omnigraph/docs/user/maintenance.md
Ragnor Comerford e62d9166fb
fix: optimize publishes compaction; recovery roll-back converges manifest (#141)
* test(optimize): cover manifest publish + HEAD-drift reconcile

Red against the pre-fix optimize, which ran compact_files without
publishing the compacted version to __manifest:

- maintenance: optimize must publish so the manifest table_version
  tracks the compacted Lance HEAD and a later schema apply succeeds;
  and must reconcile a pre-existing manifest-behind-HEAD drift (forged
  via raw Lance compaction) so strict writes commit again.
- end_to_end + composite_flow: post-optimize query / strict update /
  reopen in the full lifecycle (the canonical flow previously omitted
  post-optimize writes as a documented "known limitation").
- failpoints: a crash between compaction and the manifest publish rolls
  forward on next open.

* fix(optimize): publish compaction to manifest and reconcile HEAD drift

optimize ran Lance compact_files without publishing the new version to
__manifest, so the manifest table_version lagged the Lance HEAD: reads
stayed pinned to the pre-compaction version, and the next schema apply or
strict update/delete failed its HEAD-vs-manifest precondition with
"stale view ... refresh and retry" (open-time recovery rollback inflated
the gap on retry).

optimize now publishes each compacted table's version under the
per-(table, main) write queue, guarded by a manifest CAS and a
SidecarKind::Optimize recovery sidecar (loose-match; roll-forward is safe
because compaction is content-preserving). When a table has nothing left
to compact but its Lance HEAD is already ahead of the manifest pin
(pre-fix drift, or a recovery restore commit), optimize reconciles the
manifest forward to HEAD (metadata-only, no sidecar). Caches and the
CSR/CSC graph index are invalidated after a publish.

Docs updated (maintenance, storage, branches-commits, writes, testing).

* test(recovery): rollback convergence + optimize-defer regressions

Red against the current code, landed before the fix:
- recovery: after the open-time sweep rolls a sidecar back, the manifest
  must track Lance HEAD (no residual drift) so a follow-up schema apply
  succeeds — the original "+1 per retry" loop. Today roll-back restores
  without publishing, so the manifest lags HEAD and the apply fails its
  HEAD-vs-manifest precondition.
- maintenance: optimize must refuse while a recovery sidecar is pending —
  operating on an unrecovered graph could publish a partial write the
  sweep would roll back.

Also removes optimize_reconciles_preexisting_manifest_head_drift: the
ad-hoc drift reconcile it covered is replaced by recovery-side convergence.

* fix(recovery): converge manifest on roll-back; optimize defers on pending recovery

Root of PR #141's review findings and the original "+1 per retry" loop:
a Lance HEAD ahead of the manifest was ambiguous (benign content-preserving
drift vs. a partial write a sidecar will roll back), and optimize's reconcile
guessed it benign. Close the class instead of guessing:

- Recovery roll-back now PUBLISHES the restored version (via a
  push_table_update_at_head helper shared with roll-forward), so the manifest
  tracks the Lance HEAD after recovery — symmetric with roll-forward. This
  fixes the +1 loop (after one roll-back the retry's HEAD-vs-manifest
  precondition passes) and removes the only remaining source of orphaned
  drift. The audit still records the logical rolled-back-to version; the
  manifest is published at the restore commit (identical content).
- optimize drops the ad-hoc drift reconcile and instead REFUSES when a
  __recovery sidecar is pending, so it only ever operates on a recovered
  graph (manifest == HEAD); its compaction publish can no longer commit a
  partial write. With the reconcile gone, the blob-skip-vs-reconcile gap is
  moot.

Updates the rollback recovery-test helper (manifest == HEAD after roll-back),
the failpoints assertions, and the user/dev docs.

* test(recovery): fix rollback assertion for manifest convergence

The roll-back-publishes change makes the manifest version advance after a
SchemaApply roll-back (to the old-schema content), so the
schema_apply_without_schema_staging_rolls_back_on_next_open assertion must
be `version > pre`, not `version == pre`. This update was dropped during
the commit churn and surfaced as a CI Test Workspace failure; the
old-schema-preserved intent stays covered by count_rows + _schema.pg + the
RolledBack convergence invariant.
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Maintenance: Optimize & Cleanup

db/omnigraph/optimize.rs.

optimize_all_tables(db) — non-destructive

  • Lance compact_files() on every node + edge table on main, then publishes the compacted version to the __manifest so the manifest's table_version tracks the compacted Lance HEAD. Reads pin the manifest version, so without this publish compaction would be invisible to readers and would break the HEAD-vs-manifest precondition of the next schema apply / strict update/delete ("stale view … refresh and retry"). The publish advances the graph version (a system-attributed commit) only for tables that actually compacted.
  • Rewrites small fragments into fewer large ones; old fragments remain reachable via older manifests until cleanup runs.
  • Each table's compact→publish runs under its per-(table, main) write queue (serializing with concurrent mutations — compaction is a Lance Rewrite op that retryable-conflicts with a concurrent merge/update/delete on overlapping fragments). The Lance-HEAD-before-manifest-publish gap is covered by a SidecarKind::Optimize recovery sidecar (loose-match): a crash in that window rolls the compacted version forward on the next Omnigraph::open (compaction is content-preserving, so roll-forward is always safe).
  • Requires a recovered graph. optimize refuses (errors) when an unresolved recovery sidecar is present under __recovery — operating on an unrecovered graph could publish a partial write the open-time recovery sweep would roll back. Reopen the graph to run the recovery sweep, then re-run optimize. (Recovery roll-back now publishes its restored version, so a recovered graph always satisfies manifest == Lance HEAD going in; there is no leftover drift for optimize to interpret.)
  • Bounded by OMNIGRAPH_MAINTENANCE_CONCURRENCY (default 8).
  • Returns [TableOptimizeStats { table_key, fragments_removed, fragments_added, committed, skipped }].
  • Blob tables are skipped. A table that declares any Blob property is not compacted: it is reported with skipped: Some(BlobColumnsUnsupportedByLance) (and logged via tracing::warn) instead of compacted, and the rest of the sweep proceeds normally. The current Lance compact_files mis-decodes blob-v2 columns under its forced BlobHandling::AllBinary read; reads and writes are unaffected — only compaction is. This is gated by LANCE_SUPPORTS_BLOB_COMPACTION (db/omnigraph/optimize.rs) and removed when the upstream Lance fix lands (see docs/dev/lance.md). Consequence: fragment count and deleted-row space on blob tables are not reclaimed until then; query results are never affected.

cleanup_all_tables(db, options) — destructive

  • Lance cleanup_old_versions() per table.
  • Removes manifests (and their unique fragments) older than the retention policy.
  • CleanupPolicyOptions { keep_versions: Option<u32>, older_than: Option<Duration> } — at least one is required.
  • Returns [TableCleanupStats { table_key, bytes_removed, old_versions_removed, error }].
  • Fault-isolated per table. A single table's transient failure (version GC or orphan reclaim) is recorded on that table's stats row (error: Some(..), logged via tracing) and never aborts the healthy tables — cleanup is the convergence backstop, so it does as much as it can and converges on re-run. The CLI reports any failed tables; rerun cleanup to retry them.
  • CLI guards with --confirm; without it, prints a preview line.
  • Recovery floor: --keep < 3 may garbage-collect Lance versions that the open-time recovery sweep needs as a rollback target (the sweep restores to the branch's manifest-pinned table version, which is HEAD-1 in the typical Phase B → Phase C drift case). Default --keep 10 is safe.
  • Orphaned-branch reconciliation: before the version GC, cleanup runs reconcile_orphaned_branches, which force_delete_branches any per-table or commit-graph Lance branch absent from the manifest branch list. These orphans arise when a branch_delete flips the manifest authority but a downstream best-effort reclaim does not complete (see branches-commits.md). The reconciler is authority-derived and idempotent (it no-ops once nothing is orphaned), runs regardless of the keep_versions / older_than values (those gate version GC only), and never reclaims main or system-branch forks. Reclaimed forks are logged via tracing::info.

Tombstones

Logical sub-table delete markers in __manifest; tombstone_object_id(table_key, version) excludes a sub-table version from snapshot reconstruction.

Internal schema migrations (db/manifest/migrations.rs)

Version evolutions of the on-disk __manifest shape are reconciled automatically on the first write under a new binary. INTERNAL_MANIFEST_SCHEMA_VERSION declares the shape the binary expects; the on-disk stamp omnigraph:internal_schema_version (Lance schema-level metadata) records the on-disk shape. The publisher's open-for-write path calls migrate_internal_schema before reading state; reads are side-effect-free. No operator action is required for in-place upgrades. See storage.md → Internal schema versioning for the full mechanism.

A binary opening a manifest stamped at a version higher than it knows about refuses to publish with a clear "upgrade omnigraph first" error — old binaries cannot clobber a newer schema.