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fix(daemon): check large tables in bounded chunks during integrity sweeps - #2133

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Summary

The incremental integrity checker never finishes on a database with a very large table, and it stalls the DB owner every time it retries.

Each table is checked with one PRAGMA quick_check(table) owner job. SQLite can't interrupt that statement, so on a table too large for the 1s owner deadline the owner stays busy until the whole check finishes. The client gives up at the deadline, waits for the owner, throws the result away as timed_out, and leaves the cursor where it was. The next slice, up to 30s later, issues the same whole-table check again. On a live workspace with an 18M-row entity_dependency_history (grown by the re-index loop fixed in #2129), that meant a stall of roughly 38s on each retry and an integrity status that stayed unavailable indefinitely.

Changes

  • incremental-database-integrity.ts: before quick_check, the checker counts each ordinary table's rows up to a cap (SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT 1 FROM t LIMIT 100001)), so the probe itself is bounded. Tables within the cap are checked as before.
  • A larger rowid table is read in rowid chunks of 20,000 rows, one owner job per chunk. Every column of every row is decoded. The last rowid is saved in the checkpoint (object_cursor, object_rowid), so each slice resumes where the previous one stopped and the sweep moves forward. Rowids are passed as exact text, so negative rowids and rowids above 2^53 are neither skipped nor read twice.
  • A read error during the probe or a chunk marks that table failed with the SQLite message and the sweep continues. Before, the run went unavailable and retried the same table.
  • A WITHOUT ROWID table over the cap can't be split by rowid and is counted in skippedObjects.
  • database-integrity.ts: tables checked by the chunked scan are counted in the new incrementalProgress.scannedObjects. A completed sweep that used the scan keeps quickCheck.ok: true, and quickCheck.messages says how many large tables were read in chunks and that their b-tree structure and indexes were not verified. The scan covers less than quick_check, and the status says so.
  • health-status.md documents the large-table behavior and the new field.

Measured locally on a 1M-row table built like entity_dependency_history, with three indexes: a whole-table quick_check took 361ms, and the cost grows with the table. The chunked sweep finished in 7 slices; the slowest slice took 199ms of wall time and 68ms of owner execution, about 8ms per chunk whatever the table size.

Tests

  • New: a 4,801-row table with a 1,000-row cap and 400-row chunks. The sweep finishes across several slices and reports running with objects remaining in between. No owner statement runs quick_check or integrity_check on the table. Resume points strictly increase, including across a rowid above 2^53. The final status reports one scanned table and the coverage note. Against main this fails, because main runs the whole-table check.
  • New: a large table with a corrupted leaf page. The bad chunk is recorded as a failed object, the next table is still checked, and the status is corrupt. Against main the run ends unavailable.
  • Replacing the exact-text rowid with a JS number makes the first test fail (9007199254740992n received for 9007199254740993n).
  • incremental-database-integrity, database-integrity, migration-integrity-verify, startup-recovery, daemon-production-wiring: 70/70.
  • Biome, the production comment ratchet, and the event-loop ledger pass (24/24; the regenerated ledger only shifts line numbers). The pre-commit workspace typechecks pass.

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  • feat — new user-facing feature (bumps minor)
  • fix — bug fix
  • refactor — restructure without behavior change
  • chore — build, deps, config, docs
  • perf — performance improvement
  • test — test coverage

Packages affected

  • @signet/daemon

Refs #2126

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  • New Features
    • Incremental health checks scan large tables in bounded rowid chunks and resume across runs.
    • Health-check results report the number of scanned objects and clarify that chunked scans do not verify b-tree structure or indexes. Oversized tables without a usable rowid are skipped.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Read errors during a large-table scan are reported as failures, while checks continue with later tables.
  • Documentation
    • Updated health-status documentation to describe large-table checks, fallback behavior, and coverage limits.

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The incremental integrity checker ran PRAGMA quick_check on each table
as one owner job. SQLite cannot interrupt that statement, so on a table
too large for the owner deadline the owner stayed busy until the check
finished, the client discarded the result as timed out, and the cursor
never advanced. Every retry repeated the same whole-table check.

A bounded row count now gates the whole-table check. Larger rowid
tables are read in rowid chunks, one owner job per chunk, with the
position persisted in the checkpoint so each slice resumes where the
last one stopped. A read error marks the table failed and the sweep
continues. Tables checked this way are counted separately and the
published quick-check status says their b-tree structure and indexes
were not verified.

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Large rowid tables are scanned in bounded chunks, with progress saved between runs. The check reports scanned-object counts and notes that these scans do not verify b-tree structure or indexes. Tests cover scan resumption, rowid alias selection, and unreadable chunks.

Changes: Large-table integrity scanning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scan options and resumable checkpoint state
platform/daemon/src/incremental-database-integrity.ts
Adds configurable table and chunk thresholds. Checkpoints store scanned-object counts and per-table rowid cursors. Creation, migration, reads, validation, resets, and updates handle these fields.
Bounded scans and outcomes
platform/daemon/src/incremental-database-integrity.ts, platform/daemon/src/incremental-database-integrity.test.ts
Scans large rowid tables in resumable chunks. Skips oversized tables without a usable rowid and records scan errors. Tests cover cursor resumption, rowid alias selection, skipped tables, and unreadable chunks.
Coverage reporting and supporting updates
platform/daemon/src/database-integrity.ts, web/docs/src/content/docs/api/health-status.md, scripts/event-loop-contract-baseline.json
Reports scanned-object counts and bounded-scan limitations in quick-check messages. Documents the scan behavior and updates event-loop baseline line numbers.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IntegrityCheck
  participant DatabaseOwner
  participant Checkpoint
  participant HealthStatus
  IntegrityCheck->>DatabaseOwner: Read a bounded rowid chunk
  DatabaseOwner-->>IntegrityCheck: Return rows and last rowid
  IntegrityCheck->>Checkpoint: Save scan cursor when more rows remain
  Checkpoint-->>IntegrityCheck: Provide cursor on a later run
  IntegrityCheck->>HealthStatus: Report scanned-object count and scan limitation
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Large tables are now integrity-checked in bounded chunks with resumable progress. No outstanding merge-blocking risk was identified in the supplied context.

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The bounded-scan test asserted on the published quick-check status,
which keeps its previous value while another test's global integrity
latch is set. In the full suite a leaked latch and a stale timed-out
message replaced the coverage note. Both large-table tests now clear
the latch first, the corrupt-chunk test clears it on exit instead of
publishing a global healthy state, and both loop until the sweep
completes under a generous run budget and owner deadline.

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Review comments at @platform/daemon/src/incremental-database-integrity.ts:
- Around line 741-757: In the ordinary-table scan flow, catch deadline errors
only around the initial size probe in the `!resuming` branch and set `large` to
true so scanning continues via the existing rowid chunk path. Keep the probe
capped at `largeTableRows + 1`, and continue rethrowing deadlines from chunk
scans and all later operations.
- Around line 775-800: Update the chunk query in the table scan to select,
order, and resume using an unshadowed alias chosen from rowid, _rowid_, and oid.
If all three aliases are declared columns, use the existing full-table check
instead of chunk scanning.

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…ed rowids

A size probe or whole-table check that hit the owner deadline left no
trace in the checkpoint, so the next slice repeated the same work. Each
ordinary table is now marked in the checkpoint before its probe. A slice
that finds the mark reads the table in rowid chunks instead of probing
or checking it whole again, so every table gets at most one whole-table
attempt per sweep.

The chunked scan also ordered and resumed by `rowid`, which a declared
column of that name shadows. The scan now uses the first of rowid,
_rowid_, and oid that the table does not declare, and counts a large
table that declares all three as skipped instead of checking it whole.

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