on #298. Pre-3b the scan read live HEAD (the
mutation's own open_dataset_head_for_write handle).

Restore the live-HEAD read: take the table LOCATION from the pinned entry (stable
across versions) and open the dataset at its current HEAD via open_dataset_head_for_
write. Gate-safe — the data_open_count / merge-insert-only gates are node inserts; the
edge cardinality path (non-default @card only) is untouched by them, and the extra
live-HEAD open is exactly the pre-3b shape. Also drops the dead None-fallback's schema
re-validation (greptile P2, auto-resolved). The residual validate->commit TOCTOU is the
pre-existing §7.1 gap (RFC-013 step 4), recorded in handoff §1d/§8.

Turns cardinality_rejected_for_stale_handle_after_concurrent_edge_commit green;
validators / write_cost / writes / consistency / end_to_end / branching all green.

* docs(dev): link handoff docs from index

* docs(engine): tighten 3b claims to match the code (#298 review)

Review caught several comments/docs overclaiming what the code does (the session
drop + the #298 cardinality fix left stale/too-strong wording). No logic change.

- open_write_txn doc: drop the stale "shared per-graph Session" (WriteTxn no longer
  carries one); scope "once" to the table-touch hot path and note edge/load RI
  validation still re-resolves (→ step 4 §7.1) + the session-aware open is step 5.
- edge cardinality call-site comment: it said the scan uses a "pinned txn.base" — it
  now opens LIVE HEAD (#298); corrected.
- write_cost.rs: "opens the base once (with the shared Session)" → session-aware base
  open is deferred to step 5.
- data_open_count completeness (instrumentation.rs + write_cost.rs): forbidden_apis
  only keeps engine code OUTSIDE the storage layer on the chokepoints; table_store.rs
  is allow-listed and holds direct Dataset::opens for branch-management ops (not the
  keyed-write hot path the gate measures). Narrowed the claim accordingly.
- handoff §4: "schema once / open once" is the node hot path (the two gates); edge
  endpoint + loader RI/cardinality still re-validate and read warm — #298 un-regresses
  cardinality only, it does NOT close write-validation freshness (that's step 4 §1d/§7.1).

build clean; write_cost / validators / forbidden_apis green.
2026-06-23 21:27:31 +02:00
Ragnor Comerford
6d4606a830
fix(engine): optimize survives a cross-process write race on the same table (#297)
* test(engine): cross-process optimize-vs-write race — RED

Two regression tests for the prod bug: a direct `optimize` process racing a
served write on the same table fails, because the in-process write queue does
not serialize across processes and the data-table optimize path has no retry.

- optimize_survives_concurrent_insert_advancing_manifest: a concurrent insert
  advances the manifest while optimize is paused between compact and publish;
  optimize's equality-CAS publish then fails "expected X but current Y".
- optimize_survives_concurrent_delete_before_compaction: a concurrent delete
  commits before optimize compacts; Lance rebases the compaction past it
  cleanly, so optimize again fails the publish CAS (the genuine Lance
  Rewrite-vs-Rewrite overlap is rarer and shares the internal path's retry).

Both fail today with ExpectedVersionMismatch. Adds the `optimize.before_compact`
failpoint seam + a wait_for_sidecar helper; serializes the optimize failpoint
tests (shared failpoint name). The fix lands next.

* fix(engine): optimize survives a cross-process write race on the same table

The data-table optimize path trusted the in-process write queue and skipped a
retry, so a CLI `optimize` racing a served write (separate processes = separate
queues) failed: either the Lance Rewrite lost ("preempted by concurrent Update")
or the manifest publish lost the strict equality CAS ("expected X but current Y").

Unify both compaction paths on the internal path's reopen+replan shape, with a
two-level retry that matches the two failure points:

- Outer loop (reopen+replan): a genuine Lance Rewrite-vs-Update/Delete same-
  fragment conflict means our compaction did not commit — reopen at the new HEAD
  and re-plan. Lance rebases the common disjoint case (a concurrent insert/delete
  on other fragments) for free, so this fires only on real overlap.
- Inner loop (Phase C, monotonic publish): the manifest advanced between our
  compaction and our publish. The compaction is already committed at Lance HEAD N,
  so we must NOT reopen (that trips the HEAD>manifest drift guard on our own work).
  Re-read the current manifest version C: if C >= N the manifest already includes
  our compaction (versions are linear) — no-op; else fast-forward to N. Monotonic,
  not the strict equality CAS that manufactured the conflict.

The Phase-A sidecar is written once and reused across reopen attempts (every
Phase-B commit is content-preserving, so recovery rolls the observed HEAD forward
or safely rolls the compaction back). The in-process queue is kept — it is now an
in-process contention reducer, not the cross-process correctness guard. Shares the
COMPACTION_RETRY_BUDGET constant + is_retryable_lance_conflict with the internal
path; adds is_retryable_manifest_conflict for the publish loop. No writer_epoch.

Turns the prior commit's two race tests green.

* docs(rfc-013): two-op-class principle + the found+fixed optimize-vs-write race

§6.6 records the maintenance vs logical op-class distinction (maintenance commutes
→ Lance rebase + reopen/replan + monotonic manifest fast-forward, no writer_epoch;
logical → strict cross-process OCC + epoch) and the prod optimize-vs-served-write
race that motivated it, now landed. Adds the matching mechanic row to §4.2.

* fix(engine): retry must not misclassify optimize's own HEAD drift

Review catch on the cross-process optimize fix: the outer retry loop re-ran the
`lance_head > manifest` drift guard every iteration. After a partial Phase-B commit
(the auto_cleanup strip or compaction commits, then a later op hits a retryable
conflict), the reopened attempt saw HEAD ahead of the manifest — from OUR own
sidecar-covered work, not an external writer — and deleted the sidecar + returned
`skipped_for_drift`, stranding uncovered drift that then needs `repair`.

Track `head_advanced` (did one of our Phase-B ops already commit). The drift guard
now fires only when `!head_advanced` (genuine pre-existing external drift); once we
have advanced HEAD, a reopened HEAD>manifest is our work that the monotonic publish
fast-forwards. The no-op early-return likewise publishes prior committed work instead
of dropping it when `head_advanced`.

Regression test `optimize_retry_does_not_misclassify_own_head_drift` injects one
retryable reindex conflict after the compaction commits (new `optimize.inject_
reindex_conflict` seam); red→green verified by negative control (reverting the gate
reproduces `skipped_for_drift: Some(DriftNeedsRepair)`).

Also de-flake `optimize_survives_concurrent_insert_advancing_manifest`: pause at
`before_compact` (not post-compact) so the concurrent insert lands while HEAD==
manifest — otherwise it could race optimize's committed-but-unpublished compaction
and hit the write-path "HEAD ahead of manifest" guard.

* fix(engine): optimize publish converges on retry-budget exhaustion

Review catch (greptile): the monotonic Phase-C publish loop returned an error on its
final iteration's retryable manifest conflict, even though that conflict can itself
mean a concurrent writer published a version that already includes our (content-
preserving) compaction — i.e. the postcondition ("the manifest reflects our
compaction") is already met. Recovery covered it (no data loss), but the operator
saw a spurious error and had to re-run.

Restructure the loop to re-read `current` on every retryable conflict and, on budget
exhaustion, do a final `current >= state.version` convergence check before surfacing
the error — the §6.6 "postcondition is the state, not winning the CAS" principle.
Factor the repeated current-version read into `current_manifest_version`.
2026-06-22 13:05:28 +02:00
Ragnor Comerford
5cfae9acc1
docs(rfc-013): latency = (serial_hops + ops/concurrency)·RTT — concurrency-cap correction + Lance-metadata comparison (#292)
* feat(engine): compact the internal __manifest/_graph_commits tables in optimize

`optimize` iterated node/edge catalog tables only, so the two internal system
tables (`__manifest`, `_graph_commits`) accumulated one fragment per commit and
were never compacted -- making every write's metadata scan O(fragments), which
grows forever on a long-lived graph (RFC-013 step 2).

`optimize_all_tables` now also compacts both internal tables via a new
`compact_internal_table`. They are not catalog-tracked (readers open them at
their latest Lance HEAD), so it is a much simpler path than `optimize_one_table`:
compact in place, no manifest publish (nothing to publish to), no recovery
sidecar (a single atomic Lance commit -- no HEAD-before-publish gap), and no
optimize_indices (they carry no Lance index, only object_id's unenforced-PK
metadata). No application lock: Lance's compact_files auto-retries its Rewrite
against any concurrent writer (the canonical LanceDB pattern; Rewrite vs Append
is compatible, vs Update a retryable same-fragment conflict Lance rebases), and a
coordinator refresh afterwards makes the warm handle observe the compacted HEAD.

Compacts both tables even though Phase 7 (iss-991) will later fold _graph_commits
into __manifest -- a one-call throwaway for the full interim win; __manifest
compaction is also the prerequisite for Phase 7's graph_head contention. Cleanup
(version GC) of the internal tables is deliberately NOT included here: it needs
the Q8 cleanup-resurrection watermark first (deferred).

maintenance.rs: optimize now returns 6 stats (4 data + 2 internal); adds
optimize_compacts_internal_tables (sheds fragments, leaks no recovery sidecar,
graph coherent for reads + strict writes after).

* test(engine): un-ignore the internal-table scan LOCK (step 2 acceptance)

`internal_table_scans_are_flat_in_history` was the RED, #[ignore]'d acceptance
gate staged in PR #288. With internal-table compaction landed, a write's
__manifest/_graph_commits scan is flat in commit-history depth on a compacted
graph (measured __manifest 4->2, _graph_commits 7->3 across depth 10->100, vs the
pre-step-2 RED 34->214 / 29->207). The test now compacts at each depth before
measuring and runs green every-PR.

* docs: RFC-013 step 2 internal-table compaction landed

- invariants.md: close the compaction half of the read-path-rederivation known
  gap (optimize now compacts the internal tables; cleanup half still deferred).
- maintenance.md: optimize covers __manifest/_graph_commits (no publish, no
  sidecar); not yet in cleanup.
- rfc-013 §9: split step 2 into 2a (compaction, landed) and 2b (cleanup + Q8
  watermark, deferred — debated; MTT-overlap + hot-path liability).
- testing.md: the internal-table LOCK is now green every-PR.

* fix(engine): guard absent _graph_commits + always compact internal tables

Addresses PR #291 review findings:

- Greptile (P1): optimize unconditionally opened `_graph_commits` for compaction,
  but a graph can validly have none (the coordinator opens it as `Option`, gated on
  `storage.exists`, for graphs predating the commit graph). `Dataset::open` on the
  absent table errored and failed the whole optimize. Guard the `_graph_commits`
  compaction with the same `storage_adapter().exists()` check the coordinator uses;
  `__manifest` always exists so it stays unguarded. Regression test
  `optimize_tolerates_absent_graph_commits_table` (empty graph so no publish
  recreates the table before the guard).

- Cursor (low): the `table_tasks.is_empty()` early return skipped internal-table
  compaction for a schema with no node/edge types. Removed it so the internal
  tables are compacted regardless of the data-table set.

- Codex (auto-cleanup, P1): documented — `compact_files` commits with a default
  `CommitConfig` (no skip_auto_cleanup) and `CompactionOptions` exposes no override,
  so on a graph storing an *on* auto_cleanup config the commit would fire version
  GC. Both internal tables are created with `auto_cleanup: None`, so new graphs are
  safe; the only exposure is pre-fix upgraded graphs, identical to the existing
  data-table optimize path, with step 2b's watermark as the comprehensive guard.
  Added a comment in `compact_internal_table` recording this.

* docs(rfc-013): serial-hop correction — wall-clock is the ~110-hop backbone, not op count

Latency-slope measurement on the deployed edge binary (f6d2cc03, steps 1+3a
landed; rustfs + per-op latency proxy, depth 1..85) shows wall-clock is set by a
~110-hop SERIAL backbone that is depth-invariant. Total ops grow +~7/depth but
PARALLELIZE (parallelism 1->6), so the depth term adds little wall-clock.

- New §0(c): the serial-hop vs total-op finding + branch-op backbones
  (create ~77, delete ~87, branch-write ~258/1777-ops/21s floor = fork-on-first-write).
- §2.4: correct the '1720->198 ops => 258s->30s' op-count->wall-clock conversion.
- §5.1: promote serial-hop/num_stages to the PRIMARY latency LOCK; op-count
  flatness demoted to a cost/compute-floor gate.
- §9 step 2: reprioritized as Phase-7 prerequisite + compute-floor/space, NOT
  the wall-clock fix; step 3b (parallel capture-once WriteTxn) is the headline
  latency lever; branch-write moved under step 3b + fork seam.
- Summary: serial-backbone correction up front.

Vindicates the §3/§4.1 design; corrects the op-count latency framing.

* docs(rfc-013): concurrency-cap correction + Lance-metadata comparison

Fold in two measured findings from the deployed edge binary (f6d2cc03) on
rustfs behind a latency+concurrency proxy:

- §0(d): concurrency-cap A/B. Under unlimited concurrency the internal-table
  scan parallelizes (backbone ~110); under an R2-realistic cap (8) it serializes
  and an UNCOMPACTED graph runs away (per-write ops 1273->3505, wall 6->16s),
  while #291's internal compaction cuts it ~6x and bounds it (137->1 frag). The
  latency model is (serial_hops + ops/effective_concurrency)*RTT + compute.
- Reframe step 2 across Summary/§2.4/§9: NOT de-ranked — on R2 (capped) it is a
  primary latency lever + the anti-runaway fix + Phase-7 prereq. The earlier
  'step 2 is parallel, irrelevant to latency' was an unlimited-concurrency
  artifact. Deployed f6d2cc03 optimize is node/edge-only; #291 (undeployed) is
  the prod win.
- §5.1: the cost-gate ThrottledStore must cap concurrency AND inject latency;
  assert serial_hops flat AND ops flat in history.
- §2.3 + §8: Lance/LanceDB comparison from 7.0.0 source — Lance metadata is a
  single-file per-version manifest read O(1) (latest_version_hint), pruned by
  default; omnigraph's __manifest-as-Lance-dataset scan is self-inflicted by the
  cross-table-atomicity choice. Adds explicit defense of Lance-dataset __manifest
  (MTT seam) vs a flat-file CAS'd manifest (cheaper, off the MTT path).

Design (§3/§4.1) unchanged and vindicated; corrections are measurement framing,
step sizing, and one design-choice that was implicit.
2026-06-21 21:54:59 +02:00
Ragnor Comerford
f2b792e0ae
(feat): compact the internal manifest/commit-graph tables in optimize (#291)
* feat(engine): compact the internal __manifest/_graph_commits tables in optimize

`optimize` iterated node/edge catalog tables only, so the two internal system
tables (`__manifest`, `_graph_commits`) accumulated one fragment per commit and
were never compacted -- making every write's metadata scan O(fragments), which
grows forever on a long-lived graph (RFC-013 step 2).

`optimize_all_tables` now also compacts both internal tables via a new
`compact_internal_table`. They are not catalog-tracked (readers open them at
their latest Lance HEAD), so it is a much simpler path than `optimize_one_table`:
compact in place, no manifest publish (nothing to publish to), no recovery
sidecar (a single atomic Lance commit -- no HEAD-before-publish gap), and no
optimize_indices (they carry no Lance index, only object_id's unenforced-PK
metadata). No application lock: Lance's compact_files auto-retries its Rewrite
against any concurrent writer (the canonical LanceDB pattern; Rewrite vs Append
is compatible, vs Update a retryable same-fragment conflict Lance rebases), and a
coordinator refresh afterwards makes the warm handle observe the compacted HEAD.

Compacts both tables even though Phase 7 (iss-991) will later fold _graph_commits
into __manifest -- a one-call throwaway for the full interim win; __manifest
compaction is also the prerequisite for Phase 7's graph_head contention. Cleanup
(version GC) of the internal tables is deliberately NOT included here: it needs
the Q8 cleanup-resurrection watermark first (deferred).

maintenance.rs: optimize now returns 6 stats (4 data + 2 internal); adds
optimize_compacts_internal_tables (sheds fragments, leaks no recovery sidecar,
graph coherent for reads + strict writes after).

* test(engine): un-ignore the internal-table scan LOCK (step 2 acceptance)

`internal_table_scans_are_flat_in_history` was the RED, #[ignore]'d acceptance
gate staged in PR #288. With internal-table compaction landed, a write's
__manifest/_graph_commits scan is flat in commit-history depth on a compacted
graph (measured __manifest 4->2, _graph_commits 7->3 across depth 10->100, vs the
pre-step-2 RED 34->214 / 29->207). The test now compacts at each depth before
measuring and runs green every-PR.

* docs: RFC-013 step 2 internal-table compaction landed

- invariants.md: close the compaction half of the read-path-rederivation known
  gap (optimize now compacts the internal tables; cleanup half still deferred).
- maintenance.md: optimize covers __manifest/_graph_commits (no publish, no
  sidecar); not yet in cleanup.
- rfc-013 §9: split step 2 into 2a (compaction, landed) and 2b (cleanup + Q8
  watermark, deferred — debated; MTT-overlap + hot-path liability).
- testing.md: the internal-table LOCK is now green every-PR.

* fix(engine): guard absent _graph_commits + always compact internal tables

Addresses PR #291 review findings:

- Greptile (P1): optimize unconditionally opened `_graph_commits` for compaction,
  but a graph can validly have none (the coordinator opens it as `Option`, gated on
  `storage.exists`, for graphs predating the commit graph). `Dataset::open` on the
  absent table errored and failed the whole optimize. Guard the `_graph_commits`
  compaction with the same `storage_adapter().exists()` check the coordinator uses;
  `__manifest` always exists so it stays unguarded. Regression test
  `optimize_tolerates_absent_graph_commits_table` (empty graph so no publish
  recreates the table before the guard).

- Cursor (low): the `table_tasks.is_empty()` early return skipped internal-table
  compaction for a schema with no node/edge types. Removed it so the internal
  tables are compacted regardless of the data-table set.

- Codex (auto-cleanup, P1): documented — `compact_files` commits with a default
  `CommitConfig` (no skip_auto_cleanup) and `CompactionOptions` exposes no override,
  so on a graph storing an *on* auto_cleanup config the commit would fire version
  GC. Both internal tables are created with `auto_cleanup: None`, so new graphs are
  safe; the only exposure is pre-fix upgraded graphs, identical to the existing
  data-table optimize path, with step 2b's watermark as the comprehensive guard.
  Added a comment in `compact_internal_table` recording this.

* fix(engine): retry publish on RetryableCommitConflict (compaction vs publish)

Step 2 compacts `__manifest` with no app-level lock (Lance OCC arbitrates,
validated against LanceDB + the lance-7.0.0 conflict resolver). compact_files'
`Operation::Rewrite` auto-retries 20x (CommitConfig default num_retries=20), so a
live publish usually wins the race and the compaction rebases. But the publish
runs its merge-insert with conflict_retries(0) = one rebase attempt; if the
compaction commits first AND the merge touched a fragment the Rewrite rewrote,
Lance preempts the publish with `Error::RetryableCommitConflict` — a DIFFERENT
variant from the row-level `TooMuchWriteContention` the publisher already retries.
Left unhandled, that surfaces a transient error to the caller, i.e. a maintenance
compaction (physical op) failing a live write (logical op) — invariant 7.

Map `LanceError::RetryableCommitConflict` to a new
`ManifestConflictDetails::RetryableCommitConflict` and treat it as retryable in the
publisher's outer loop (reload fresh state + re-merge), alongside
RowLevelCasContention. `ExpectedVersionMismatch` still propagates (a genuine
expectation break must not be blindly retried). This also hardens multi-process
concurrent writers generally, not just compaction.

Normal publishes are insert-only (new object_ids -> new fragments, disjoint from
rewritten old ones), so the conflict is rare; the guard covers the
same-fragment-update edge and multi-process writers. Unit tests in publisher.rs
pin the mapping + the retry-predicate contract.

* revert: publisher RetryableCommitConflict handling (it was the wrong side)

Reverts d138902e. Validated against lance-7.0.0: the publisher's merge-insert runs
with conflict_retries(0), and execute_with_retry converts an exhausted retryable
commit conflict to TooMuchWriteContention before the caller sees it
(write/retry.rs ~95-130). So map_lance_publish_error NEVER receives
RetryableCommitConflict from merge_rows — it receives TooMuchWriteContention, which
the publisher already maps to RowLevelCasContention and retries. The reverted
mapping was therefore dead on the real path and its unit test was synthetic.

The actual exposure is the *compaction* side: compact_files -> commit_compaction ->
apply_commit directly (no execute_with_retry), so a Rewrite-vs-Merge check_txn
conflict propagates raw and optimize can fail on a live graph. That is fixed
app-side in compact_internal_table in the following commit.

* fix(engine): make internal-table compaction correct by construction

Address three findings from review of the step-2 internal-table compaction:

- Non-destructive by construction: before compacting an internal table,
  strip any stored `lance.auto_cleanup.*` config off it. `compact_files`
  commits with a default `CommitConfig` (skip_auto_cleanup=false) and
  `CompactionOptions` exposes no override, so on a graph created by an older
  binary (on-by-default GC hook) the compaction commit would fire Lance's
  auto-cleanup and silently prune `__manifest`-pinned versions. Current
  binaries store no such config; the strip is the upgrade-path safety net so
  `optimize` can never GC versions.

- App-level compaction retry: `compact_files` does NOT auto-retry a semantic
  conflict against a concurrent live writer (Rewrite vs Update/Merge/Delete
  propagates raw from apply_commit; Lance prescribes app-rerun). Wrap the
  internal-table compaction in a bounded retry loop that reopens fresh and
  replans on a retryable Lance conflict, so a maintenance compaction (a
  physical op) never fails a live write (a logical op) — invariant 7.

- Compact all three internal tables, not two: `_graph_commit_actors` grows
  one fragment per commit on the authenticated write path, the same O(depth)
  scan as `__manifest`/`_graph_commits`. Drive the sweep from one
  source-of-truth list with per-table existence guards (the two commit-graph
  tables are optional). Make `graph_commit_actors_uri` pub(crate).

Tests: the `internal_table_scans_are_flat_in_history` LOCK now runs the
authenticated (actorful) write path so it covers `_graph_commit_actors` via
the shared commit-graph IO wrapper (new `commit_many_as`/`measure_insert_as`
helpers); `optimize_clears_stale_auto_cleanup_and_preserves_versions` pins
the non-destructive guarantee (config cleared + no version GC); a unit test
pins the retryable-conflict classifier; the empty-graph stats count is 7
(the actor table is created at init).

* docs: internal-table compaction covers all 3 tables, non-destructive, retried

Sync the RFC-013 step-2a section and the maintenance guide with the
correctness-by-design refinements:

- optimize compacts `__manifest`, `_graph_commits`, AND `_graph_commit_actors`
  (the actor table grows on the authenticated write path).
- optimize is non-destructive by construction — it never GCs versions, and
  strips stale `lance.auto_cleanup.*` config so an upgraded graph's commit-time
  GC hook cannot fire during compaction.
- internal-table compaction rebases and retries against concurrent live
  writers rather than failing the operator's optimize or the live write.
- the cost LOCK is the authenticated-path acceptance test.

* fix(engine): refresh coordinator after a config-strip with no compaction work

`compact_internal_table` returns early when `plan_compaction` finds no work,
but `clear_stale_auto_cleanup_config` may have already committed a config-strip
that advanced Lance HEAD. The early return skipped the coordinator refresh that
the successful-compaction path performs, leaving warm `__manifest`/commit-graph
handles pinned to the pre-strip version until the next read's version probe
healed them. No correctness bug (the probe self-heals, and a stale-handle write
would retry via publisher CAS), but the refresh makes coherence deterministic
rather than probe-dependent. Refresh iff the config-strip actually committed.

* docs(engine): correct compact_internal_table doc — compact_files does not auto-retry

The function doc claimed "Lance's compact_files auto-retries its Operation::Rewrite
against any concurrent writer" — wrong, and contradicting the is_retryable_lance_conflict
doc just below it and the explicit retry loop that exists precisely because compact_files
does NOT auto-retry semantic conflicts (Rewrite vs Update/Merge/Delete propagates raw
through apply_commit). Also move the orphaned description from above the retry-budget
const onto the function, and include the third internal table.

* test(engine): optimize must clear stale auto_cleanup on DATA tables too (red)

Regression test for a destructive bug on the data-table optimize path: on an
upgraded graph whose node/edge table still carries pre-v7 lance.auto_cleanup.*
config, `optimize`'s compact_files/optimize_indices commits fire Lance's version
GC and prune __manifest-pinned data-table versions. Mirrors the internal-table
auto_cleanup test on a Person table (force-repair realigns the config-induced
drift so optimize doesn't skip the table). Red against the current code: the
data-table path does not strip the config. The fix lands in the next commit.

* fix(engine): clear stale auto_cleanup on the data-table optimize path too

The auto_cleanup scrub previously only protected the internal tables; the
data-table path (optimize_one_table) ran compact_files/optimize_indices with a
default CommitConfig (skip_auto_cleanup=false) and no override, so on an upgraded
graph those commits could fire Lance's version-GC hook and prune __manifest-pinned
node/edge versions — making the "non-destructive" contract false for data tables.
Strip the config before the HEAD-advancing commits, capturing version_before first
so the strip's own commit still triggers the Phase-C manifest publish (no uncovered
drift). No retry loop needed: the data-table path holds the per-table write queue.
Covered by the existing Optimize recovery sidecar. Turns the prior commit's test green.

Also: switch clear_stale_auto_cleanup_config off the deprecated delete_config_keys
to update_config(None values), and correct two now-inaccurate doc comments —
compaction is "one or more content-preserving commits" (compact_files can emit a
ReserveFragments before the Rewrite), not "a single atomic commit"; the sidecar-free
property rests on content-preservation + read-at-HEAD, not single-commit atomicity.

* docs: optimize is non-destructive on all tables; correct atomicity/retry claims

- non-destructive guarantee now spans data + internal tables (the auto_cleanup
  strip runs on both paths), not just the internal ones.
- "single atomic Lance commit" was inaccurate: compaction can emit a
  ReserveFragments commit before the Rewrite; the no-sidecar property rests on
  content-preservation + read-at-HEAD, not single-commit atomicity.
- "retries rather than failing" softened to the truth: a *bounded* retry on the
  internal path; sustained contention surfaces a loud conflict error (bounded +
  observable, not an infinite loop). The data path holds the per-table queue and
  never contends.
2026-06-21 16:38:20 +02:00
Ragnor Comerford
f6d2cc03e3
write-path cost gate + opener bypass (#288)
* docs(rfc): RFC-013 write-path latency design + index link

* perf(engine): open write-path tables directly, bypassing the namespace builder

Write opens routed through DatasetBuilder::from_namespace, whose describe_table
opened the whole dataset just to return a location and then re-resolved the
latest version — an O(commit-depth) double latest-resolution per table open that
missed Lance's O(1) version-hint fast path. On an object store this dominated
write latency (~70%, RFC-013 section 2.4).

TableStore::open_dataset_head_for_write now delegates to the direct opener
(open_dataset_head: Dataset::open by URI + checkout_branch, routed through the
tracked opener so cost tests can count it; a no-op in production). The manifest
already holds every sub-table's location, so the namespace catalog lookup was
redundant; ensure_expected_version still validates head == pinned for strict ops.
This completes PR #268's open-by-location migration on the write side.

With both reads (PR #268) and now writes bypassing it, nothing in production
routes through the per-table Lance namespace. The dead open chain
(load_table_from_namespace, open_table_head_for_write) is deleted and the
StagedTableNamespace contract apparatus is gated #[cfg(test)], mirroring the
already-test-only read namespace; __manifest commit coordination
(GraphNamespacePublisher) is a separate component and is unaffected.

See docs/dev/rfc-013-write-path-latency.md sections 2.4 and 9 (step 3a).

* test(engine): write-path cost-budget gate on a shared harness

Adds tests/helpers/cost.rs, a store-agnostic cost harness (IoCounts/StagedCounts,
measure/measure_with_staged, assert_flat, local_graph/s3_graph) that the read-side
warm_read_cost.rs, write_cost.rs, and write_cost_s3.rs share, so the IOTracker /
task-local plumbing lives in exactly one place instead of duplicated per test.

write_cost.rs (local, every-PR) gates the internal-table scan term flat in
commit-history depth (a RED #[ignore]'d LOCK, the acceptance for bringing the
internal tables into compaction) plus green guards: a single insert's data writes
are bounded, a per-write read-op ceiling fails the moment a round-trip is added,
and a keyed insert routes through stage_merge_insert once with no stage_append or
vector-index build.

write_cost_s3.rs (bucket-gated, rustfs CI) gates the data-table opener term flat
across depth — the object-store-RPC phenomenon local FS cannot reproduce, and the
red->green proof of the opener bypass. Wired into the rustfs_integration CI job
and its path filter.

Guards the "hot-path cost is bounded by work, not history" invariant on writes.
See docs/dev/rfc-013-write-path-latency.md section 5.1, docs/dev/testing.md.

* docs(rfc): RFC-013 step 3a landed; write-skew coupling; cost-gate test map

- Section 9: mark step 1 (gate + harness) and step 3a (opener bypass) landed;
  record the per-table namespace retirement to test-only and the corrected
  measurement note (the opener win is S3-only; the local data-table growth is the
  merge-insert/RI fragment scan, a compaction term, not the opener).
- Sections 7.1/6/11/5.5/10: correct the cross-table write-skew analysis after a
  prototype proved the scoped expected-set fix is a no-op against the per-object_id
  manifest (disjoint writers never share a row, so Lance never conflicts, the
  publisher never retries, and the expected check is a non-atomic pre-check
  evaluated once against stale state). The fix needs a shared contention row
  (Phase-7 graph_head / a minimal head row / commit-time re-validation), so it is
  coupled to that row, not standalone; that contention is load-bearing for
  correctness, not a drawback. Split the concurrent face (read-set + head) from the
  sequential face (inbound-RI validation on node removal) -- two different fixes.
- testing.md: add write_cost.rs / helpers/cost.rs / write_cost_s3.rs to the test
  map; document the local-vs-S3 backend split; extend the cost-budget checklist
  item to the write/open path and point at the shared harness.

* test(engine): isolate the opener in the S3 cost gate; fail loud on S3 setup errors

Addresses two PR review findings on the bucket-gated write_cost_s3 gate:

- The data-table opener was not isolated: `data_reads` also counts the
  merge-insert/RI scan, which reads O(fragment-count) and so grows with history
  for a different reason (compaction's domain, not the opener) -- the same term
  that made the local data-table count grow. The flat assertion would false-RED
  or misattribute scan growth to the opener on rustfs. Fix: compact (db.optimize)
  before each measurement so the table holds ~1 fragment, bounding the scan and
  leaving the opener's latest-version resolution as the only history-varying term.
  Compaction preserves version history, so the opener still faces a deep
  _versions/ chain -- the thing under test.

- s3_graph used `.ok()?`, so when OMNIGRAPH_S3_TEST_BUCKET was set but the store
  was down/misconfigured, init/seed failures collapsed to None and the gate
  skipped + passed vacuously. Fix: skip only when the bucket env var is absent;
  once it is set, init/seed failures panic (mirrors tests/s3_storage.rs).

* test(engine): isolate the S3 opener with a per-prefix IO probe (correct-by-design)

Replaces the fixture-bounded isolation (compact-before-measure) from the prior
commit with the root fix: a path-classifying ObjectStore wrapper (PrefixCounter)
that attributes each data-table read to the opener term (_versions/.manifest) vs
the scan term (data/*.lance). IoCounts now exposes data_opener_reads /
data_scan_reads, so write_cost_s3 asserts the opener flat *directly* -- no
compaction or fixture massaging, and the assertion measures the opener, not the
conflated total. Closes the "harness conflates two IO terms" class: any cost test
(read or write) can now isolate the opener.

PrefixCounter implements only the object_store 0.13 core ObjectStore methods; the
convenience surface (get/put/head/...) routes through get_opts/put_opts via
ObjectStoreExt's blanket impl, so every read/write is still counted.

Validated locally (every-PR) by write_cost::data_table_reads_split_into_flat_opener_
and_growing_scan: opener stays flat (7 -> 3) while scan grows (11 -> 91) and
opener + scan == data_total exactly -- proving the classifier and confirming the
local data-table growth is the fragment scan, not the opener. warm_read_cost
(12 tests) stays green under the shared-harness change.

* refactor(tests): remove cost-harness duplication and namespace cfg(test) noise

Branch self-review (no behavior change) — pay down three liabilities the
write-path work left:

- warm_read_cost.rs kept its own probes() (three IOTrackers + a QueryIoProbes +
  a probe counter) and read raw .stats().read_iops — duplicating the shared
  helpers::cost harness this branch introduced. Migrated all 12 tests onto
  measure()/IoCounts; deleted the local probes(). (This also makes IoCounts'
  version_probes field used rather than dead.)

- insert_cost was copy-pasted verbatim into write_cost.rs and write_cost_s3.rs.
  Hoisted to helpers::cost::measure_insert so the measured write is defined once.

- The per-table Lance namespace (namespace.rs) became entirely test-only after
  step 3a, but was gated with ~22 per-item #[cfg(test)] attributes. Collapsed to
  a single `#[cfg(test)] mod namespace;` and stripped the per-item attributes;
  merged the import groups the gating had split.

Verified: lib in-source 162 passed; write_cost 4 + warm_read_cost 12 passed;
forbidden_apis passed.
2026-06-20 13:31:15 +02:00