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Helen Tian
22d96d94ef [buzz] Recover database pool capacity after stalled connections (#9267)
> **The pin is a temporary workaround for this week's public release.
The SQLx fix is still unmerged.**
>
> 1. We considered a maintained fork, but repository permissions blocked
it.
> 2. We will move to an official SQLx release once it includes the
required fixes and is verified with Buzz. Revisit the fork if needed.

## Bug


https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-656/relay-writer-pool-connections-stranded-after-a-burst-bb-public-2026-11

A short database interruption can leave the relay unable to handle
database requests after traffic returns to normal. All connection slots
can remain occupied even though no request is using them and PostgreSQL
is idle. New requests then time out waiting for a slot.

## Cause

SQLx, our database library, returns connections to the pool in a
background task. If a socket stays open but stops answering, the final
health check has no timeout. That task keeps its slot, and
idle-connection cleanup cannot reclaim it
([#4349](https://github.com/transact-rs/sqlx/issues/4349)).

## Fix

Pin SQLx to
[`c3735abf`](c3735abf03)
from [PR #4407](https://github.com/transact-rs/sqlx/pull/4407). After
five seconds, it stops a stalled return operation, discards the
connection, and frees the slot so new requests can open a replacement.

Preserve the existing [transaction rollback
(#4394)](https://github.com/transact-rs/sqlx/pull/4394) and [SQLite
compatibility (#4402)](https://github.com/transact-rs/sqlx/pull/4402)
fixes. Give the reader's own check four seconds so it can record its
timeout before the outer deadline.

## Critical risk

**This fix depends on a SQLx patch that has not been merged.** Its
five-second limit affects every pool using this revision, so it can also
discard slow but healthy connections and cause more reconnections. The
local reproduction proves recovery from the injected failure; it does
not establish production behavior.

**Prevent accidental replacement:** require SQLx `=0.9.0`, disable
Renovate updates for all seven crates, and fail required CI if the
approved revision, lockfile source, or update restriction changes. These
guards prevent version drift; they do not remove the runtime risk of the
patch. An upgrade must explicitly update the policy after verifying all
required fixes.

## Before and after evidence

With real PostgreSQL 17.6 on macOS arm64, a proxy silenced 100 existing
connections while allowing new connections. All borrowers dropped their
connections; PostgreSQL showed 100 idle sessions.

| Observation | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pool slots still occupied | 100 after 10 seconds | 0 after 5.008
seconds |
| New work | Next checkout timed out | All 100 replacement connections
served `SELECT 1` |

<details>
<summary>Captured before and after output</summary>

**Before**

```text
REPRO burst: 100 dropped borrowers, all release pings held: size=100 idle=0 active=100
REPRO burst DB sessions: [("idle", "ClientRead", 100)]
REPRO burst after 10.000680583s: size=100 idle=0 active=100
REPRO burst: later checkout timed out despite PostgreSQL being healthy
```

**After**

```text
REPRO burst: 100 dropped borrowers, all release pings held: size=100 idle=0 active=100
REPRO burst DB sessions: [("idle", "ClientRead", 100)]
REPRO burst after 5.008456917s: size=0 idle=0 active=0
REPRO burst: all 100 replacement slots serve SELECT 1 while old sessions stay silent
```

Before evidence used Buzz `96af488d968a1ae9d961c2132bea27822735f8da`
with SQLx `f1e94ec3`. After evidence used Buzz
`4bfe60197e8c390a8701053228cd50c5391f37d3` with the SQLx pin committed
in `f253760085e24358728fa4f4fef059ccf892157f`. These are local
fault-injection results: they establish the stranded-slot mechanism and
recovery, not what originally interrupted production database traffic.

</details>

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Signed-off-by: Helen Tian <htian@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-11-09 17:40:31 +11:00
Brad Seiler
96af488d96 fix(media): revoke private channel attachment reads (#9077)
## Summary

Removed private-channel members can currently download attachments if
they know the URL. With `BUZZ_MEDIA_READ_MODE=enforce`, fresh GET, HEAD
and Range requests check current membership and readable references on
the primary database. Removed members receive 404; remaining members
retain access, and rejoining restores access. Thumbnail aliases use the
parent attachment’s permissions.

Publication checks also prevent copied private URLs from granting new
access. They cover attachments, link previews, profile pictures,
banners, group pictures and emoji. Persona creation and changed-avatar
edits, plus team and individual snapshot imports, transfer animated
posters and animations under the agent’s signer before profile
publication. Failed persona transfers preserve existing local records;
import failures appear in the results.

Authorization uses bounded queries, a two-second statement deadline and
transaction-local JIT suppression. An index on edit targets avoids broad
scans. Publications have a 512-reference limit, and capacity waits up to
500 ms before refusal.

Protection defaults off. Existing downloaded bytes cannot be recalled.
All modes stop creating immutable HTTP cache entries.

### Related issue

Related approaches: #7565, #5185, #8451 and #8444. This change evaluates
live stored references directly.

### Testing

Published head: `3d1aa7431cc495a001a0f13e95e2e422c5a77ab1`, rebased on
main `2cd40badb85de059a6916206e133da7a0a88fb2e`. Push hooks were
**SKIPPED** with explicit author approval. Current-head HTTP, full
package, PostgreSQL migration/media and profile-filter mutation checks
are pending; CI is pending. The earlier complete HTTP journey passed at
`f20b449262` (identical source tree), with its evidence attributed
separately. Earlier failing preview/report-fixture runs are preserved;
they do not count as passes.

The HTTP journey covers upload/publication, fresh GET/HEAD/Range
revocation and rejoin, emoji replacement, edited previews, persona
visibility and non-reference decoys. The migration regression forces an
index timeout, verifies no 0086 history or media tables, then proves a
migrator through the base's 0085 can restart.

Human attachment removal/rejoin testing passed on the pinned
`1f08a8e0fd2edf19dc94321f7258518149fe1bf6` trial. Native animated
persona edits and team/individual import acceptance remain incomplete.
That old-snapshot database stays intact and cannot run the reconciled
binary; a new trial needs a separate fresh database.

### Rollout prerequisites

- Build and verify the reference index before shadow mode. Small
databases can auto-migrate through one atomic 0086 migration within the
configured timeouts. It builds the index before creating the media
tables, so failure records no new migration version. Large deployments
must disable auto-migration and prebuild indexes concurrently.
- **Enforce remains blocked unless the operator can rule out SDK/CLI
attachment edits and the unverified agent-harness edit producer.**
SDK/CLI edits still omit attachment metadata. That behavior is deferred,
not fixed. Removing this blocker requires latest-effective attachment
metadata across successive edits, no restoration of removed files, and
an upload → successive edits → GET/HEAD regression.
- Validate client signer compatibility and split emoji publications
above 512 references before enforce mode.
- Complete the human workflows above in an isolated community with
enforce enabled.
- Follow the [index deployment
guide](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/honor/private-channel-media/docs/private-media-index-deployment.md)
and [operator
guidance](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/honor/private-channel-media/docs/operator-private-media.md)
for rollout and rollback.

The [prebuild timeout
finding](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/9077#discussion_r4486221478)
and [avatar-transfer
finding](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/9077#discussion_r4486221458)
are implemented and independently reviewed.

### Schema change checklist

- [x] Additive expand and code deployment; no backfill or contract
phase. Prebuild/verify before shadow under either schema deployment
path.
- [x] No SQL function, trigger, procedure, rule or foreign key added.
Signed events are untouched.
- [x] No migration mutates existing rows.
- [x] Migration and desired-state schema match. Catalog parity, target
parsing, future partition inheritance and upgrade refusal are covered.
- [x] Old/new binaries coexist for serving. Suspend community deletion
during expansion and while rolled back to a binary with the old deletion
catalog.
- [x] Keep auto-migration disabled on old binaries after schema
expansion; sqlx rejects unknown versions.
- [x] Migration lock timeout 1 s; statement timeout 5 s. Small populated
databases build inline within those budgets; large deployments use
concurrent child-index prebuild/attachment with auto-migration off.
Missing, invalid or wrong indexes fail verification.

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Signed-off-by: Brad Seiler <seiler@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Honor <e0bf479eeebe47dde1e35705212a4df70616a7bc834d907ddfb18cf0405f8b1b@seiler-test.communities.public.builderlabstaging.xyz>
2026-11-06 22:35:00 +00:00
Brad Seiler
2cd40badb8 Manage community NIP-FI policy with enable, disable and status (#9176)
## Summary

Operators can enable, disable and inspect a community's stored NIP-FI
requirement through signed POST/GET
`/operator/communities/nip-fi-policy` and `buzz-admin nip-fi-policy`.
This replaces the old enable-only endpoint and drops the
`nip-fi-upgrade` command added earlier in this PR, along with obsolete
compatibility code.

Each saved intent binds its desired state and observed generation/state.
Every accepted new intent advances the generation, including same-state
changes. Committed retries recover history without reapplying policy;
stale requests are refused. Current status exposes one pair of reusable
`expected_*` preconditions. Historical receipts remain readable after
policy changes or target deletion, including old rows with null
preconditions. Their UUIDs cannot be reused for new requests.

Migration 0085 stays additive; main’s default-channel recovery migration
retains version 0084. It preserves old receipt rows and INSERT
compatibility. Operator instructions cover use, recovery and client
migration: [usage
guide](33a1c0bb87/docs/operator-nip-fi-upgrade.md),
[client
contract](33a1c0bb87/docs/operator-nip-fi-policy-client.md).

### Rollout and containment

The old `/operator/communities/nip-fi-upgrade` route is removed; GET and
POST return 404 without its old auth handler. A pending sponsorship
client still targets that route. Migrate that client to the supported
API and deploy it with mutation dispatch paused before this relay
version reaches its fleet. Its complete CAS preconditions must be
durably saved before first dispatch and reused unchanged after a crash
or lost response. This is a pending integration dependency, not a claim
that the caller is deployed.

Close `BUZZ_NIP_FI_UPGRADES_ENABLED` on every old relay. Keep
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_CHANGES=false` on new relays. Apply schema first and finish
the whole-fleet rollout before opening the new gate and resuming
migrated clients. Before opening the new gate, verify the deployed
artifact SHA on every pod and probe each pod directly: the old route
must return 404, and a fresh, well-formed, signed policy request with a
new UUID must return 503 `upgrades_disabled`. A committed retry is not a
gate probe. Old pods with the old gate open can still accept unfenced
enables. Do not roll back to those writers after a policy operation. The
old variable is no longer read by this version; the new gate defaults
off and controls both directions.

Read accepted intent in `receipt`, current preconditions/effective
policy through status, and effective discovery through `/info`. Enable
stays `pending` because receipts cannot certify fleet-wide socket
closure. Under global `enforce`, stored disable leaves FI effectively
required. Closing the gate preserves receipt recovery; use a fresh CAS
disable or existing archive controls for containment. Preserve uncertain
requests and their UUIDs. This PR performs no live state change or
deployment.

### Related issue

N/A

### Testing

Published repair head: `33a1c0bb87a6fa10212eb4ec60788e24189627e2`,
incorporating main `39d5159caf`. The Git policy guards now apply only to
matched paths. Unknown GET/POST paths on relays without a web directory
return 404 instead of inheriting the internal endpoint’s 403. The
matched internal endpoint retains its localhost restriction and 1 MB
body limit, including its method fallback. The signed removed-route 404
assertion is unchanged.

Main’s migration 0084 is unchanged; the additive policy migration is now
0085 with identical SQL. Its populated-receipt upgrade test starts at
schema 84. Formatting and commit hooks pass; independent source review
has no findings. At this exact head, formatting, all-target Clippy (`-D
warnings`, relay/db/admin/pubsub), and test compilation (relay/db/admin,
`--lib --tests --no-run`) pass with exit 0. The full native PostgreSQL
lane passes: 1,373/1,373 tests, exit 0, including the unchanged signed
removed-route 404 assertion, fresh-database migration and populated
receipt upgrade from main schema 84 to 85. The first full package run
used an uninitialized private database and stopped with two
missing-table errors; that failed attempt is retained. After schema
initialization and verification, the corrected full package rerun
passes: 2,041/2,041 tests, exit 0 (1,396 skipped by unit selection). The
separate PostgreSQL lane skips 2,064 tests by its selection. Both full
runs use the exact published repair head. Hosted CI remains pending. The
new router test reproduced the old failure with the exact localhost-only
response body; the new production-router regression also passes in the
corrected package run. Four individual guard mutations are running
serially; their assertion-failure receipts and the restored final green
run remain pending.

Brad authorized one `git push --no-verify` of this repair conditional on
passing lint and compilation. Those gates passed; the push exited 0 and
both the remote branch and GitHub PR SHA were verified as
`33a1c0bb87a6fa10212eb4ec60788e24189627e2`. The normal publication
attempt was stopped before completion and its log is retained. This
exception leaves remaining tests and acceptance requirements
outstanding.

Historical evidence below applies to the earlier published head, not the
published repair.

Published head: `d31793ccbcdfd748361bcd559358915862b5ed57`. This
integrates main's missing `ChannelEvent.received_at` fixture correction
and corrects the newly integrated initial-policy test to use
`nip_fi_changes`, with matching documentation. Independent source review
has no open findings. At this exact head, all-target Clippy with `-D
warnings` passes for buzz-relay, buzz-db, buzz-admin and buzz-pubsub;
independent Clippy and formatting checks also passed.

The normal push hooks failed (push exit 1):
- Rust: `buzz-acp` recovery test hit its 15-second test deadline.
Nextest completed 844/1101 tests: 843 passed, 1 failed, 3 skipped; 257
were not run.
- Tauri: `buzz-terminal` login-shell test received no child output
within its 10-second test deadline; 26 passed, 1 failed.
- Mobile: gallery test `2 trailing images match carousel at 208.0, scale
1.0` expected no loading placeholders and found two; 4,524 passed, 60
skipped, 1 failed.

These are two test-level deadline failures and one assertion failure,
not compiler errors. The failing source paths are unchanged from main
`6c3ffd160b`; no baseline reproduction or flaky classification is
claimed. Desktop JS checks/tests/typecheck, branch-skew and file-size
checks passed. Full hooks are not reported as passing. The first hosted
PostgreSQL run at d31793cc failed the removed-route assertion (expected
404, got 403); the router repair above addresses that failure. That
hosted run’s Rust unit, Tauri and mobile jobs passed.

Historical d31793cc publication exception: Brad explicitly authorized a
single `git push --no-verify` for this head on 2026-11-06 after the
failed normal-hook run. That push exited 0 and its remote SHA was
verified. Failed-hook evidence is retained. The earlier `cf2c9ba599`
publication also used an explicit exception. Neither exception waives
outstanding validation, review or human acceptance before merge.

Historical evidence at `5b2eb6f09366b8a8f480a5fc61e8e5368f62302d`: 2,006
affected-package tests and 32 disposable-relay checks passed. These
predate the latest main merge and are not final-head evidence. Earlier
native PostgreSQL and separate `just ci` / `just test` attempts were
incomplete, interrupted or failed and are not passing results.

No staging run or human runtime confirmation is claimed. This PR is not
a draft and is ready for review; readiness does not attest human runtime
confirmation.

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Co-authored-by: Honor <e0bf479eeebe47dde1e35705212a4df70616a7bc834d907ddfb18cf0405f8b1b@seiler-test.communities.public.builderlabstaging.xyz>
2026-11-06 22:07:31 +00:00
Helen Tian
39d5159caf [buzz] Recover interrupted default-channel auto-joins (#9045)
**Bug**

Default channels are channels that new community members should join
automatically. If the database could not list those channels—for
example, because its connection pool was busy—an invite claim or an
in-app admin add still admitted the member to the community. That member
could then remain outside the default channels permanently.

**Cause**

Community admission was saved before channel joins started. If listing
the channels failed, the relay logged the error and stopped. Retrying
the invite or admin add did not help: the member already existed, so the
relay skipped the joins.

**Fix**

Save a marker for unfinished channel joins in the same database
transaction as admission. If listing or joining channels fails, keep
that marker. Retry when the member next authenticates, claims the invite
again, or is added again by an admin. One channel's failure does not
stop attempts to join the others.

Retries preserve the existing membership rules:

- A member who leaves a channel during recovery stays out of it.
- Work from an earlier admission cannot add channels or clear pending
work after the member is removed and admitted again. Each admission has
a unique marker, checked under a database lock.
- A reconnect still checks whether the member allows the original admin
to add them to channels.
- Once recovery finishes, later connections do not enroll the member in
newly designated default channels. The operator command `buzz-admin
add-member` continues to add community membership only.

**Limits and rollout risks**

Recovery needs one of those later requests; there is no background retry
timer. This change does not repair members missed before it was
installed.

Channel announcements and notifications keep their existing best-effort
behavior. A failure after channel membership is saved can still lose an
announcement; this change does not replay it.

Migration 0084 adds an optional UUID column to `relay_members`. Apply it
before running the new code. Older relays ignore the column. The
migration has a five-second lock timeout, so it fails rather than
waiting indefinitely for its table lock. It adds no triggers, functions,
procedures, rules, foreign keys, or data backfill.

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Signed-off-by: Helen Tian <htian@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Flipper <1ef64189596befbc8b93f9021bff35ae5d02b155d9e05fc124bca7349927d597@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-11-06 16:27:39 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
38795ada87 fix(db): keep retained fence proofs when a probe fails (#9200)
## Summary

A failed replica fence probe no longer drops the proofs already
retained, so one failed probe no longer sends every read to the writer.

**Why.** `run_probe` called `fence.close()` on any probe error, which
cleared the ring. Until the next successful probe 500 ms later,
`fence.newest()` was `None` and every routed read went to the writer
with `reason="uninitialized"`. Under load this showed up as a steady
share of `bridge_query` reads labelled `uninitialized` on every pod,
while `heartbeat_age` stayed small. The module already documents that a
retained entry's proof never decays: a failed probe proves nothing new,
but it doesn't make an earlier proof wrong. So clearing the ring only
cost reader capacity.

**What changes.** A failed probe logs and records nothing. The retained
entries stand. A probe that keeps failing still closes the fence through
the existing 30 s staleness gate (`FENCE_STALENESS`), and
`heartbeat_age` remains the liveness signal. Regression handling is
unchanged: an epoch change or a same-epoch token regression still clears
the ring in `record()`. `close()` has no production caller left and
becomes a test hook.

**Likely trigger.** The masked-activity check
(`ProbeError::MaskedActivity`) counts a client backend whose state is
`active` with a `NULL` `xact_start` as masked. A backend that has just
started a statement can briefly show as `active` before its `xact_start`
is set, so busy writers hit this transiently. Under pgbench on Postgres
17, between 0.3% and 1.3% of scans saw such a backend. This PR doesn't
change that classification. See the debt below.

No protocol, schema, metric or client change.

### Testing

- `replica_fence::postgres_tests::failed_probe_keeps_retained_proofs`
(new, no database needed, so it runs in the unit lane like its
neighbours): records an entry, runs a probe tick against a closed writer
pool (the probe fails), then asserts `newest()` and `resolve()` still
return the entry, and that a rewound token recorded under the same epoch
after the outage is a `TokenRegression`. Mutation-checked on Blox:
putting `fence.close()` back on the error path fails it, including when
only the regression assertion is left.
- On Blox: the full `buzz-db` Postgres lane, the `buzz-db` unit tests,
`cargo fmt`, clippy for `buzz-db` and `buzz-relay`, and a `buzz-relay`
build.

### Rollout

There's no flag. Rollback is a revert. After deploy, watch:

- `buzz_db_route_decision{decision="writer",reason="uninitialized"}`
should drop to about 0 once a pod has booted, and the
`decision="reader"` share should rise.
- `buzz_db_replica_heartbeat_age_seconds` should stay small. Staleness
is now the only thing that closes the fence on probe failure, so this is
the liveness signal.
- `reason="stale"` may rise a little. `newest()` returns `None` for an
empty ring and for one older than the staleness gate, and both are
labelled `uninitialized`. Bounded reads can also miss the budget for one
tick when a probe beat is missed and fall back as `stale`. Some of
today's `uninitialized` share is expected to move to `stale` rather than
disappear.

## What got simpler

`ReplicaFence::close()` leaves the production API. A probe error now has
one effect (log and keep proving from what's retained) instead of a
second path that discards valid state. The probe loop is split into a
one-tick function that the test calls directly.

Identified, out of scope:
- `buzz_db` warnings, including this probe's failure warning, are
dropped by the relay's default log filter (`buzz_relay=info`), so
operators can't see why a probe fails.
- `MaskedActivity` misclassifies the transient
`active`-without-`xact_start` state. Treating it as not-open looks
sound, because such a backend's transaction starts after the scan, but
it touches the proof and deserves its own review.
- The probe's exclusive advisory lock waits behind channel writers'
shared locks, so a slow writer delays the probe.
- Probe failures have no metric. With retained proofs a failed probe no
longer shows up as `uninitialized` routes, and its warning is filtered
out of the logs (above), so intermittent failures are now invisible. A
probe-failure counter would fix that.
- An epoch rotation that fails still leaves an opening for a restore
that keeps the epoch. `TokenRegression` clears the ring, so if the
rotation `UPDATE` then errors, the next sample stores the rewound token
under the old epoch against an empty ring. This PR doesn't change that
path. A writer-side high-water token kept outside the ring would close
it.
- `newest()` gives the same `uninitialized` label to an empty ring and a
stale one, which hides a dead probe in route metrics.

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Signed-off-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 16:06:11 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
a17243d846 feat(relay): runtime-tunable history-read and AUTH concurrency caps via feature flags (#9170)
## Goal

Give operators a way to relieve database pressure in seconds, without
restarting relay pods. Today every concurrency limit is an environment
variable, so changing one means a rollout. During an incident, that
rollout's restart sets off a reconnect storm of its own.

## What changes

**Two runtime-tunable caps.** Each is read from an integer feature flag
in a new process-wide evaluation context, and re-read every 5 s:

| Flag | Caps | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|
| `buzz.relay.concurrency.history-reads` | subscription-history reads
holding a reader connection (the #9132 gate) | the existing `pool −
pool/5` share, which keeps readers free for authorization |
| `buzz.relay.concurrency.auth` | verified NIP-42 AUTH frames running
their database checks | none (unbounded today) |

- **Flags can only tighten.** A positive value is clamped to the
ceiling. Zero, a negative value, no value, or a provider that never
initialized leaves the gate at its ceiling, which is today's behavior.
Once LaunchDarkly has delivered values, they stay in force through a
later outage, so a cap tightened during an incident survives a provider
blip.
- **Lowering never cancels admitted work.** A lowered gate admits
nothing new until the work in flight falls under the new limit.
- **Visibility:** `buzz_concurrency_limit{gate}` reports the applied
limit (`0` means no limit), and each change logs a line.

**One resizable gate.** `HistoryReadGate` becomes
`buzz_db::ConcurrencyGate`, a FIFO semaphore whose limit can move
anywhere in `1..=ceiling`:
- Lowering it forgets free permits and records any shortfall as debt.
- A permit released while there is debt is retired instead of returned.
- Raising it repays debt first, then adds permits.

All of this, and admission itself, settles against the debt under one
lock, so a newer limit always supersedes an older one; there is no
background resize task to race. Tokio hands a released permit to a
queued waiter before it runs; if that waiter is then cancelled, tokio
returns the permit to the semaphore directly, so admission retires any
permit it gets while debt is outstanding. The AUTH cap uses the same
type.

**AUTH shedding.** The permit is taken after signature verification, so
only real logins queue for the database checks. The wait is bounded at 2
s. A shed login gets a bare close with no `OK`, exactly like an auth
timeout. I chose this from what each client does on main today:
- **`OK false`:** the desktop app retries on an unjittered 60 s ladder.
Mobile parks the session until the app resumes. The agent harness fails
at startup.
- **Bare close:** the desktop app, mobile, the agent harness and the CLI
all reconnect on their jittered, capped backoff.

On the relay, the shed is visible as access line
`denied/concurrency_limit` and as
`buzz_auth_outcomes_total{outcome="concurrency_limit"}`.

**The feature-flag provider is chosen at startup.**
`BUZZ_FEATURE_FLAGS_PROVIDER` takes `static` (the default),
`environment` or `launchdarkly`, with `BUZZ_LAUNCHDARKLY_SDK_KEY` and an
optional `BUZZ_LAUNCHDARKLY_RELAY_PROXY_URL`:
- **Exactly one provider.** The value is parsed into a single provider,
so there is no stacking and no fallback, and the evaluator never changes
for the life of the process. The variable sits outside the
`BUZZ_FEATURE_FLAG_` namespace, so it can never be read as a flag.
- **Startup failures.** Local misconfiguration fails startup: an unknown
provider, a missing key, or a malformed proxy URL. LaunchDarkly being
unreachable, or rejecting the key, does not. The relay starts on
declared defaults, the SDK keeps connecting, and
`buzz_feature_flags_ready{provider}` shows whether the provider has
initialized. A revoked key must not crash-loop every pod over a tuning
knob.
- **Every build carries the LaunchDarkly adapter.** It stays inert
unless selected, so one published image serves every deployment and each
deployment's configuration pins its provider.

## Design-doc amendments (`crates/buzz-feature-flags/README.md`)

- **Provider selection.** The compile-time "exactly one provider"
contract becomes the startup selection above. The only-one guarantee now
holds per process instead of per build.
- **Startup.** Failing closed now covers local configuration only.
- **Guardrails.** "Flags may choose between equivalent implementations
only" gains one exception: a flag may set an operational limit as long
as it can only tighten it, and shedding under that limit stays
retryable.
- **Evaluation context.** `EvaluationContext::for_process()` adds a
process context, which LaunchDarkly sees as a single `relay`-kind
context keyed `relay`.

## What got simpler

- **Removed the compile-time provider contract:** the nested fixture
crate (with its own 2.8k-line `Cargo.lock`), its 229-line contract test,
and the exact-one `compile_error!` guards it required consumers to copy.
One startup parse plus a unit test replaces them.
- **One gate type serves both caps.** The history-read gate became that
generic type instead of gaining a sibling.
- **Net change:** about −2.3k lines.

## Review-Proven Rules applied

- **#1:** shedding is retryable (`PoolTimedOut` → CLOSED for history, a
bare close for AUTH) and never an empty success. Provider failures are
logged and surfaced through a gauge.
- **#2:** the gate settles every limit change and permit release under
one lock. The table test covers lowering while idle, lowering below the
count held, lowering then raising before holders leave, lowering then
raising past the count held, and restoring the ceiling.
- **#3:** the tests drive the production call sites:
`Db::get_channel_window_with_session` under a lowered and raised cap
(Postgres), and `handle_auth` under a full AUTH gate. The controller
test runs the real refresh loop.
- **#4:** values are clamped, waits are bounded, and the refresh runs on
a fixed interval with skipped missed ticks.
- **#9:** AUTH shedding sends clients down their jittered reconnect
backoff rather than an unjittered or terminal path (see above).

## Review rework (`92a975c8`, `3f09cb33`)

- **Keys renamed** to `buzz.relay.concurrency.*`: LaunchDarkly keys
cannot be renamed later, and the flag project may be shared with other
services.
- **Shutdown:** LaunchDarkly's final flush has no deadline of its own,
so `close()` now runs it on a detached thread and waits at most 2 s,
after the audit drain. (The blocking pool would not bound it: the
runtime waits for blocking tasks when it drops.)
- **Refresh loop:** a panicking refresh is caught, logged and counted
(`buzz_concurrency_limit_refresh_panics_total`), and the next tick
retries, so the caps cannot freeze silently.
- **Runbook:** `docs/operator-concurrency-caps.md`, covering how to
tighten a cap and the cases in which a tightened cap returns to its
ceiling (mistyped or deleted flag, pod started during a provider
outage).
- **AUTH test:** asserts the second login passes the gate and returns
its permit; the gate permit is renamed so it no longer shares a name
with the NIP-FI effect permit.

Gated on a Linux workstation at `92a975c8` (`3f09cb33` is rustfmt only;
`cargo fmt --check` passes there): clippy `-D warnings`,
`buzz-feature-flags` (50), `buzz-relay --lib --bins` (1740), the new
modules under parallel `cargo test`, and the Postgres AUTH tests (27).
Each new test fails under its mutant: the refresh without
`catch_unwind`, `close()` with no deadline (hangs until killed), and the
AUTH handler with the gate skipped.

## Testing

Re-run in full at `3c289134` after review rework, on a Linux
workstation:

- `cargo fmt --check`; `cargo clippy -p buzz-feature-flags -p buzz-db -p
buzz-relay --all-targets --all-features -D warnings`.
- `buzz-feature-flags` with and without `launchdarkly` (50 and 24
tests), `buzz-db --lib` (209), and `buzz-relay --lib --bins` (1738),
plus a plain parallel `cargo test` of the new relay modules.
- Postgres: the `buzz-db` routed-read and history-gate tests (55), and
the `buzz-relay` AUTH and connection tests (38).
- `a_cancelled_waiter_cannot_reopen_a_lowered_gate` fails with the debt
check in `admit` removed.
- The new infra-free relay tests are added to the CI unit lane
(`Justfile` and `scripts/run-tests.sh`).
- E2E against a local relay at `06c39d64`: cap gauges, sequential logins
and history under cap 1, a 20-login burst (19 shed with a bare close,
all reconnected), and LaunchDarkly misconfiguration and unreachability.


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Signed-off-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 14:48:06 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
abb2586f8c Pin sqlx to the upstream fix for a cancelled BEGIN (#9192)
## Problem

sqlx 0.9.0 counts a transaction only after Postgres acknowledges its
`BEGIN`. If the future is dropped while `BEGIN` is still in flight (a
cancelled REQ history read, a client that disconnects, a timeout), sqlx
doesn't queue a `ROLLBACK`. The pool's release ping then reads the late
`BEGIN` reply, and the writer pool hands the connection to the next
borrower while it is still inside that transaction. The reader pool
already closes such connections in its release check
(`Db::read_pool_options`). The writer pool has no release check.

Load tests showed what happens next:

- `there is already a transaction in progress` (25001) on the next event
read's `BEGIN`.
- Sometimes a burst of `current transaction is aborted` (25P02). The
leftover from the event read is `READ ONLY`, so the next write fails and
aborts it, and every later statement on that connection fails until the
connection is closed. During a burst, ban checks failed closed with 503
and window reads returned 500.
- A read-write leftover would also leave autocommit writes uncommitted,
and the next read's `ROLLBACK` would discard them.

## Change

- Pin every sqlx crate to transact-rs/sqlx#4394 (merged, not yet
released). That commit takes the transaction count before the `BEGIN`
round trip, so a cancelled begin queues its `ROLLBACK`. The crates share
types, so they have to move together. The pin also picks up the other 23
commits between v0.9.0 and that fix, including the libsqlite3-sys fix
`sqlx-sqlite` was already pinned for.
- Add a regression test,
`writer_pool_postgres_tests::begin_cancelled_in_flight_leaves_no_writer_transaction_open`.
It holds `BEGIN` in flight behind a paused proxy and times it out, for
both the event read's `BEGIN ... READ ONLY` and a plain `begin()`. It
then asserts that the next borrower's autocommit write commits and that
its backend is `idle`, not inside a transaction.

Other upstream changes in the pin that reach the Postgres path:
`TCP_NODELAY` on sockets (transact-rs/sqlx#4336), reuse of the TLS
connector across connection attempts (transact-rs/sqlx#4242), a fix for
a memory leak when the statement cache is disabled
(transact-rs/sqlx#4337), a describe-time generic-plan change used only
by the macros (transact-rs/sqlx#4286), and the `whoami` default-user fix
(transact-rs/sqlx#4303). The rest are SQLite, MySQL, CLI, or docs
changes.

Remove the pin once sqlx 0.9.1 ships.

## What got simpler

The lockfile loses its second `sqlx-core` copy, which the
sqlx-sqlite-only pin used to pull in. No runtime code changes. A
pool-level release check would have fixed the same bug, but it costs a
round trip on every writer release.

Comments that described the 0.9.0 behavior as current are refreshed: the
reader pool's release check (`Db::read_pool_options`) and the lease
heartbeat (`EntityDeletionStore::heartbeat`). The reader test
`proof_timeout_mid_begin_leaves_no_reader_transaction_open` asserted
that the release check closed the connection left mid-`BEGIN`. With the
pin, sqlx rolls that transaction back itself, so the test now asserts
the check finds nothing to close. That also catches a sqlx regression
the check would otherwise hide.

Identified debt (not in this PR): the release check's open-transaction
arm, and the reader-session `default_transaction_isolation` pin it
depends on, are now only a backstop against a sqlx regression. They
could be removed in a follow-up.

## Testing

- Against sqlx 0.9.0 (main's `Cargo.toml`/`Cargo.lock` at 962b3fdd), the
new writer test fails for each `BEGIN` form on its own. The event read
fails with `cannot execute INSERT in a read-only transaction`, and after
a plain `begin()` the next borrower's backend is not `idle`. With the
pin it passes 5/5.
- Single-machine load-test A/B against main (962b3fdd), with three main
runs and two pin runs. Main logged 25001 and 25P02 in every run (41/80,
10/9, 12/18); the pin logged none. Client error rate, latency, and
throughput matched within run-to-run noise.
- Full suite on the pin: every `just ci` recipe, the PostgreSQL lane,
and `just test`. The only failure from the pin was the reader test
above. Reds that don't involve sqlx: the desktop Tauri recipes
(`alsa-sys` needs ALSA headers on the build host),
`mobile-check`/`mobile-test` (a Flutter SDK `ColorScheme` type clash),
and two `buzz-acp` `git_bootstrap` tests (no git credentials on the
host). Two bridge search-timeout tests failed only under the full
parallel lane; run alone they pass on both the pin and 0.9.0.
- Two later commits change only tests, comments, and `Cargo.lock` (the
lock now moves only the sqlx crates). At those heads: the PostgreSQL
lane, the unit lane, and workspace clippy pass. Three tests failed once
under a contended full lane, and each passed 3/3 alone on both the pin
and 0.9.0. The two transaction tests fail on 0.9.0 and pass on the pin.

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Signed-off-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-06 13:07:04 -05:00
Jemiah Westerman
cec47c20a3 perf(db): hydrate search hits with exact event timestamps (#9126)
## Summary

Keep each search hit's existing signed `created_at` alongside its event
ID during canonical hydration. WebSocket search, HTTP search, and
profile-name search now use a bounded exact-pair database lookup so
PostgreSQL can prune unrelated event months. Also constrain
channel-create replay detection by the timestamp of the
already-available signed event.

## Scope / compatibility

- Combined-tree verification also passed: repository-wide `just ci`, 220
unit/source-policy tests, and the full 722-test buzz-db/search
PostgreSQL suite. All three temporary timestamp-constraint mutations
were killed by functional/plan assertions and restored.
- Independent of companion post-insert push and deletion PRs; based
directly on `main`.
- Deploy/code-only change. No schema/migrations/backfills, persistent or
serialized formats, indexes, triggers, functions, procedures, rules, or
foreign keys added.
- Existing ID-only event APIs remain available for callers without
timestamps.
- Maximum 500 input pairs, validated before checkout; duplicate inputs
do not multiply results; missing/deleted/wrong-community/wrong-timestamp
hits are omitted.
- Caller ordering, authorization, observability, bounded-only replica
routing, proved connection use, non-cancel fallback, and cancellation
propagation remain intact. A timestamp is not treated as a completeness
proof.
- Existing/new relays coexist against unchanged schema; no
rollout/prebuild dependency.

## Verification

- Compiled `buzz-db`, `buzz-search`, and `buzz-relay` library/tests.
- 220 infrastructure-free unit/source-policy tests passed.
- 35 focused PostgreSQL tests passed, including cross-month exact pairs,
tenant/deleted/missing scope, same-second IDs,
duplicate/empty/invalid/oversized/full batches,
routing/fallback/cancellation, channel replay, and existing search
regressions.
- `EXPLAIN ANALYZE BUFFERS` of production hydration SQL verifies only
requested event months execute under forced custom **and generic**
plans, including the full **500-distinct-pair** shape. A wrong-timestamp
decoy detects cross-product matching.
- Targeted clippy with `-D warnings`, formatting, diff checks,
PostgreSQL discovery, and differential file-size checks passed.
- Live isolated relay smoke: exact channel-create replay, HTTP NIP-50
search hydration, profile-name search hydration, and authenticated
WebSocket NIP-50 results/EOSE. All three hydration route labels observed
in local metrics.
- Independent review completed; optional maximum-batch plan coverage
added and independently re-reviewed. Compile fixes for SQLx 0.9 API
compatibility verified.

No production latency improvement or workload-percentage claim is made.

---------

Signed-off-by: Jemiah Westerman <jemiah@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Son of Anton <8e0ef2ab02d69a7ac089ef5eca90d1a3fbbdc546f6322dc34d0c4f3deecea7f4@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-05 15:43:28 -08:00
Jemiah Westerman
997ce3a2c9 perf(db): prune post-commit push enqueue by signed event timestamp (#9128)
## Summary

Carry each inserted event's signed `created_at` through the existing
in-memory, post-commit push enqueue path. The worker now looks up the
source event by community, ID **and exact timestamp**, allowing
PostgreSQL to prune unrelated monthly partitions.

All seven direct insert-followup hooks forward the timestamp already
bound into their INSERT. No receipt-time or causal-order inference is
used.

## Scope / compatibility

- Combined-tree verification also passed: repository-wide `just ci`, 220
unit/source-policy tests, and the full 722-test buzz-db/search
PostgreSQL suite. All three temporary timestamp-constraint mutations
were killed by functional/plan assertions and restored.
- Independent of the companion search-hydration and deletion PRs; based
directly on `main`.
- Deploy/code-only change. No migrations, backfills, schema changes, new
indexes, triggers, functions, rules, procedures, or foreign keys.
- No persistent/serialized payload changes: `push_match_queue` and
`push_wake_outbox` remain unchanged. Their later ID-only lookups are
outside this PR.
- Admission/gate ordering, commit-only submission, savepoint rollback
behavior, duplicate suppression, bounded queues, best-effort drops, and
existing lock/statement/client deadlines are retained.
- Existing and new relay versions can coexist against the unchanged
schema; no rollout ordering or operator prebuild is required.

## Verification

- Compiled `buzz-db`, `buzz-search`, and `buzz-relay` library/tests.
- 218 infrastructure-free unit/source-policy tests passed.
- 12 focused PostgreSQL tests passed, including new timestamp
propagation and savepoint tests plus existing follow-up/admission/gate
regressions.
- `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` of the exact production enqueue INSERT verifies a
single event month executes under forced custom and generic prepared
plans.
- Targeted clippy with `-D warnings`, formatting, diff checks,
PostgreSQL discovery, and differential file-size checks passed.
- Live isolated relay smoke: channel creation/replay, signed message
ingestion/readback, and completed post-commit enqueue worker metric.
Test lease had empty subscriptions; no push gateway was contacted.
- Independent local review completed: no remaining blockers.

No production latency improvement or workload percentage is claimed;
this establishes the pruning mechanism and behavior preservation.

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Signed-off-by: Jemiah Westerman <jemiah@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Son of Anton <8e0ef2ab02d69a7ac089ef5eca90d1a3fbbdc546f6322dc34d0c4f3deecea7f4@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-05 15:43:02 -08:00
Matt Toohey
a22ff133b4 test(relay,db): remove three timing races from Postgres and E2E tests (#9098)
## Summary

Three tests asserted on outcomes that depended on how fast something
unordered happened. The first depended on dial latency inside a 150 ms
acquire budget, the second on whether two aux-page replies landed in one
poll, and the third on whether NIP-42 admission auto-joined the joiner
before the invite claim did. Each test now sets up the state it asserts
before the racing actor can run: it fills the reader warm floor first,
pauses the writer's proxy after the first aux page, or claims the invite
before the joiner connects. Only tests change. No assertions are
loosened, and no sleeps, retries or timeouts are added.

### test(db): fill the reader warm floor outside the acquire budget
first

#### Problem

`reader_warm_at_production_budget_ends_partial_when_dials_stall` failed
on main at reader_pool_postgres_tests.rs:177, "one partial wave, then
one wave that opens nothing": left (15, 0, 5), right (15, 3, 7).
Postgres lanes run with no retries.
- main (d3a4909cc):
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41693681008/job/126127000284

The test is unchanged on current main.

#### Cause

The test builds the reader pool with the production constructor, so
every warm acquire, dial included, gets the 150 ms
`READER_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT`. It relayed the proxy's first 3 sessions and
stalled the rest, so it needed the first wave's 3 relayed dials (TCP
through the proxy, backend fork, SCRAM, `after_connect`) to finish
inside that budget. On a loaded runner (4 vCPUs, nextest test-threads=8)
none did. All 5 first-wave acquires missed, and the pass ended after one
empty wave as the product should, which gives (15, 0, 5). The warm pass
was correct, but the test's outcome depended on dial latency.

The session counts had a second race. The proxy accepts connections on
the test's current-thread runtime. If that thread is descheduled past
the budget, the timed-out acquires and the listener's readiness are
handled in the same tick. So `proxy.sessions() == 10`, checked right
after the pass, could miss a stalled dial still waiting to be accepted.

#### Fix

Fill the warm floor before stalling anything, as boot does.
`Db::read_pool_boot_ping_once` closes its probe connection, and sqlx's
floor maintenance then dials the 3 floor connections under its own 300 s
deadline, outside the acquire budget. The test waits for them with
`await_idle_floor`, then stalls every session from the recorded baseline
(`proxy.stall_from(proxy.sessions())`) instead of a hardcoded 3. Wave 1
now holds the 3 idle connections without dialing, and its 2 dials stall.
Wave 2's 5 dials stall, so it makes no progress and the pass ends. That
gives (15, 3, 7) at any dial latency. The session count is now relative
to the baseline and asserted once, after the existing settle. That
single check covers both "the pass stops dialing" and "nothing
re-dials". The report assertion, the `elapsed < 2s` bound and the
production pool are unchanged. Only the test changes.

The setup still needs one of the boot ping's five attempts (spaced over
about 4 s by `READER_BOOT_PROBE_BACKOFF`) to dial within 150 ms, the
same exposure as `reader_boot_ping_warms_pool_to_min_connections`.
Before, all 3 concurrent first-wave dials had to make it on their first
try.

#### Validation

Local Linux workstation, on a private postgres:17-alpine. The test
processes and Postgres shared 4 pinned CPUs, with 8 parallel workers.
"Before" is the test as on main.
- CPU stress, no busy loops: before, 2/40 failed with (15, 0, 5) at
:177, the CI signature. After, 120/120 passed.
- Plus 4 busy loops on those CPUs: before, 80/80 failed with (15, 0, 5).
After, 80/80 passed. In 80 more instrumented runs (all passed), the boot
ping retried 16 times: 15 runs needed 2 attempts and 1 needed 3.
- Adversarial latency, using a temporary, uncommitted proxy hook that
delays chosen sessions' first server reply by 200 ms (past the budget),
10 runs each:
- every relayed session slow: before, 10/10 (15, 0, 5). After, 10/10
failed at "boot ping must reach the reader", the bound above.
- the first 4 sessions slow: before, 10/10 (15, 0, 5). After, 10/10
passed, with the ping succeeding on its 5th attempt.
- every session but the first slow: before, 10/10 (15, 1, 9). After,
10/10 passed.
- Production mutations, each of which fails the test: dropping the
no-progress break gives (15, 3, 27). A 2 s acquire budget fails the
elapsed bound at 4.0 s. Closing the warmed connections instead of
releasing them leaves the floor at 0 idle.
- All 7 `reader_pool_postgres_tests` pass. `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo
clippy -p buzz-db --all-targets -- -D warnings` and `git diff --check`
are clean.

A green run doesn't prove the flake is gone. Hosted CI covers broad
validation.

**Rebased onto origin/main `64d12e297` (this branch):** Linux
workstation, private `postgres:16` container with the desired-state
schema applied as in the PostgreSQL lane (pgschema plus the reconcile
script).

- `cargo test -p buzz-db`: 191 lib, 21 `observability_source` and 5 doc
tests passed.
- `cargo test -p buzz-db --lib reader_pool_postgres_tests -- --ignored
--test-threads=1`: 7/7 passed.
`reader_warm_at_production_budget_ends_partial_when_dials_stall` alone:
20/20 passed.
- `cargo clippy -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay -p buzz-test-client
--all-targets -- -D warnings`, `cargo fmt -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay -p
buzz-test-client -- --check` and `git diff --check` are clean.

### test(relay): hold the writer's second aux page too

#### Problem

`thread_window_batch_discards_earlier_windows_after_revocation` failed
on main at failure_postgres_tests.rs:55, "barrier must precede closure
completion": left 2, right 1. Postgres lanes run with no retries.
- main (d3a4909cc):
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41693681008/job/126127000284

The test and the code it covers are unchanged on current main.

#### Cause

This is the race #8740 (322fdbf08) fixed for the replica test only.
`pause_after_aux_page` polls the request until a `thread_window_aux`
span closes, then expects exactly one closed. `query` runs the closure's
two aux hops (reactions and edits, then their deletions) back to back,
one span each. On the writer, each hop is a pool acquire with its idle
ping, BEGIN, two SET LOCALs, the SELECT and ROLLBACK. #8740 left the
writer callers on `None`, so only the request returning Pending on a
reply that had not arrived yet held hop 2. sqlx tries each read before
it waits for readiness, and tokio leaves the socket marked readable
after the previous reply, so a reply Postgres has already sent is
consumed in the same poll. If each of hop 2's replies lands before the
test thread reads it, for example when a loaded runner deschedules that
thread after its writes, hop 2 closes in the poll that closed hop 1 and
the barrier counts 2. `assert_aux_access_change`, behind the grant and
revocation tests, uses the same `None` path.

#### Fix

`proxied_state` gives the paused request a copy of the fixture's state
whose production writer connects through a `PausingProxy`.
`production_db_at` is `production_db` with a URL override. `AuxPages`
pauses the proxy when hop 1's span closes. That runs inside the
request's poll, before hop 2's first bytes are written, so hop 2 stays
pending however fast Postgres answers. Each test resumes the proxy after
its access change, just before `request.await`. Only the request uses
the proxied state: `assert_aux_access_change` reads through the
fixture's direct `state.db` while the request is held, and through the
proxy that read would deadlock. No caller passes `None` any more, so the
`Option` goes. Only tests change. No assertions are loosened, and no
sleeps, retries or timeouts are added.

Draft #8991 (BUZZ-512) also edits `AuxPages` and `pause_after_aux_page`,
adding a waker for its detached HTTP handler. It also moves these two
callers onto a proxy, through its own `proxy_request_pool`, which
replaces `f.state.db` with a raw pool. Rebasing it onto this keeps its
waker on the non-`Option` proxy field and can use `proxied_state` for
those two callers.

#### Validation

Local Linux workstation, Postgres 17 in docker, one test per process as
nextest runs them. "Before" is the test as on main.
- Adversarial ordering, using a temporary, uncommitted change as in
#8740: after the barrier, ten more polls of the request over 500 ms,
then the barrier's count assertion. Before, the batch, grant and
revocation tests failed 30/30 at that assertion with left 2, right 1,
the CI signature, and the replica test passed 10/10. After, 40/40
passed.
- Natural contention: the three tests and a private postgres:17-alpine
shared 2 pinned CPUs with 4 busy loops, 3 processes at a time. Before,
450/450 passed, so the same-poll burst did not occur locally. After,
450/450 passed.
- Production mutation: skipping `query_batch`'s final implicit
access-set check fails all three tests with 200 instead of 503.
- All 19 `api::bridge::thread_window` Postgres tests pass, run serially
against one database. `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-relay
--all-targets -- -D warnings` (1.98.1), `git diff --check` and
`check-postgres-test-discovery.py` are clean.

Running several of these tests in one libtest process can fail them at
:41 with no aux span seen, on main too. tracing-core builds a new
callsite's interest from the registering thread's default while only one
scoped dispatcher exists. nextest runs one test per process, so CI is
not exposed. The runs above use one process per test.

A green run doesn't prove the flake is gone. Hosted CI covers broad
validation.

**Rebased onto origin/main `64d12e297` (this branch):** same database
setup as above.

- Each of the 19 `api::bridge::thread_window` Postgres tests ran in its
own process and its own database cloned from the desired-state template,
as nextest runs them: 19/19 passed.
- The batch, grant, revocation and replica tests, 5 more runs each in
the same way: 20/20 passed.

### test(relay): claim the invite before the joiner connects

#### Problem

`test_invite_claim_auto_joins_default_channel`
(crates/buzz-test-client/tests/e2e_relay.rs) failed in "Relay and
PostgreSQL / Relay E2E" at :363 with "recv kind:44100 notification for
the default channel: Timeout". Two of the three reruns passed.

- run 41568808045 attempt 1 (rerun passed):
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41568808045/job/125701098947
- run 41657074260:
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41657074260/job/125997465078
- run 41716543775 attempt 1 (rerun passed):
-
https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/41716543775/job/126206390776

#### Cause

The e2e relay runs without `BUZZ_REQUIRE_RELAY_MEMBERSHIP`, so every
human NIP-42 admission spawns `auto_join_never_joined_channels`
(handlers/auth.rs). The test connected the joiner and sent its
kind:44100 REQ before minting and claiming the invite. The admission
therefore joined the joiner to the flagged channel before the claim did.
The claim's `auto_join_default_channels` then got `AlreadyMember` and
emitted nothing, so the admission notice was the only kind:44100.

All three relay logs show this. The joiner's "auto-joined default
channel on admission" appears 39, 52 and 106 ms after its NIP-42 auth,
before "relay member added via v2 invite". The claim logs no join for
the joiner.

When the admission notice reached the client before EOSE,
`collect_until_eose` consumed it, and the test discarded that result.
The test then waited 5 s for a live event that never came. When the
notice arrived after EOSE, the test passed, but on the admission path.
Either way, the test never covered the claim-time auto-join it is named
for.

#### Fix

Only the test changes. The joiner opens no WebSocket until the claim
returns. Over NIP-98, the claim awaits the join, the kind:39002 roster
and the kind:44100 before its 200. The test now:

- checks the roster before the joiner connects, so only the claim can
have joined them;
- then connects and REQs kind:44100 `#p=joiner` with `since` taken
before the claim (minus the file's usual 5 s margin);
- asserts that the events `collect_until_eose` returns hold exactly one
notice for the channel, signed by the relay's NIP-11 `self` key.

Nothing depends on EOSE-vs-live ordering any more. The admission that
follows skips the channel, because the claim already added a member row.
No timeouts change, no retries are added, and no assertions are
loosened. The repeat-claim and cleanup steps are unchanged.

No open PR touches this test. Draft #9045 (default-channel recovery)
changes invites.rs, but not this test or this ordering.

#### Validation

Local Linux workstation, fresh database, relay started by
scripts/start-relay-for-tests.sh. Redis was the host's own, and
`BUZZ_METRICS_PORT` was moved off 9102, which bloxlet owns. Each
iteration ran CI's `e2e_relay invite` selection (8 tests in parallel).

- Unmodified test: 12/60 failed at :363 with the CI message.
- Adversarial ordering, using temporary, uncommitted changes: a 500 ms
sleep between connect and REQ, plus logging of what `collect_until_eose`
returned. 20/20 failed with the CI signature, and each time
`collect_until_eose` had returned the channel's notice. In the relay
log, the admission join came 28 ms after auth, the REQ queued one event,
and the claim emitted nothing.
- Fixed test: 100/100 passed. With the same 500 ms sleep: 30/30 passed,
each with exactly one notice, from the claim. Four concurrent loops of
25: 100/100 passed.
- Falsifiability, using a temporary relay build without the claim-time
`auto_join_default_channels` call: the fixed test failed 10/10 at the
roster assertion (`None`). The old test passed 18/20 against that build;
its two failures were its own :363 flake.
- The full CI "Relay E2E tests" step list passed once.
- `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-test-client --tests -D
warnings`, `just file-size-check` and `git diff --check` are clean.

A green run doesn't prove the flake is gone. Hosted CI covers broad
validation.

**Rebased onto origin/main `64d12e297` (this branch):** the relay was
built from this branch with `--profile ci` (its relay code is identical
to main) and run with CI's environment. It used a fresh desired-state
database with the deployment community seeded, the host's Redis, and a
private MinIO-compatible container (the image docker-compose pins) for
the startup git probe. `BUZZ_METRICS_PORT` was moved off 9102.

- CI's `e2e_relay invite` selection: 30/30 iterations passed, 8 tests
each.
- CI's full "Relay E2E tests" step list, once: 10 of 11 steps passed.
`test_nip29_announce_channel_wire` failed at e2e_relay.rs:3862: the
kind:39000 metadata still carried `auto_join` right after the relay
owner cleared it. This branch doesn't touch that test or any relay code.
Run alone against the same relay, that test failed 8 of 20 times.
Re-running the whole step against one database isn't meaningful, because
`test_nip29_announce_channel_wire_overlong_name_is_refused_before_storage`
reuses a fixed channel name.

## Coordination

- #8991 ("BUZZ-512: Track session application and drain") edits
`AuxPages` and `pause_after_aux_page` in
`crates/buzz-relay/src/api/bridge/thread_window/postgres_tests/failure_postgres_tests.rs`,
and `git merge-tree` shows a conflict there. #8991 already conflicts
with main in 15 files, so it needs a rebase anyway. The second commit's
message describes that rebase: keep #8991's waker on the non-`Option`
proxy field, and use `proxied_state` for the two callers it moves onto a
proxy.
- #6642 and #7569 touch `crates/buzz-test-client/tests/e2e_relay.rs` and
merge cleanly with this branch.
- #7852 touches `thread_window/postgres_tests.rs` and `e2e_relay.rs`. It
already conflicts with main, and this branch adds no new conflicted file
to it. Older open PRs that touch `e2e_relay.rs` also already conflict
with main, and none gains a new conflict from this branch.

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2026-11-06 09:28:38 +11:00
Luke Tornquist
47be2e2d3f fix(db): keep busy-reader history reads off the writer and cap them per pod (#9132)
## Problem

A routed read that misses the reader's 150ms acquire budget
(`reader_acquire_timeout`) falls back to the writer, whatever the read
is. Under a burst of subscription-history reads (REQ history, channel
and thread windows, feeds, search hydration, COUNT), the reader pool
fills, and every miss moves a heavy history query onto the writer. There
it competes with the authentication, tenant-resolution and moderation
lookups that only the writer serves, and their latency climbs with it.
Nothing bounds how many history reads a pod sends to the reader at once,
so the reader queue grows without limit as well.

Separately, the compatibility families
`buzz_db_pool_acquire_wait_seconds` and
`buzz_db_pool_acquisitions_total` have no `operation` label, so a
breakdown by operation reports every sample as unlabelled.

## Changes

1. **History reads no longer spill onto the writer when the reader is
busy** (`Db::route_read`). `route_read` now returns
`Result<RouteDecision>`. For `ReaderOperation::SubscriptionHistory`, a
`reader_acquire_timeout` on a saturated reader pool rejects the read
with `sqlx::Error::PoolTimedOut`. Saturated means every connection the
pool may hold exists and none is idle (`Db::reader_saturated`). The
check is needed because sqlx also reports a reader that refuses dials as
`PoolTimedOut`, and that reader is down, not busy. The relay already
answers that with its generic retryable `CLOSED` `error: database
error`, so there is no new client contract. A reader that is wrong
rather than busy (unreachable, validation failure, proof timeout, stale
token) and prechecks that never reach the reader still fall back to the
writer. Authorization reads (`is_relay_member`) keep the writer fallback
unchanged.
2. **Per-pod cap on reader-served history reads**
(`runtime/history_reads.rs`). A FIFO `tokio::sync::Semaphore` admits at
most the reader pool size less one fifth (at least one) history reads at
once. For example, the default pool of 20 admits 16. The remaining
connections are normally free for authorization reads. A read waits at
most 1s for a permit and is otherwise rejected the same way. The permit
is owned by the reader transaction (`ReaderTx`) and released when the
transaction is dropped; routed reads drop it before re-running a failed
replica read on the writer. That holds whether the transaction is a
per-call routed read or a `ReadSession` the relay keeps for follow-up
queries. The cap bounds history transactions, not connections: sqlx
returns a dropped transaction's connection asynchronously through the
reader release check. Released connections can therefore briefly occupy
the free slots, for one round trip normally and at most the 5s release
timeout when sockets stall. In that window, authorization reads fall
back to the writer as before, and history reads on the saturated pool
are rejected, not spilled.
3. **Rejections are observable**:
`buzz_db_route_decision{decision="rejected",reason="history_read_cap"|"reader_acquire_timeout"}`.
4. **Legacy pool families gain `operation`.** The population is
unchanged, and summing over `operation` gives the original series.
5. **HTTP reads answer 503 `database unavailable` when the database
can't be reached** (`api::db_read_error`). This covers a pool timeout,
closed pool or socket failure on `POST /query`, `/count` and every
bridge `/query` branch that serves a history read (channel window, the
three feeds, thread replies), including a shed history read. These used
to return a generic 500. The thread-window path already answered 503 for
pool timeouts; this applies the same mapping to the shared helper.

Pool sizes are unchanged on purpose. A larger pool adds lock contention
on the writer rather than relieving it.

Docs: `deploy/charts/buzz/README.md` (operator contract) and
`PLANS/REPLICA_FULL_READ_ROUTING_DESIGN.md` (fail-closed exceptions).

## What got simpler

The concept count is roughly flat. Instead of a caller-side permit, the
permit lives in the one type every replica transaction already flows
through (`RouteDecision::Replica` / `ReadSessionInner::Replica`). The 11
routed call sites change only by a `?`, and the compiler enforces that
change: a call site cannot silently fall through to the writer on a
rejection. No new error variant, CLOSED reason or env var.

## Tests

-
`postgres_tests::saturated_reader_spends_one_acquire_budget_and_rejects_history_reads`
(rewrites the former
`routed_fallback_spends_one_acquire_budget_when_aurora_cache_is_cold`).
A size-1 reader is held saturated with a cold Aurora cache. A history
read (`count_events_routed`) is rejected with `PoolTimedOut` within one
acquire budget, records `rejected/reader_acquire_timeout`, and releases
its permit. An authorization read on the same reader still falls back as
`writer/reader_acquire_timeout`.
- `postgres_tests::match_nothing_reads_take_no_connection` (unchanged):
its control still requires a history read against an unreachable reader
to fall back to the writer. It caught the first cut of this change,
which rejected that read.
-
`postgres_tests::history_permit_follows_the_read_session_and_a_full_gate_rejects`:
a held replica `ReadSession` keeps its permit. With the gate full, the
next history read waits the full permit budget and is then rejected as
`rejected/history_read_cap`, with no writer route recorded. Dropping the
session frees the permit and the next read routes to the replica.
- `history_reads::tests`: a cap sizing table, plus bounded-wait
rejection and reopen under paused time.
- `observability` label tests now require `operation` on both legacy
families.
-
`api::db_read_error_tests::unavailable_database_maps_to_retryable_503`:
pool timeout, closed pool and I/O map to 503 `database unavailable`.
Other errors stay 500.
-
`postgres_tests::shed_history_read_maps_to_503_on_every_bridge_branch`:
with the reader saturated, `/query` channel-window, mentions,
needs_action, activity and thread-reply requests each answer 503
`database unavailable` (each serves 200 beforehand).
- Mutation-checked on Blox: re-enabling the writer spill, forcing the
saturation check either way, skipping the gate, dropping the permit
early and removing the legacy label each fail a test.

## Residual

- During a reader failover whose old sockets stall, both slots sit in
the release check, so the pool reads as saturated. History reads are
shed as retryable for up to the release bound (5s) instead of loading
the writer.
`stalled_reader_sessions_release_their_slots_for_new_connections` now
retries through that window and still requires recovery onto the reader.
- A reader that accepts no TCP at all can fill the pool with in-flight
dials and look saturated. Its history reads are then rejected rather
than moved to the writer, which is the same outcome as a full gate.
- Shedding relies on clients backing off on a retryable `CLOSED` (RPR
#9). WebSocket clients already treat `error: database error` as
retryable.

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2026-11-05 22:12:30 +00:00
Luke Tornquist
ff15c347c2 fix(db): auto-migrate prebuild-guarded indexes on small databases (#8802)
## Problem

Migrations `0076`, `0078` and `0081` raise an exception on any table
with at least one row unless its index was prebuilt with `CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY`. A relay that runs migrations at startup
(`BUZZ_AUTO_MIGRATE`, on by default in the Helm chart) and has data in
those tables therefore crash-loops on upgrade:

```
migration error: while executing migration 81: error returned from database:
prebuild idx_nip_fi_profile_heads_names concurrently; see docs/profile-search.md
```

`0081` (#9019) hits every auto-migrating relay that has published NIP-FI
verified profiles. `0076`/`0078` (#8523) hit any relay with artifact
data or channel members. Each of these tables is small enough on such
relays that a plain index build takes milliseconds.

The root cause is `docs/database.md` Rule 6. It told authors that an
index on a populated table MUST be built concurrently by an operator
ahead of time, so migrations were written to refuse populated tables.
With auto-migration that refusal is a crash loop, not a safe stop.

## Fix

The migrations are already applied on some databases, so they can't be
edited: sqlx would reject the changed checksums. Instead,
`run_migrations_locked` builds their missing indexes first. For each
entry in `INLINE_INDEX_BUILDS` (`0076`, `0078`, `0081`), it runs
migrations through the version before it, then builds any missing index.

Each build is a plain `CREATE INDEX` in its own transaction, under the
same 1s `lock_timeout` and 5s `statement_timeout` the migrations use.
That is the bounded inline build `0049` already does:

- **Small populated databases** upgrade the same way empty ones do.
- **Large databases** still fail closed. Only a lock or statement
timeout (`55P03` / `57014`) gets the "prebuild concurrently" hint,
pointing at that migration's own doc. Other errors pass through
unchanged. The blocked migration is not recorded.
- **Prebuilt indexes** are found with `to_regclass` and skipped before
`CREATE INDEX`, so deployments that prebuilt concurrently never request
the writer-conflicting lock.
- **Invalid prebuilt indexes** are left for the migration to reject, as
before.

`CONCURRENTLY` is not used in this path. The runner holds the migration
advisory lock, and another replica blocked on that lock holds a snapshot
that a concurrent build would wait on.

### Rules

- `docs/database.md` Rule 6: with `BUZZ_AUTO_MIGRATE` on, every
migration must apply its own change on a populated database and must
never refuse one because it has rows. A new index is built inline under
the migration's budgets. Only deployments that apply migrations out of
band (auto-migration off) prebuild concurrently.
- Root `AGENTS.md` (step 4) and `migrations/AGENTS.md` repeat the
never-refuse rule.
- `docs/artifact-sync-deployment.md` and `docs/profile-search.md`
describe the startup behavior first and the concurrent prebuild as the
out-of-band path.

## Tests

- `populated_database_auto_migrates_through_every_migration` (Postgres)
migrates to `0075`, seeds artifact rows, and checks four phases:
1. **Lock held:** while a writer lock is held, the `0076` build fails
closed.
2. **Index prebuilt:** with the `0076` index prebuilt, the build is
skipped.
3. **Partial `0078`:** a blocked `0078` build keeps the builds before it
committed.
4. **Verified profile seeded:** with a verified profile head inserted
before `0081`, a final startup succeeds. It asserts that the applied
versions equal every embedded migration and that all six indexes are
valid, ready and live.
- `frozen_prebuild_guards_have_inline_builds` (no database) scans
`migrations/`. It fails if any migration refuses a populated table
(`RAISE EXCEPTION 'prebuild …`) without an inline build, and if a new
guard is added.
- `migration_execution_cannot_bypass_schema_destruction_lock` allows
exactly one production `run_to`, inside `run_migrations_locked`.

## What got simpler

- Auto-migrating relays no longer need a manual, operator-only prebuild
step for small deployments. That restores the chart README's contract
that `helm upgrade` is the whole upgrade procedure.
- Rule 6 no longer steers authors toward refusing populated tables, and
a test enforces that.
- The change adds one table-driven step for three frozen migrations and
no new configuration.

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2026-11-05 13:52:06 -05:00
Logan Johnson
700e690193 feat(db): enforce unique listed channel names with an index (#8787)
## Summary

Stacked on https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 (merged), which makes
the relay refuse a second open channel with a name that another channel
in the community already has. That check lives in relay code, so an
older relay, a direct database write or a missed code path can still
create a duplicate.

This PR adds the same rule to the database: a unique index on channel
name, ignoring case, for the channels that show in the channel list.
With the index in place, a duplicate fails at the write, whatever wrote
it. The relay's own name check from
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 is no longer needed, so this PR
removes it. Clients still get the same refusal, `invalid: an open
channel named "…" already exists`.

The migration builds the index itself, also on a populated `channels`
table, so an auto-migrating relay upgrades with no operator index step
(the rule from https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8802). It still
refuses to run while duplicate names remain, because the index cannot
exist over them. `docs/channel-name-uniqueness-deployment.md` gives the
full rollout.

## Details

- **The index** (migration `0083_channels_listed_name_unique.sql`):
  ```sql
  CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_channels_listed_name
      ON public.channels (community_id, lower(name))
      WHERE visibility = 'open' AND NOT unlisted
        AND channel_type IN ('stream', 'forum') AND deleted_at IS NULL;
  ```
It covers open, not unlisted streams and forums that are not deleted,
archived ones included. Private channels, DMs and unlisted channels may
still repeat names.
- **The migration builds the index inline, as `0049` does.** When
`to_regclass` finds no index, it runs a plain `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX`
under `lock_timeout` 1s and `statement_timeout` 5s. On a busy or very
large table it fails on those budgets, records nothing, and the relay
retries at its next start. When the index already exists (a concurrent
prebuild), it skips `CREATE` so it never requests the write-blocking
lock. In both cases it then checks that the index is valid, ready and
has the exact expected definition.
- **One refusal stays: duplicate names.** The migration refuses to run
while listed duplicates remain, and its error names the rename script.
The renames must go through the relay so clients get the new kind:39000,
and a migration must not change rows (`docs/database.md` Rule 3). This
is the "fails closed until its repair has run" case in
`migrations/AGENTS.md`, so the writer release from
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 and the rename are a required
stop.
- **Relay.** A write that takes the name of a concurrent, uncommitted
write waits for it, and fails if that write commits. So the post-write
check and the per-name lock from https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782
are removed. The store already maps the index violation to the same
"name taken" error.
- **Desired-state schema.** `schema/tables/public/channels.sql` has the
same index, and the schema parity test compares its live shape between
the desired-state schema and the migrations.
- **Rollout** (`docs/channel-name-uniqueness-deployment.md`), in order:
1. Deploy https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 and wait until no
older relay pod serves.
2. Rename the existing duplicates in each community with that PR's
script, while relays keep serving. The script needs `psql` and
`python3`, and the operator key must be a member of each community. The
doc covers archived communities and communities being deleted.
  3. Confirm that no duplicate remains.
4. Only for a deployment that migrates out of band and is too large for
the budgets: build the index with `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX CONCURRENTLY` and
verify it.
5. Deploy this release. With auto-migration on, the relay applies 0083
at startup. With it off, run `buzz-admin migrate` first, never the file
through `psql`.

Rollback goes to the https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 release
only. Keep the index, and keep auto-migration off.
- **Test fixtures.** Tests that inserted two open channels with one name
now use distinct names. Tests that migrate a populated database through
0083 no longer prebuild the index.

### Related issue

None found. Follows https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782.

### Testing

- Migration tests (`listed_channel_name_postgres_tests.rs`) start from a
database migrated through 0082:
  - With duplicates, 0083 fails and changes nothing.
- After the rename plan is applied, a channel writer that holds its lock
makes the inline build fail on the 1s lock budget, with nothing
recorded.
- With no writer, the populated table migrates with no prebuild, and a
raw duplicate insert fails on the index.
- An index with a different definition, and an invalid one, are refused.
A valid prebuilt index is accepted, and not replaced, while another
transaction is writing to `channels`.
- The store and relay name tests from
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 pass with the relay check
removed: the index refuses the duplicate, and the client still gets
`invalid:`.
- The rename plan and script tests from
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 run on a database at 0082, the
state the script runs in.
- Local Postgres runs on `108737dc0`, one fresh database per test as the
nextest wrapper does: 38 of 40 buzz-db migration-lane tests pass (both
listed-name tests, the migration parity test, the thread-window and
invite-upgrade tests that migrate populated databases through 0083). The
2 `event_follow_up` contract tests fail locally the same way on main.
All 49 buzz-db channel and channel-member store tests pass.

### Database review checklist

- [x] Phase: contract. Before it:
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 (writer release, required stop)
and its rename script. Nothing after it.
- [x] No trigger, function, procedure, rule or foreign key.
- [x] No migration mutates rows. The renames happen before it, through
the relay, with the script in https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782.
- [x] Never refuses a table because it has rows. Fails closed only with
duplicates (repair not run) or with an invalid or different index; then
0083 raises and the relay does not start. The release notes must name
the release that contains https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 as a
required stop.
- [x] Rule 4: `migrations/`, `schema/tables/public/channels.sql` and the
parity test. A live catalog comparison covers the index.
- [x] Deployed relay: the https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 relay
answers `invalid:` beside the index (its tests pass with the index
present). A relay older than that still writes, but gets a database
error, not `invalid:`, for a duplicate. That is why
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8782 is a required stop.
- [x] Timeouts and index build: `lock_timeout` 1s, `statement_timeout`
5s. The migration builds the index inline (plain `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX`,
skipped when `to_regclass` finds a prebuilt one). Only out-of-band
deployments too large for the budgets prebuild it with `CREATE UNIQUE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY` (doc step 4).

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2026-11-04 22:47:23 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
506a588f88 refactor(relay): remove database usage-metric queries (#9040)
## Summary

The relay no longer runs database aggregate queries to emit usage
gauges. Fleet and per-community counts of users, channels, relay
members, workflows, git repos, communities, messages, and active
users/channels are no longer relay metrics, and neither are the snapshot
health gauges that came with them.

### Removed

- **Gauges:** `buzz_total_users`, `buzz_total_channels`,
`buzz_total_relay_members`, `buzz_total_workflows`,
`buzz_total_git_repos`, `buzz_total_active_users`,
`buzz_total_messages`, `buzz_total_active_channels`,
`buzz_communities_estimated` / `buzz_communities_total`, and every
DB-derived `buzz_community_*` series (users, channels, messages, relay
members, workflows, git repos, active users, active channels).
- **Per-community mode:** `BUZZ_USAGE_METRICS_PER_COMMUNITY=all` and
everything it fed: the per-community in-memory gauges,
`buzz_community_storage_bytes` / `buzz_community_storage_objects`,
`buzz_storage_unmapped_community_bytes`, the community → host map query,
and the emission-scope bookkeeping that cleared series for renamed or
removed communities. No deployment set it. If one still does, the relay
ignores it.
- **Health signals:** `buzz_usage_snapshot_available`,
`buzz_usage_snapshot_age_seconds`, `buzz_usage_query_skipped_total`, and
the `usage_fleet_*` paths of `buzz_db_route_decision`.
- **Code and config:**
  - `buzz-db/src/store/usage.rs`, including its aggregate queries.
- The relay's `FleetUsageSchedule` and its cadence/deadline/retry
machinery.
  - The replica-only telemetry route (`Db::route_usage_read`).
- `BUZZ_USAGE_METRICS_REPLICA_MAX_AGE_MS` and
`DbConfig::usage_metrics_replica_max_age_ms`. If a deployment still sets
the env var, the relay now ignores it; startup doesn't fail.
- **Reader maintenance pool operation:** `ReaderOperation::Maintenance`
and its `close_on_drop` release path existed only for those telemetry
reads, so they're removed too. The pool-acquire contract drops from
twelve to eleven valid pairs, which lowers the per-pod series ceiling
from 216 to 198.
- **Dead code:** `Db::active_community_hosts` had no callers.

### Kept

- **Leader:** the usage poller's leader lock, plus the leader's invite
reaping and fleet storage-snapshot gauges. The session advisory lock
(`SessionLeader`, `Db::try_lock_session_leader`) moves to
`buzz-db/src/store/leader_lock.rs`, since storage-usage delivery uses it
too and it has nothing to do with usage queries.
- **In-memory gauges:** pod-local connection, subscription, and
online-user gauges. They read process state, not the database.
- **Writer maintenance pool operation:** `WriterOperation::Maintenance`
stays. Dozens of writer-side maintenance paths across `buzz-db` use it
(reapers, retention, the leader lock). The reader variant only ever
served the telemetry reads.
- **Storage-usage delivery:** unchanged. It reads the storage snapshot
for billing, not for metrics.

`docs/usage-metrics.md`, `docs/storage-accounting.md`, `.env.example`,
and the Helm chart README are updated to match.

## What got simpler

This is net deletion (~3.6k lines). One telemetry subsystem is gone: two
collection families with independent cadences, availability and age
semantics, relay-side deadlines, a dedicated replica routing policy, two
config knobs, a per-community emission mode, and a pool-operation
variant. Leader election now does only leader work, and it lives in its
own module.

## Operational note

Dashboards and monitors that read the removed series will go to no data
once this rolls out.

## Testing

- `cargo fmt --check`, workspace `cargo clippy --all-targets -D
warnings`.
- `buzz-db` lib, `observability_source`, and doc tests.
- `buzz-relay` lib tests.
- The Postgres lane for `buzz-db` (lib + tests) and `buzz-relay` (lib).

All of these run on a remote workstation at the PR head.

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2026-11-04 22:00:30 -05:00
Brad Seiler
a1f79e3aba feat(relay): persist NIP-FI upgrades (BUZZ-510) (#8985)
## Summary

Record that a community requires NIP-FI and provide an idempotent
operator API to enable it and recover the original receipt. Acceptance
checks the current owner, host, lifecycle and existing issuer trust in
one transaction. It never creates trust. Receipts survive community
deletion so an operation UUID cannot be reused.

New acceptances default to disabled through
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_UPGRADES_ENABLED`. Disabled calls return HTTP 503
`upgrades_disabled`; identical retries and authenticated readback still
recover existing receipts. Policy is permanent: stopping new calls or
rolling back code does not clear it. Last-issuer removal is refused for
required communities, and bulk backfill leaves missing bindings for
explicit operator repair.

Apply additive migration 0082 before code. Existing communities remain
optional. This layer records acceptance and reports only `pending` or
`unavailable`; deploy and verify [per-request
enforcement](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8988) and [session
activation](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8991) before enabling
acceptance. The global enforce floor remains. See [the operator
contract](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/seiler/BUZZ-510/relay-auth-upgrade/docs/community-auth-upgrades.md)
for signing, recovery and containment.

### Related issue


[BUZZ-510](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-510/relay-persist-community-nip-fi-requirements-and-expose-idempotent).
Base of native stack `8989`; retains trunk's enforcement telemetry from
[#8974](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8974). Includes a separate
commit that repairs an observer timing flake in a desktop test required
by the repository gate.

### Testing

Controlled local regressions detect the old disabled error code and
removal of the last issuer with `allow_last=true`; intended source is
restored. Full PostgreSQL validation and the updated live relay/admin
exercise remain pending. Human acceptance remains open. No deployment or
production activation.

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2026-11-04 19:56:07 +00:00
Kalvin C
3d26ed7dfd feat(relay): match verified names in profile search (#9019)
## Summary

`POST /profiles/search` only matches kind:0 `name` and `display_name`.
In communities that publish NIP-FI verified profiles, a person's surname
or directory username often appears only in their relay-signed
kind:30382, so typeahead cannot find them by it.

- Where the community advertises verified profiles, the search also
matches the `display_name`, `username` and `full_name` tags of each
current kind:30382 head signed by the relay key.
- Verified names need a trailing prefix of at least three characters, as
in NIP-50, so a short prefix doesn't make the relay rank every verified
head. kind:0 keeps one-character typeahead. Lookups from heads to
`events` also match `created_at`, so Postgres prunes to one partition.
- Results are paged by person. Each person returns their current kind:0,
when they have one, then their current kind:30382, when they have one,
whichever matched. A person is ranked by their best match across both
sources, using the existing tiers.
- NIP-11 `federated_identity.public_profile` gains `searchable: true`,
so clients can rely on the response instead of a separate kind:30382
read.
- Migration `0081` adds a GIN expression index over the head's name tags
on `nip_fi_profile_heads` (built-in `jsonb_path_query_first` and
`to_tsvector`, no new functions). The table holds one row per verified
person. Like `0078`, the migration builds the index only while the table
is empty; populated databases prebuild it with `CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY` (`docs/profile-search.md`), and the migration then checks
it is valid and has the expected definition.

Compatibility: the request schema is unchanged. Existing clients that
keep only kind:0 events work as before and also find people who match
only by verified name. Trust stays pinned to the relay `self` key; the
event shape follows NIP-85 user assertions, but discovery is
relay-advertised rather than kind:10040.

## Testing

- `buzz-search` Postgres integration: new
`profile_names_match_verified_names` covers forged-key heads, replaced
heads, other communities, people without kind:0, per-person grouping,
paging, and words split across sources; the existing profile-name tests
pass unchanged. The test fails when the author filter is inverted.
- `buzz-relay` end to end in enforce mode:
`profile_search_matches_verified_names_where_advertised` publishes
through the real writer and finds the person by surname only where
verified profiles are advertised.
- Desired-state and migration index definitions match.
- `profile_names_use_verified_name_index` asserts the search scans the
new index. Migration `0081` checked against an empty table, a rerun, a
populated table without the index (raises), the documented concurrent
prebuild, and an index with a different definition (raises).
- Latency, 50k people each with a kind:0 and a verified head, release
build, local Postgres, best of 5, 30 people per page: 11–22 ms with
verified names versus 1–8 ms kind:0 only. `EXPLAIN` shows a bitmap scan
on the new index.

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2026-11-03 21:25:15 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
d44031f418 perf(relay): cut writer-pool round trips past the 48k relay ceiling (#8846)
## Summary

Five changes that take load off the writer pool and the relay's
connection bookkeeping. On a single-relay load rig, the clean ceiling
moves from 40k to about 48k WebSocket clients. In the A/B, connect p99
at 48k fell from 4.1 s (abort) to 1.65 s.

1. **Ban/mute restriction cache with a 1 s max age.** HTTP API requests,
publishes and ephemeral writes read `(community, pubkey)` restriction
state through one cache. An entry is served for 1 s from when its read
began, matching the open-channel cache's bound. Socket admission,
moderation-command actor checks and the `/buzz/v1` ban recheck still
read fresh. An admitted socket outlives the 1 s window, so a banned
client that reconnects inside it would otherwise keep a socket open
indefinitely. A ban drops the target's entry, and each owned agent's
entry, on every pod as part of the live-disconnect fan-out, best-effort.
Timeouts, untimeouts and unbans drop it on the pod that handles them.
2. **Fewer round trips per event read.** Replica reads skip the per-read
`statement_timeout` tighten, because the reader pool installs the
deadline at connect. They keep the savepoint, so a failed or cancelled
read leaves the session usable and releases its locks. That takes them
from 4 round trips to 3. Writer reads send `BEGIN` and the tighten as
one message, which also takes them from 4 to 3.
3. **Concurrent open-channel cache misses share one read.** The first
miss in a community takes a per-community gate and reads; the others
wait for it and use its result. A waiter whose leader failed reads once
on its own and does not queue again. A waiter also stops waiting after
the cache's 1 s max age and reads on its own, because the leader's set
would be stale by then anyway. So a leader whose read hangs stalls only
its own request.
4. **`has_admitted_connection` is one map lookup.** A `(community,
pubkey) → admitted count` index is maintained under each socket's pubkey
lock in `mark_admitted`, `set_authenticated_identity` and `deregister`.
It replaces a scan of every connection on each disconnect.
5. **Host → community cache with a 1 s max age.** Only successful
lookups are cached; unmapped hosts and errors go to the database every
time.

## What got simpler

- The ban handler's separate pod-local cache drop is gone; the
disconnect every ban already runs covers it on every pod.
- One write-restriction gate instead of two.
`enforce_cached_write_restriction`, `enforce_relay_membership_ephemeral`
and the `cached_ban` parameter chain through `enforce_membership` /
`admit_member` / `deny_banned` are deleted.
- The ephemeral path's separate 30 s ban cache is gone, so the relay has
one staleness rule for restriction state instead of two.

## Notes

- Bans reach the restriction cache on every pod. Every ban path (signed
command, report action, relay admin) closes the target's and its agents'
sockets clusterwide, and each pod drops those entries in the same step.
A dropped Redis publish, or a restriction read already in flight when
the drop lands (it can refill the old row), falls back to the 1 s bound.
Timeouts on other pods also rely on the 1 s bound, and so do unbans and
untimeouts, which fail closed.
- On the load rig the restriction-cache hit rate was 28%, because HTTP
agents poll every 5 s. A longer TTL with Redis invalidation would raise
it, but that is a separate change.

## Load test

Single relay pinned to 8 cores, native Postgres 16, a seeded fixture
with 2,000 open channels, and a 6-shard generator. Steady ramp with 120
s holds; a step aborts at p99 > 3 s. Each step adds 10% HTTP agents.

| clients | base connect p99 | this PR connect p99 | base relay cores |
this PR relay cores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32k | 34 ms | 31 ms | 1.71 | 1.66 |
| 40k | 45 ms | 26 ms | 2.33 | 2.15 |
| 48k | 4,107 ms (abort) | 1,652 ms | 4.7 | 3.0 |
| 56k | n/a | 4,535 ms (abort) | n/a | 4.0 |

Open-channel re-reads over the run fell from 72k to 1.6k. The tenant
cache hit rate was 94%.

48k is this branch's knee. A later run of the same build aborted at 48k:
connect p99 2.2 s, but 29% subscribe errors from the concurrent-handler
cap. With a 10 s restriction max age, it passed 48k, at connect p99 1.56
s, 60% hit rate and 10% fewer relay cores, and both arms stopped at 56k.

## Testing

- `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-relay -p buzz-db
--all-targets -D warnings`
- `cargo test -p buzz-db --lib` and `-p buzz-relay --lib`, run in
parallel. The only failures were 8 DB-seeding tests that need a migrated
default database; the Postgres lane covers them. Commits after that run
changed the replica savepoint, the `/buzz/v1` recheck revert and some
test edits.
- Postgres lane at head: `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p buzz-relay -p
buzz-db --lib --bins --tests`. All 1,183 tests passed.
- Mutants. Each one must turn its new test red:
  - waiters skipping the gate
  - a no-op index removal
  - the tenant cache ignoring age
  - the restriction cache ignoring age
  - a waiter waiting on the gate with no limit
  - a disconnect that keeps the cached restriction row
  - replica reads dropping the savepoint

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2026-11-03 11:15:49 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
46da35810d db: recycle pool connections after 5 minutes instead of 30 (#8951) 2026-11-02 19:35:27 -05:00
Luke Tornquist
949f61dfab fix(search): cancel abandoned searches and bound the search pool (#8954) 2026-11-02 23:19:23 +00:00
Logan Johnson
5f8d0aab98 fix(relay): refuse a second listed open channel with the same name (#8782)
## Summary

Two open channels in one community could have the same name, so the
channel list showed two `#square-ios` rows and people could not tell
them apart. Now the relay refuses to create, rename or open up a channel
when that would give it the same name as another channel in the channel
list, ignoring case. The client gets `invalid: an open channel named "…"
already exists`.

The rule follows Slack: an archived channel keeps its name until it is
deleted. Private channels, DMs and unlisted channels may still repeat
names. So a refusal never reveals that a private channel exists.

The PR also adds a script that renames the duplicates that exist today.
It sends each rename through the relay, so relays keep serving while it
runs. The stacked PR https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787 then adds a
database index that enforces the rule. This PR is the release that must
be fully deployed before that index.

## Details

**Which channels the rule covers.** A *listed* channel: open, not
unlisted, a stream or forum, not deleted. Archived channels are
included. The check runs on create, rename, private → open and unlisted
→ listed.

**Relay check** (`crates/buzz-db/src/store/channel.rs`,
`crates/buzz-relay/src/handlers/ingest.rs`):
- The check runs after the write, in the same transaction, under a
per-name lock. So two concurrent writers cannot both commit the same
name.
- A refused create or edit (kind:9007 or kind:9002) gets `OK false
"invalid: an open channel named … already exists"`. Nothing from it is
stored.
- The relay gives the same answer when the database index from
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787 refuses the write. That covers
the rollout, and a rollback from that release.
- A channel create with no `h` tag (the new channel's id) is now refused
before it is stored. Before, such a create ran after the event was
stored, so a refusal (for example, a taken name) still answered
"accepted". All first-party clients send `h`.

**Operator rename** (`crates/buzz-relay/src/handlers/side_effects.rs`).
The rename script needs to rename channels it does not own, archived
ones included. So a relay operator may now send a channel edit that
changes only the name of a listed channel. Everything else still needs
the channel's owner or admin.
- "Operator" means `RELAY_OPERATOR_PUBKEYS`, the owner fallback, or an
`operator` row in `relay_operators`. A moderator is not an operator.
- The rename also applies to an archived listed channel, whatever the
operator's role in that channel, and the channel stays archived. Other
edits of an archived channel are still refused.
- Private channels, unlisted channels and DMs still need the channel's
owner or admin. The relay decides "listed" under the channel row lock,
so a channel made private during the rename is not renamed.
- The rename takes the normal edit path: the name check, the stored
event, the channel metadata event and fan-out.

**Rename script**
(`scripts/maintenance/rename_duplicate_listed_channel_names.sh`, with
the read-only plan `plan_duplicate_listed_channel_renames.sql`):
- In each group of listed channels that share a name, the oldest
unarchived channel keeps the name. Each other channel becomes
`<name>-<first 8 chars of id>`, or `<name>-<id>` when that is also
taken. When all the channels in a group are archived, the oldest keeps
the name.
- **Starter channels.** Released desktop and mobile apps create
`#general` and `#welcome-everyone` when a community has no open,
unarchived stream with that name. Under the new rule, the relay refuses
that create while an archived channel has the name, and the apps' setup
fails. So the script also renames `general` and `welcome-everyone` when
every listed channel with that name is archived. That frees the name for
the apps.
- The apps create each starter at a fixed id, derived from the relay's
address. If a channel already has that id, the relay refuses the create
there whatever its name, so a rename cannot help. For that name the
script renames nothing, and an archived starter at its id keeps the
name. The script computes the ids from `BUZZ_RELAY_URL` (or
`BUZZ_STARTER_ORIGIN` when the apps use a different address) and prints
them, so the operator can check them against a client. A relay-side fix
for those clients is planned separately.
- The operator key goes in `BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY`. It must be a relay
operator and a member of the community. The script stops at the first
auth refusal and says so.
- The script stops before the plan for an unknown host, an archived
community and a community being deleted, and says what to do.
- A failed rename (the new name is now taken, or the relay can't be
reached) is reported, and the script goes on. At the end it reads the
plan again and exits 1 if any rename remains. `--dry-run` prints the
plan.
- The script replaces the earlier direct-SQL repair and `buzz-admin
reconcile-channels --metadata`, which needed every relay pod stopped.

**Duplicates that exist today** (read on 2026-10-30):
`ml-platform-public` (`d41a31f8…`, `7be55f5a…`) and `square-ios`
(`79f8e9d4…` archived, `fe246d3e…` live).

### Rollout

The full procedure, with exact SQL and recovery steps, is in
`docs/channel-name-uniqueness-deployment.md` in
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787.

1. **Deploy this PR.** Wait until no older relay pod serves; check the
image of every pod. An older relay can still create a duplicate, and it
refuses the operator rename.
2. **Rename the existing duplicates in each community**, with relays
serving. The key must be an `operator`, not a moderator, and a member of
the community (`RELAY_URL=wss://<host> buzz-admin add-member --pubkey
<npub>`).
   ```sh
   DATABASE_URL=postgres://... BUZZ_PRIVATE_KEY=<operator key> \
scripts/maintenance/rename_duplicate_listed_channel_names.sh --dry-run
<community host>
   # review the plan, then run it again without --dry-run
   ```
For the duplicates known today, the newer `ml-platform-public` and the
archived `square-ios` (`79f8e9d4…`) get the `-<id8>` suffix.
3. **Confirm that no duplicate remains** in any community (query in the
doc).
4. **Build the index, then deploy
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787.**

Rollback from https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787 goes to this
release only, keeping the index, with auto-migration off.

### Related issue

None found.

### Testing

- **Live local relay.** The script ran against a local relay built at
9ee09a619, with relay membership required and six seeded channels
(`ops`, `OPS`, an archived `Ops`, a private `ops`, `dev`, `DEV`):
  - `--dry-run` listed the three renames.
- With the operator key not yet a member, the script stopped at the
first refusal, named the membership precondition and renamed nothing.
- After `buzz-admin add-member`, it renamed all three and exited 0. The
archived channel stayed archived, the private `ops` kept its name, and a
second run renamed nothing.
- With the community archived, the script stopped with the unarchive
message.
- Rerun at 0df245e3c as part of the full rollout in
https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8787: the relay refused a new
duplicate over the wire, and the script renamed the seeded duplicates
with the relay serving.
- **Relay tests** (`group_state_postgres_tests.rs`): a taken name is
refused as `invalid:` and nothing is stored; a create with no `h` tag is
refused before it is stored; an operator can rename only a listed
channel, only the name, archived or not, and a moderator cannot; an
operator rename is refused if the channel stops being listed before it
is saved.
- **Store tests** (`channel_name_postgres_tests.rs`): create, rename,
private → open and unlisted → listed are refused for a taken name;
private and unlisted names may repeat; an archived channel keeps its
name and a deleted one frees it; of two concurrent creates with one
name, the second is refused once the first commits.
- **Plan and script tests** (`listed_channel_name_postgres_tests.rs`)
run the shipped SQL and shell script: which channel keeps the name, the
starter cases, names at the 255-character limit, names with control
characters or a leading `-`, and the auth and community stops. The
starter-id computation matches the mobile app's test vectors.
- The new guards were each removed once to confirm that a test fails.
- The full local Postgres test runs (buzz-db, buzz-relay, buzz-admin)
pass, except 6 tests that also fail locally on main and pass in CI.

### Database review checklist

- [x] Phase: writer release (deploy), plus a maintenance script. The
stacked PR adds the contract index; this release is its required stop.
- [x] No trigger, function, procedure, rule or foreign key.
- [x] No migration. The script writes nothing to the database itself. It
reads a plan, and the relay applies each rename as a normal channel
edit. `docs/database.md` Rule 3 asks for maintenance scripts in their
own PR. The script is here because it depends on the operator rename in
this PR.
- [x] Contract: not in this PR.
- [x] Rule 4 locations: no schema change.
- [x] Deployed relay: the schema is unchanged, so the deployed relay
keeps working. An older relay refuses the operator rename, so run the
script only after this release is fully deployed. This release also
works beside the contract index (tests above).
- [x] Timeouts: no index build or bulk write here.

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2026-11-02 13:23:40 -05:00
Matt Toohey
cde6c1bf5b feat(relay): auto-join new community members to default channels (#8594)
## Summary

Adds **default channels**: relay owners and admins can flag channels
that every new community member is automatically joined into.

**Setting (contract)**
- New `channels.auto_join` column (migration `0080`, constant default
`false`, so no table rewrite).
- kind:9002 accepts `["auto_join", "true"|"false"]`. Authorization comes
from the actor's **relay** roster role (owner/admin), not a channel
role, so the actor doesn't need to be a channel member. API tokens need
`AdminChannels`.
- Only open, unarchived `stream` channels qualify. This is checked under
the channel row lock, so one event can open and flag a channel in one
step, and a concurrent archive can't slip past the check.
- kind:39000 carries a bare `auto_join` tag only while the setting is
effective (on, open and unarchived). Every change posts one
`auto_join_changed` kind:40099 notice.
- SDK `build_update_channel(.., auto_join)`, `buzz channels update
--auto-join <true|false>`, a NOSTR.md "Default channels" section, and a
NIP-CL tag-table row.

**Behaviour**
- kind:9021's body is pulled out into `join_channel_as_self`, so
auto-join uses the same path as a self-join: the channel's `join_role`
applies, and it emits `member_joined` 40099, 39000/39002 and 44100.
- `auto_join_default_channels` runs inline right after a member is added
at three sites: the v2 invite claim, the v1 invite claim, and kind:9030
add. It does not run on login or reconnect, so a later kind:9022 leave
stands.
- Best effort: each failure is logged and counted
(`buzz_auto_join_failures_total`) but never retried, because the roster
membership has already committed. This deliberately departs from
Review-Proven Rule 1 and is documented in NOSTR.md. `buzz-admin
add-member` writes the roster row only.

**Communities without a membership roster**
(`BUZZ_REQUIRE_RELAY_MEMBERSHIP=false`)
- These have no invite claim or kind:9030 to hook, so the three sites
above join nobody there. Instead, after the AUTH `OK`, the relay joins a
person to every effective default channel they have **never had a
membership row in** (`auto_join_never_joined_channels`, spawned so
admission never waits on it).
- The channel's own membership history is the once-only record, so this
adds no new table, column or migration. A kind:9022 leave or a kind:9001
removal keeps the row with `removed_at`, so the person stays out. A new
device or another relay pod finds the row and does nothing.
`put_first_member` checks the row again under the `put_member` locks, so
two admissions racing each other join once.
- A channel flagged later is joined on each person's next admission. A
failed membership write leaves no row, so the next admission retries it.
- Each channel's join holds the session's NIP-FI effect permit, so once
the socket closes or its admission expires, no further channels are
joined.
- Agents are skipped: any socket with an admitted owner (a NIP-OA tag, a
NIP-FI agent token, or a stored `agent_owner_pubkey`).
- The kind:9021 side effects moved into `announce_self_join`, so both
join paths emit the same `member_joined`, 39000/39002 and 44100.

**Review follow-ups**
- `get_accessible_channels` now selects `auto_join`. Without it, every
call failed with `ColumnNotFound`.
- The final authorization branch of the 9002 validator now refuses by
default. `list_auto_join_channels` filters to `stream` channels itself.

## Testing
- Postgres-lane journeys:
- `edit_metadata_postgres_tests`: who may set `auto_join`, the 40099
notice, the effective-state tag, and the refusals.
- `claim_auto_joins_default_channels_once`: v2 and v1 claims, and leave
then re-claim.
  - `adding_a_member_auto_joins_default_channels`: kind:9030 add.
- Removing the auto-join call at any one of the three sites fails the
matching test (checked by mutation).
- `root_auth_joins_people_to_default_channels_without_a_roster`: through
`handle_auth` on a roster-less community. A person is joined, a NIP-OA
agent is not, and a leave holds when the person is admitted again.
Mutations checked: removing the spawn, and dropping the agent check.
Each check waits for that admission's own auto-join outcome (a skip
reports through the same test hook as a finished task) and fails if none
arrives. A third mutation drops the agent check and delays the task 3s;
it still fails.
- `admission_auto_join_stops_when_the_session_ends`: closing the socket
before the first or second channel stops the remaining joins; a later
admission joins what was skipped. Mutation checked: dropping the effect
permit.
- `first_member_put_joins_once_and_never_undoes_a_leave` (buzz-db): the
person is joined once with the channel's `join_role` (`guest` on an
announce channel), a second put does nothing, after a leave the channel
is neither listed nor joined, and two racing puts write exactly once.
Mutations checked: removing the row check, removing the channel lock,
and removing the `NOT EXISTS`.
- e2e `test_invite_claim_auto_joins_default_channel` against a local
relay.
- Unit coverage in the SDK and CLI builders and `group_metadata_tags`.

## What got simpler

The roster-less path adds no schema and no new concept: it reuses the
channel's membership history as its record. It also shares the kind:9021
join code. It replaces the per-device client workarounds,
[buzz-app#2029](https://github.com/block/buzz-app/pull/2029) and
[buzz#8795](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8795), which are now
closed.

## Related

- Client half (buzz-app): https://github.com/block/buzz-app/pull/1624

## Demo

Recorded against a local relay built from this branch with throwaway
identities (Alice = owner, Bob = new member); no real accounts or hosted
relays involved. Relay at 141aa01d4, client at buzz-app bb0d97d86
(browser dev build).

**Owner turns on "Starter channel for new members" on two channels.**
Alice creates `#general` and `#welcome`, then flips the switch on each
(~0:25 and ~0:41). The switch greys out while the kind 9002 is in flight
and only turns on once the republished 39000 carries the `auto_join`
tag.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e590d343-11d3-4385-af43-2cfaf19f8468

**A brand-new member joins and lands in a starter channel.** Bob claims
Alice's invite with empty storage; from ~0:18 he is reading `#welcome`
with both `#general` and `#welcome` in the sidebar, and at 0:27 opens
`#general` as a member with no Join prompt. The relay logged one
`auto-joined default channel` line per flagged channel.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/037a0aaa-b25d-474d-a316-8d25e5e54f89

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2026-11-01 14:17:41 -05:00
fsola-sq
7d00c70805 feat(relay): publish NIP-FI verified profiles (BUZZ-433) (#8774)
## Summary

Publish historical verified names from valid human NIP-FI assertions as
relay-signed kind 30382 events. Keep profile publication optional and
separate from access decisions. Disconnects and access changes initiate
asynchronous cleanup without retracting profiles verified after the
original trigger time.

Publish `display_name` as the chosen short display handle and `username`
as the account handle. Carry optional `full_name` in the signed
assertion into a matching kind 30382 tag. Adding, changing, or removing
the full name updates the profile immediately; retractions remove every
name field. Older profiles without `full_name` remain valid.

Adds opt-in issuer labels, discovery, and schema migration 0079. Deploy
and drain all access writers before enabling publication; use a stable
relay key and a shared publication-policy revision. Update clients
before enabling assertions with `full_name`.

### Related issue

Implements the Relay portion of [the verified-profile
specification](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8745) at `500829a9`
(BUZZ-433). This is the closest existing PR found. Companion client:
https://github.com/block/buzz-app/pull/2005. Companion issuer:
[KGoose/bb-identity
#144773](https://github.com/squareup/cash-server/pull/144773), which
includes `nostr_public_profile` in valid human assertions.

### Testing

Passed the lifecycle test against a disposable local PostgreSQL
database, including full-name addition, change, and removal: `cargo test
-p buzz-db
store::verified_profiles::postgres_tests::profile_lifecycle_retains_assertion_ordering
--lib -- --ignored --exact` with `BUZZ_TEST_DATABASE_URL` set to that
database.

Independent agent review found no remaining blockers. No live Relay test
or human verification yet. This remains a draft and does not attest the
repository's human-testing checklist.

For end-to-end testing, enable publication for a test issuer, admit a
member with a signed profile claim, and query kind 30382. Verify short
display handles, optional full names, changed names, missing-claim
retraction, disconnect cleanup, and a later admission surviving delayed
cleanup. Check the companion app against the same relay.

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2026-10-31 15:42:34 +00:00
Matt Toohey
b7b545f090 test(db): drop scratch databases and roles even when a test fails (#8747)
## Summary

`buzz-db` tests that create their own databases or roles dropped them as
the last line of the test body. A failed assertion or a timeout skipped
that line and left the database or role on the shared Postgres server.
Seven files carried their own copy of `create_scratch_db_through` and
its drop helper.

- Adds `ScratchDb` and `ScratchRole` guards to
`crates/buzz-db/src/test_support.rs`. Their `Drop` runs `DROP DATABASE
IF EXISTS ... WITH (FORCE)` or `DROP ROLE IF EXISTS` on a fresh admin
connection, on a separate thread with its own runtime. `ScratchSchema`
already works this way, so the guards work under both runtime flavours
and while a panicking test unwinds. `WITH (FORCE)` ends any sessions
still open on the database, so pools need not be closed first.
- A failed drop prints a warning instead of panicking, because a panic
during unwinding would abort the test binary.
- The seven per-file helpers and every end-of-test `DROP DATABASE` in
`buzz-db` now use the guard. The replica-fence masked-activity test's
least-privilege role uses `ScratchRole`. Admin pools and `close()` calls
that only served cleanup are removed. Test behaviour is otherwise
unchanged.
- `crates/buzz-db/TESTING.md` now points new tests at the guards.
- The second commit fixes a comment in
`armed_pool_rejects_old_channel_inserts_through_public_api` that still
described the old end-of-test drop.

**Existing leftovers need dropping by hand.** This change stops new
leftovers but does not remove the ones earlier failed runs already left
in dev `buzz-postgres` containers. There were 24 on the author's
machine, named `stall_r_*`, `buzz_admin_*`, `floor_probe_*`, `fence_*`
and `cxl_*`. List them, check the list, then drop each one:

```sql
SELECT datname FROM pg_database
WHERE datname ~ '^(stall_r|buzz_admin|floor_probe|fence|cxl)_';

DROP DATABASE "<name>" WITH (FORCE);
```

The guards are private to `buzz-db`. `buzz-push-gateway`, `buzz-admin`
and `buzz-relay` tests still create and drop scratch databases by hand,
which could get a shared copy of the guards in a follow-up.

### Related issue

None found. This continues the test-cleanup work in #8727.

### Testing

- Ran the 70 affected `buzz-db` tests against the local `buzz-postgres`
container: 68 passed. Neither failure comes from this change.
`cluster_global_probe_commits_tokens_and_sessions_prove_coverage` hit
the known `MaskedActivity { masked: 1 }` flake under load and passed
when run alone. Because it panicked while holding a `ScratchDb`, it also
showed a panicking test leaves nothing behind.
`serving_lease_statement_timeout_cancels_slow_statement` failed with
`VersionMismatch(56)`, because the shared dev database already has
another branch's migration 56 applied.
- After the run, the server's database and role lists matched the
snapshot taken before it.
- A temporary test panicked while holding an open transaction, an
exclusive table lock and a live session as the scratch role. It left no
database or role behind under either runtime flavour and printed no drop
warnings. That test is not part of this PR.
- `cargo fmt --check` and `cargo clippy -p buzz-db --all-targets -- -D
warnings` pass. The tests ran before the commits were cherry-picked onto
current main. Only clippy was re-run afterwards.

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2026-10-31 10:35:59 +11:00
Daniel Rouleau
a57349b237 feat(relay): add incremental artifact reads (#8523)
## Summary

Buzz clients need to recover task changes after a disconnect. This adds
incremental reads of changed artifacts with database modification
timestamps and a 120-second overlap. Each result contains the current
revision or an explicit removal. A separate read of known IDs confirms
accepted edits and restores access state.

Pages use a timestamp and a stable ID to handle equal timestamps. Access
grants include older records. Access policy changes require discovery
and revalidation of saved IDs. The reader does not load a list of all
readable channels. Ordinary artifact writes update their own rows.

### Incremental reads and WebSocket Sync

This HTTP protocol maintains an eventually consistent local store. It
uses `artifacts.incremental` and `"artifact":"incremental"`. It does not
prove a complete set at one database snapshot. Absence never proves
deletion or loss of access.

[WebSocket Sync](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8522) serves a
separate use case: a complete set at `EOSE`, followed by live updates.
It owns `artifacts.sync`. Both protocols can coexist. The second PR to
merge must reuse the shared access helper in `artifact_query.rs` when it
resolves the overlapping edits.

The gate is `BUZZ_ARTIFACT_INCREMENTAL_ENABLED`. Errors use the
`incremental_` prefix. Unlisted open channels require membership or an
explicit `#h` scope. Listing changes reset incremental progress.
Incremental reads exclude TTL artifacts. Known-ID reads return `remove`
for them. The `#h` scope limits candidates before pagination. Initial
reads omit deleted heads. Later reads retain deletion removals.

### Why the new timestamps are needed

`created_at` comes from the event signer. `received_at` records event
arrival. Neither advances when access changes or an event is redacted.
Sync needs database timestamps for those changes:

| Column | Why sync needs it |
| --- | --- |
| `artifact_heads.modified_at` | Finds current records that change
through an edit, deletion, or redaction. |
| `artifact_revisions.modified_at` | Dates retained move records. This
lets sync remove a task from its former channel when the reader cannot
access its new channel. |
| `channel_members.sync_modified_at` | Finds grants, rejoins, and
removals. A grant must include older tasks whose own timestamps do not
change. |
| `communities.artifact_policy_modified_at` | Requests recovery after a
relevant channel visibility, TTL, or deletion change. Clients revalidate
saved IDs. Ordinary task writes do not update it. |

The database sets these timestamps with `clock_timestamp()`. The
120-second overlap covers the accepted delay between timestamp
assignment and commit visibility.

`BUZZ_ARTIFACT_INCREMENTAL_ENABLED` defaults to off. Apply migrations
`0076`–`0078` and upgrade all writers before enablement. The 120-second
delay bound is an operating assumption. [Deployment
steps](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/drouleau/artifact-snapshots/docs/artifact-sync-deployment.md)
cover index prebuilds and rollback.

### Related issue

No duplicate found. Related work: [read
permissions](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8338), [statement
limits](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8461), and [atomic channel
settings](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8516).

### Testing

Signed HTTP E2E passes on `f3d6ac852e7ce4e2cc53bd891cef87832a868d72`
after CI passes. It includes main through `ef4130da4`. A standalone
local relay uses a fresh PostgreSQL 17 database, Redis, and signed
NIP-98 HTTP requests. All 78 migrations apply through relay startup. All
behavioral writes and reads use HTTP.

The tests cover create, edit, delta reads, known-ID recovery, private
moves, access grants, removals, rejoins, visibility resets, redaction,
and deletion. Unlisted tests cover hidden broad discovery, named scope,
known-ID reads, member access, and policy resets. They also cover
bootstrap across two pages, overlap replay, and 101 move removals across
pages. Decoded cursors contain no private revision IDs. With the
incremental gate off, `artifacts.incremental` is absent and a signed
incremental request returns `503 incremental_unavailable`. Unsigned
requests are rejected. Signed tests also cover TTL exclusion, current-ID
removals for TTL artifacts, moves into TTL channels, deleted initial
heads, and scoped pages with exactly 100 and 3 upserts.

A separate local scale test on `babcdb766` reads 10,050 tasks across
60,002 memberships. It uses seeded fixtures and a second relay state
with the same signing key. The initial read takes 8.31 seconds over 101
pages with 4,923-byte events. A read with no changes takes 5.70
milliseconds. The candidate keeps the same database query. These are
local measurements, not production limits. Cold pages repeat candidate
scans and access checks. Writer load needs validation before fleet
enablement.

```sh
cargo test -p buzz-relay sync_downloads_ten_thousand_tasks_with_sixty_thousand_memberships -- --ignored --nocapture
```

The behavioral run uses `cargo build -p buzz-relay --bin buzz-relay`,
then `cargo run -p buzz-relay --example
artifact_incremental_final_oct30_f3`. The temporary harness drives the
built relay and is removed after the run. The worktree is clean at the
tested SHA. It does not exercise a native client. Git and S3 behavior
are outside this validation.

The
[protocol](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/drouleau/artifact-snapshots/docs/nips/NIP-AR.md#incremental-reads)
defines progress, removals, limits, and recovery. Relay verification
covers the signed HTTP path. Native client verification belongs to [the
client PR](https://github.com/block/buzz-app/pull/1507).

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2026-10-30 08:30:46 -07:00
Matt Toohey
ef4130da4b fix(db): keep lease releases durable and deflake PostgreSQL lane tests (#8676)
## Summary

When the user-deletion worker dropped a lease heartbeat, its pooled
connection could be left inside an open transaction. The worker's final
lease `release` then reported success but never committed, and a rerun
saw the request as "leased by another worker" for up to 60 s. The
heartbeat is now one autocommit `UPDATE`.

The PR also fixes six PostgreSQL-lane test flakes from the 21–28 Oct
2026 CI audit. It moves one relay test off the 100 ms-acquire test
helper before that test starts flaking the same way.

This is one of seven PRs split out of the `flakey-tests` branch
(siblings below). It touches only `buzz-db`, `buzz-deletion` and
`buzz-relay`. Every relay file except `connection.rs` and
`boot_lifecycle.rs` changes only for the helper rename in the last row.

### Related issue

None found. Nothing on `main` (eda26b942) or in an open PR covers these.
G, a single hermit `pgschema` 504 that needs a workflow change, is out
of scope.

### Flaky tests fixed

| Test | Failing runs | Cause | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| `buzz-deletion`
`user::worker::postgres_tests::dummy_executor_failure_retries_same_community_stage`
(:47) and `next_step_advances_one_handler_at_a_time_through_completion`
(:131) | 40439041234 (main), 40399635380#3, 40413732817#1 | **Product
bug.** `run_stage_with_heartbeat` drops the renewal future when the
stage handler wins `select!`. The heartbeat opened a transaction. sqlx
0.9 bumps `transaction_depth` only after `BEGIN` returns, so a `begin()`
dropped mid-`BEGIN` queues no `ROLLBACK`, and the connection goes back
to the pool inside an open transaction. The worker's autocommit
`release` then ran inside it and never committed. |
`EntityDeletionStore::heartbeat` is one autocommit `UPDATE`, guarded by
`lock_owned`'s ownership/status/expiry predicate. A superseded lease is
never renewed. A new regression test,
`dropped_heartbeat_leaves_no_open_transaction_for_the_release`, drops
the real heartbeat mid-`BEGIN` through a pausing proxy. |
| `buzz-db`
`session_statement_timeouts_bound_writer_and_reader_sessions`
(runtime/tests.rs:3138, `PoolTimedOut`) | 40128463987, 40314950864#1,
40374286094 (main), 40394821009#1, 40413732817#1 | Each config's lazy
reader pool dialled cold inside the 150 ms `READER_ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT`.
`Db::new` never runs the boot ping. | Warm the reader the way the relay
boots it (`read_pool_boot_ping_for_tests` + `await_idle_floor`). |
| `buzz-relay` `startup_owns_the_dependency_sampler` (boot_lifecycle.rs)
| Torn scrape: 39865872891 (main), 39624074244#2, 40385799750#1,
40413293801#1. Early exit: 39704588623 | metrics-exporter-prometheus
0.18.3 snapshots counters, then gauges. The scrape that first shows the
completion gauge can therefore predate the `checks_total` counters. |
Assert on a second scrape, taken after the gauge is seen. On an early
relay exit, the helper now panics with the exit status, stdout and
stderr. The early exit itself was not reproduced. |
| `buzz-db`
`sample_writer_waits_for_shared_floor_lock_before_sampling_time`
(replica_fence.rs:1086) and
`replica_floor_probe_waits_for_shared_writer_and_records_after_release`
(runtime/tests.rs:3452) | 39601763602 (main), 40391445284#1,
39825846222, 40301667418 | Both scan cluster-wide `pg_stat_activity` but
ran outside the serialized `postgres-cluster-global` group. Connection
churn from other tests masked activity (`MaskedActivity { masked: 1 }`).
| Rename both with a `cluster_global_` prefix. `nextest show-config
test-groups --profile postgres-ci` lists both in the group. |
| `buzz-db`
`stalled_reader_sessions_release_their_slots_for_new_connections`
(reader_pool_postgres_tests.rs:354) | 40399635380#2 | The floor warms
one connection, so the second warm-up acquire dials cold inside 150 ms.
| Retry only that warm-up acquire on `PoolTimedOut`, for up to 5 s
(#8472's precedent). The stall under test keeps the production budget. |
| `buzz-db`
`readiness_check_cancellation_balances_waiter_and_inflight_connection`
(runtime/tests.rs:391, `Elapsed`) | 39785370353 | The test aborted
`pg_sleep(5)` after a fixed 25 ms. Recovery lands at server start + 5 s,
but the bound is abort + 5 s, a ~22 ms margin locally. | Poll
`pg_stat_activity` until the query is active, then abort. Use
`pg_sleep(1)` within the unchanged 5 s bound. |
| `buzz-relay` `upgrade_would_deny_line_is_written_at_auth_while_open`
(connection.rs) | None yet (preventive, added by #8634) | It used the
100 ms-acquire `test_state_with_database_url` against the real test
database, the same shape as the `PoolTimedOut` flakes above. | Use
`test_state_with_database_url_and_pool_options` with sqlx's default
timeout. The 100 ms helper is renamed
`test_state_with_unreachable_database_url`; all its remaining callers
use closed ports. |

Local before/after counts are from the original `flakey-tests` commit
(1f0451915), on macOS with OrbStack Postgres:

- Regression test: 3/3 FAIL before, 3/3 PASS after.
- Worker stress: 3 failures in 288 iterations before; 2,100 passing runs
after.
- Statement timeouts: 44/50 FAIL before, 50/50 PASS after.
- Sampler: 2/200 FAIL before, 200/200 PASS after.
- `MaskedActivity` under `pgbench -C`: 2/50 iterations FAIL before.
After, the lane passed 3× (613/613) but was not re-run under pgbench.
- Stalled reader: 10/30 FAIL before, 30/30 PASS after.
- Forced late-`Execute` cancellation: 10/10 FAIL before, 10/10 PASS
after.

### Verification

This branch was pushed without local re-verification, by the user's
choice: local test runs were overloading the machine and failing for
that reason. **Hosted CI is the check.** It was pushed with `git push
--no-verify`, because the pre-push hook runs clippy and unit tests.

- Every file on this branch is byte-identical to its final version on
`flakey-tests` (67185df6a), where the counts above were measured.
- Not re-run for this PR: clippy, nextest and the Postgres lanes.
- Checked for this PR: `git diff --check`, `rustfmt --check` on the
changed files, and a conflict-free merge with all six siblings onto
`main`.

### Readiness

This PR has a product fix (the `buzz-db` lease heartbeat). Under
AGENTS.md "Before opening a PR", it needs an agent review and a **human
check against a local relay** before `buzz-review-completed` is added.
Suggested check:

1. With local Postgres and a relay, submit and approve a user deletion
with `buzz-admin user-deletions submit` / `approve`.
2. Run `buzz-admin user-deletions run` until it completes, then run it
again at once.
3. Working looks like this: both runs complete, neither reports the
request as leased by another worker, and `buzz-admin user-deletions
inspect <id>` shows no leftover lease. The original race is rare and is
not expected to reproduce by hand; this check confirms releases still
commit.

### Merge order

Independent of the other six. It merges cleanly onto `main`, and with
every sibling, in any order.

### Sibling PRs

Split from `flakey-tests` (one PR per area): #8677 (relay E2E helper +
Windows shell), #8678 (mobile), #8679 (Tauri apt cache + Windows Rust
cap), #8680 (desktop product races), #8681 (desktop E2E state gates),
#8682 (desktop E2E composer + row actions).

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2026-10-30 10:00:41 +11:00
Tom Brow
4b21a10c4b fix: don't notify workflow owners through their attribution tag (#8694)
A workflow message names its owner in a marked p tag, ["p", owner, "", "owner"], for attribution. #p live, history and push matching, operator listeners, desktop, mobile and the iOS NSE treat that tag as attribution rather than a mention. A workflow that mentions its owner adds a plain p, so the owner is notified only when actually mentioned. NOSTR.md records the #p exception.

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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
2026-10-29 15:21:56 -07:00
Luke Tornquist
6d719c680a db: warm the relay read pool toward its ceiling at boot (#8651)
## Summary

At boot the relay's read pool holds only its floor (`max/5`). A freshly
started pod that meets a reconnect burst, such as the clients a rolling
deploy just moved off an old pod, has to dial the rest of its reader
connections inside the 150ms reader acquire budget. Cold dials (TCP +
TLS + SCRAM) overrun that budget under load, so those reads fall back to
the writer (`reader_acquire_timeout`).

This PR warms the read pool toward its ceiling in the background, right
after the existing boot ping succeeds:

- **Off the startup path.** It runs in the boot-ping task that was
already spawned and not awaited. Startup and readiness are unchanged.
- **Bounded.** One pass, in waves of at most 5 concurrent dials. Each
acquire, dial included, is bounded by the pool's own 150ms acquire
timeout. A dial slower than that is dropped and counts as failed, just
as it would on the request path. A wave that opens nothing ends the
pass, and the pass runs at most twice the waves a clean pass needs.
There is no sleep, backoff or second pass.
- **Released idle, then reaped.** Warmed connections are dropped back
into the pool, not closed. sqlx's existing `idle_timeout` reaps them
back down to the floor, so there is no new reaping logic.
- **Skipped if the reader is down.** If the boot ping finds the reader
unreachable, the warm pass doesn't run. Today's all-writer warning is
the only signal in that case.
- **No alert noise.** Warm acquires use plain `acquire()`, not the
instrumented reader acquire, so warm misses don't count toward the
`buzz_db_reader_*` acquire-timeout metrics that fallback alerts watch.
The existing `buzz_db_read_pool_*` gauges show the result.
- **Logged.** The outcome is logged at info when the pool reaches its
ceiling, and at warn when it falls short. Both lines carry `ceiling`,
`held`, `failed` and `elapsed_ms`. The ceiling field isn't named
`target`, because the relay's JSON formatter already emits the event
target under that key. `held` counts the connections the pass dialed
plus any idle floor connections it reused.
- **Window.** Until the pass ends it holds every reader connection, the
floor included. That is usually before the pod takes traffic. Boot-probe
retries can delay the pass past the listener bind, though, so it can
briefly overlap traffic, and a routed read that misses in that window
falls back to the writer.

**Cost.** Each pod holds up to `max_connections` reader connections,
instead of the floor, for about `idle_timeout` after boot. Operators
should size the reader's `max_connections` for pods ×
`BUZZ_DB_READ_POOL_SIZE` (falling back to `BUZZ_DB_POOL_SIZE`), counting
the old and new pods that overlap during a rolling deploy. The
configuration already permits that, and the `reader_min_connections` doc
now gives the same advice. Booting pods can have up to the floor plus 5
dials in flight, because sqlx's floor maintenance dials alongside the
first warm wave.

**Simpler?** This adds one bounded helper and leaves the pool
configuration alone: no new knob and no new metric. Separately, I
identified some debt: a REQ with `limit: 0` still acquires a reader to
run an empty query. A short-circuit straight to EOSE would remove that
acquire, and a companion desktop change sends `limit: 0` live REQs.

### Related issue
N/A. This is part of a set of reconnect-load reductions. The companion
client changes (resume cursor, reconnect spreading) are in separate PRs.

### Testing
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`, plus `cargo clippy -p buzz-db -p
buzz-relay --all-targets -- -D warnings`.
- `cargo test -p buzz-db`, including 6 new `reader_warm_tests`:
  - a table test for wave sizing
  - an exact target
  - the bound when dials keep missing
  - a top-up after a partial wave
  - a dead reader ending the pass after one wave
  - an unreachable reader skipping the warm
- The new Postgres test
`reader_pool_postgres_tests::reader_boot_ping_warms_pool_to_max_in_background`:
after `spawn_read_pool_boot_ping()`, the pool settles at size = idle =
max. It runs through `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh` together with the
existing reader-pool Postgres tests, and
`scripts/test-postgres-test-discovery.sh` passes.
- The new Postgres test
`reader_pool_postgres_tests::reader_warm_at_production_budget_ends_partial_when_dials_stall`.
It builds the pool with the production constructor, so it has the real
150ms budget, and puts it behind a proxy that relays 3 dials and stalls
the rest mid-handshake. The pass must end with 3 held and 7 failed after
exactly 10 dials, finish in under 2s, and not dial again afterward.
- Mutation checks. Each of these failed a new test:
  - zero waves
  - targeting the floor instead of the ceiling
  - `close_on_drop` instead of releasing
  - no early abort
  - no wave bound
  - no top-up
  - no ping gate
  - no concurrency cap

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Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 14:51:57 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
f6d31d13e4 db: answer match-nothing event reads without taking a connection (#8663)
## Summary

A NIP-01 `limit: 0` REQ asks for no stored events: it is a live-only
subscription. The relay still acquired a pool connection for it, then
ran a `LIMIT 0` query. Desktop is moving live subscriptions to `limit:
0`, so these acquires add up during a reconnect burst.

The existing match-nothing shortcuts in `query_events_on` (an empty
`kinds`, `authors`, `ids` or `#e` list) had the same cost, because they
ran after the caller had already acquired a connection.

This PR moves the query validation and the match-nothing checks into one
function, `answer_without_db`. It adds a zero page (`limit: 0`, after
the page clamp) to those checks, and every entry point now calls the
function before it acquires a connection:

- `query_events_with_operation`, which covers `Db::query_events` and its
writer variants
- `Db::query_events_routed`
- `Db::query_events_routed_bounded`
- `query_events_on`, for the session (aux) path that already holds a
connection

Invalid queries still return the same errors, in the same order, and
match-nothing queries still return an empty page. What changes besides
the connection:

- A routed match-nothing read now returns before `route_read`, so it
emits no `buzz_db_route_decision` and runs no replica proof. As desktop
moves live subscriptions to `limit: 0`, writer/replica route-decision
ratios will shift. Fewer reads are routed; no read changes destination.
- During a pool outage, an invalid query now returns its `InvalidData`
error instead of the pool error.
- A zero page skips checks that only SQL applies, such as rejecting a
negative `offset`. Current callers only build non-negative offsets.

**Simpler?** Yes. The four separate early returns become one predicate,
and the page-limit clamp is computed in one place (`page_limit`), shared
by the shortcut and the SQL builder.

### Related issue
N/A. This is a follow-up from https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8651.

### Testing
- New unit test,
`runtime::postgres_tests::match_nothing_reads_take_no_connection`. Both
pools point at a closed port, replica routing is on, and the fence is
forced open, so a routed read that reached `route_read` would try the
reader first. Each match-nothing shape (`limit: 0`, `max_limit: 0`, and
an empty `kinds`, `authors`, `ids` or `#e` list) must return an empty
page through the writer, routed and routed-bounded entry points. Invalid
queries that would also match nothing must return `InvalidData` through
each entry point. None of these may record a
`buzz_db_pool_acquire_attempts_total`. A `limit: 1` routed control must
fail after trying both the reader and the writer. The test runs in the
`cargo nextest run -p buzz-db --lib` unit lane.

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Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 14:21:08 -04:00
Brad Seiler
d6196a16c1 fix(relay): revoke invitations and restrict claims (#8237) 2026-10-28 18:42:49 -04:00
ravarora2
2c28e07133 BUZZ-413: Add user deletion fence storage (#8632)
## Summary

Add storage and lock helpers for the first user-deletion fencing PR. No
serving handler or deletion worker calls these helpers yet, so this does
not block users or enable real deletion.

The operator-global `user_deletion_fences` table stores global user
restrictions and community-scoped agent restrictions. Community and
profile deletion retain these rows unchanged. `scope_community_id`
records a restriction's scope; it does not make the row community-owned.

The helpers use the caller's transaction, stable identity lock keys,
ordered shared/exclusive locks, and indexed lookups. Inserts preserve
the original request and owner on retry and reject conflicting
provenance. Inserts validate the current worker lease and approved
inventory through the existing entity-deletion guards. Callers must
still verify that the target identities and agent ownership belong to
the request.

This is an additive schema expansion with a five-second migration lock
timeout. It adds no database triggers, functions, foreign keys, or
backfills. Both schema sources and operator-global registrations are
updated. The unused request-ID index was removed. The existing
community-deletion catalog and purge logic are unchanged. Tests cover
live schema parity, concurrency, rollback, and retention through the
existing purge and verification functions.

### Related issue

Part of
[BUZZ-413](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-413/gate-user-and-owned-agent-activity).
This is the storage foundation; serving checks and real workflow
handlers follow separately. No duplicate fence-storage PR found.

### Testing

No manual app testing: these utilities have no application callers yet.
Local PostgreSQL validation uses an isolated test container and the
repository's per-test database runner.

Passed 84 selected PostgreSQL tests covering fence authorization,
concurrent inserts, schema parity, retention, community deletion,
entity-deletion storage, and user discovery. The authorization
regression also failed as expected when the insertion guard was
temporarily removed; the guard was restored before the final run.

Command: `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p buzz-db --lib -E
'test(/user_deletion_fences/) | test(/admin_schema_parity_between/) |
test(/^store::deletion::postgres_tests::/) |
test(/^store::entity_deletion::postgres_tests::/) |
test(/^store::user_deletion::/)'` with the local test PostgreSQL
connection and `PG_BIN_DIR` configured.

The full `just test` run had one failure:
`composition_tests::composition_log_does_not_leak_issuer_url` missed an
expected log message. The same compiled test passed when rerun alone. No
relay logging code is changed by this PR.

The full local `just ci` run and all normal pre-push hooks passed on the
updated branch.

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2026-10-28 14:36:17 -04:00
Logan Johnson
646ef8abf9 Stop requiring the 0032 roster trigger at relay startup (#8611)
🤖
## Summary

When a relay starts, it checks that a database trigger from migration
0032 is installed and works. If the trigger is missing, the relay
refuses to start. This PR removes that startup check, so a later
migration can drop the trigger.

The trigger blocks a stale channel member list from being saved. Since
#8316, the relay runs the same check in Rust before every save of a
member list. The trigger is now only a duplicate backstop. Removing it
lets #8494 compute the `member`/`bot` label when it reads members,
instead of storing `bot` in the database.

This PR does not drop the trigger. The trigger stays installed and keeps
working. Only the requirement that it exists at startup is removed.

### Related issue

Prepares the trigger retirement that #8494 needs (review thread on #8494
about storing `bot`). No duplicate PRs found.

### Rollout

`docs/database.md` requires this sequence for retiring a trigger:

1. Ship the replacement in the app. This was #8316.
2. Fully deploy a release in which no relay requires the trigger. **This
PR.**
3. Drop the trigger in a separate migration, and name the step-2 release
as a required stop in its release notes.

A relay from before this PR refuses to start after the trigger is
dropped. So every environment, staging included, must run this release
before the drop ships.

## Details

- Removed the startup step `channel_roster_fence`, which ran the catalog
check and a behavior probe (a test insert that must be rejected, then
rolled back).
- Removed the catalog check that ran after migrations in
`run_migrations_locked`.
- The catalog check function stays, but only tests use it.
- Removed four tests about the startup gate. Added
`migrations_run_without_the_roster_trigger`: it drops the trigger in a
scratch database and runs the migrations. If the post-migration check
comes back, the test fails.
- `observability_source` lists the event writers that may skip the
guard. The probe was one of them, so it is removed from those lists, and
the expected writer count goes from 9 to 8.
- The Helm chart README now says that newer relays do not require the
trigger.

### Testing

- `cargo clippy -p buzz-db -p buzz-relay --all-targets -D warnings` and
`cargo fmt --check` pass.
- `observability_source` (21) and `startup_steps` (6) pass.
- `migrations_run_without_the_roster_trigger` passes. With the
post-migration catalog check restored, it fails with "channel roster
fence trigger missing".

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 11:42:49 -04:00
ngoodger-block
f33ebaafa1 refactor(schema): stop auto-fencing new tables in desired-state bootstrap (#8620)
### Why?

This is a cleanup that brings the schema bootstrap in line with how the
codebase works today, as asked for by
[`docs/database.md`](dc25198d53/docs/database.md (L103-L124))
(#8273). Writes are now blocked during community deletion by application
admission (`begin_community_write_transaction`), and that doc's Rule 1
says new tables must not add triggers. But
`schema/community_write_fence.sql` still looped over every table with a
`community_id` column and attached the old fence trigger to it. That
meant a new table got a trigger on a fresh database and none on a
migrated one, so the two schema paths disagreed and new tenant tables
were blocked. The doc says this bootstrap change must land "before the
feature, or as the feature's first PR."

### What?

Deletes the blanket fence loop and its `\i` from `schema/schema.sql`.
Existing legacy tables keep their fences through their explicit
`schema/triggers/` files, so no current table loses its fence and
runtime behavior is unchanged. Adds a test that a new `community_id`
table stays unfenced while `events` and `users` stay fenced, and updates
`docs/database.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` to match. It stands on its own;
the media-sharing PRs (#8451, #8444) are the first to rely on it.

buzz-review-completed

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Signed-off-by: Nikolaj Goodger <ngoodger@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 09:26:41 +11:00
ravarora2
834dca26bf Generate user community inventory for the dummy deletion workflow (#8605)
## Summary

User deletion can now discover current communities from a hex public key
or npub, save that inventory, and run it through the existing approval
and dummy workflow. `--pubkey demo` remains the default. Execution only
prints messages; it does not fence users or delete data.

Discovery combines explicit relay memberships with active channel
memberships, including users who have no relay membership row. It
deduplicates communities and preserves owner relationships. The saved
manifest contains only community IDs, labels and relationships.
Historical discovery and owned-community execution remain later work.
Submission rejects owner inventories atomically with a specific
unsupported-execution error; preview still includes owners.

This is an expand-schema change after #8520. Migrations 0072–0073
replace the demo-only target check with a bounded identifier check, with
5-second lock and 30-second statement timeouts. The database keeps the
user-only entity-type check while allowing different identity formats in
the target field. Workflow-specific commands reject entity types they
cannot execute. The application currently resolves demo and hex/npub
inputs; account-ID lookup is future work. The desired-state constraint
matches. No backfill, trigger, function, or foreign key is added.
Existing demo rows remain valid. Old binaries fail closed on new
manifests; use the new CLI for their approval and execution. Older
auto-migrating binaries need the documented rollback procedure.

Identity parsing and demo fixture selection stay in intake. Approval and
resume use the saved target without reparsing its format. The user
workflow defines its stage names and handlers; CLI stage validation
reads those rules instead of a separate three-name list. Shared
persistence accepts caller-defined stages. Permanent target uniqueness
is unchanged. Dummy submissions and execution belong in isolated,
disposable development databases; production preview uses read-only
access. CLI operator names remain self-asserted.

### Related issue

Follows #8520. Searched open PRs; no duplicate inventory change found.
#8489 is earlier workflow scaffolding.

### Testing

Built `buzz-admin` locally and applied all migrations to a fresh
disposable PostgreSQL database. Ran the actual CLI through preview →
submit → inspect → approve → `run --next-step` → resume → completed for
both demo and a public key with a channel-only membership fixture. Demo
completed five stages; the public-key run completed three. Injected
`--fail-stage purge_db`, waited for the retry deadline, and resumed the
same failed stage successfully. Membership data remained intact.

Repeated the CLI workflow on October 26 for demo and an npub backed by a
fresh production inventory. Production access used read-only credentials
and the real `inventory --pubkey "$SUBJECT"` handler. Copied only the
relevant discovery fields into an isolated local PostgreSQL database;
local channel parent rows supplied placeholder fields for foreign keys.
The inventory saved by local submission exactly matched the production
result. All workflow writes stayed local.

For each input, ran `submit --pubkey "$SUBJECT" --requested-by
local-e2e-submitter`, inspected the saved inventory, and confirmed
execution before approval was rejected. Approved its digest, then ran
each handler with `run "$REQUEST_ID" --next-step --stage-delay-ms 2500`
in a new process. Captured all three workflow tables during and after
every stage. Demo completed five stages across two communities; the npub
completed three stages for its discovered community. Each handler saved
`dummy: true`. Both requests finished with no current stage, no worker
lease, and no retries. Copied memberships remained intact. This
additional run exercised orderly resume; it did not inject a failure.

The reproducible command sequence and fixture setup are in [the
inventory walkthrough](docs/operator-user-deletion-inventory.md).
Production was not changed. The earlier full-workflow runs used
synthetic local fixtures; the additional npub run used captured
production discovery fields. Repository-wide `just ci` was not run;
validation focused on the affected packages and PostgreSQL workflow. The
pre-push desktop build failed with “Too many open files in system.”
Stopped the broader hook run and bypassed it to publish the earlier
commits; the affected-package Clippy and formatting checks had passed.

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2026-10-26 15:44:12 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
0e36dbc823 fix(db): keep the reader pool warm and drop its pre-acquire ping (#8495)
## Summary

The reader pool's 150ms `acquire_timeout` covers the whole acquire: the
pre-acquire idle-connection ping **and** any new-connection dial (TCP +
TLS + SCRAM). When readers slow down for a moment, the timeout:

- abandons in-flight dials mid-handshake (Postgres logs `could not
accept SSL connection: EOF detected`),
- closes healthy idle connections whose ping overran instead of
returning them to the pool, and
- falls every miss back to the writer, which then exhausts its own pool.

Across a fleet of relay pods this shows up as a burst of abandoned
handshakes on the readers that starts on nearly every pod at once,
followed seconds later by writer pool-acquire timeouts. The database
itself reports no statement, lock, or connection-limit errors before the
burst: the client is tearing down its own reader connections.

This PR removes that amplifier. It does not change the request budget,
writer fallback, or the writer pool.

### Change (`crates/buzz-db/src/runtime/mod.rs`)

- **Warm floor:** reader `min_connections` is now `max / 5`, at least 1,
derived from the existing reader pool size (no new config knob). sqlx
re-dials the floor in background maintenance, outside the request
budget, from its reaper and whenever a connection is closed instead of
released. The floor is per relay process, so standing reader connections
are the floor times the number of relay processes; size the reader's
`max_connections` for it.
- **Floor fills at boot:** with `max_lifetime`/`idle_timeout` set, a
lazy sqlx 0.9 pool does not dial `min_connections` at construction. The
existing boot ping now closes its probe connection instead of returning
it, which triggers sqlx's floor maintenance. Probe acquires that overrun
150ms retry with bounded backoff (250ms, 500ms, 1s, 2s). The doc comment
that said sqlx dials the minimum eagerly was wrong for this config and
is corrected.
- **`test_before_acquire(false)` on the reader:** the routed read's
`BEGIN … READ ONLY` already proves the connection and fails closed to
the writer (`reader_validation_error`). This removes one round trip per
checkout and the warm-connection churn.
- **Bounded fence proof:** with no pre-acquire ping, the proof (Aurora
capability probe, `BEGIN`, heartbeat observation) is the first round
trip on a checkout. It now runs under `READER_PROOF_TIMEOUT` (1s), so a
reader that stops answering without closing its sockets (partition, host
loss, failover) fails closed to the writer as the new route reason
`reader_proof_timeout` instead of hanging the request until TCP gives
up. 1s is well above a normal round trip, so a brief reader stall waits
on the reader rather than flooding the writer.
- **Bounded release:** every connection returned to the reader pool
first passes a release check bounded at 5s (`Db::read_pool_options`).
sqlx's own release ping has no timeout, so without this a socket whose
reader went silent would hold its slot until the kernel gives up; with
every slot held that way, the pool cannot dial the reader that replaced
it, and all routed reads fall back to the writer. A check that times out
or errors closes the socket and frees the slot, and floor maintenance
dials a replacement. A connection still inside a transaction is closed
instead of returned: a checkout dropped while its `BEGIN` was in flight
(a timed-out proof, a cancelled caller) has no `ROLLBACK` queued,
because sqlx counts the transaction only once `BEGIN` is acknowledged.
Closing it ends the session, and the server rolls it back. An expired
proof is therefore simply dropped. Maintenance checkouts (fleet usage
collection) also keep their close-on-drop: when one is abandoned at its
deadline, its socket is closed under sqlx's 5s close bound rather than
going through the release path.
- **Pinned isolation default:** reader sessions set
`default_transaction_isolation=read committed` in the startup packet,
which takes precedence over database and role defaults. The release
check depends on this, because it detects an open routed-read
transaction by its `REPEATABLE READ` isolation.
- **Metric:** each close is counted in
`buzz_db_reader_release_closed_total{reason}` (`timeout`, `error`,
`open_transaction`). Operator notes for the floor,
`reader_proof_timeout`, and this counter are in
`deploy/charts/buzz/README.md`.

### What got simpler

- The reader checkout path does one less round trip and no longer closes
healthy connections on a slow ping.
- Boot warm-up reuses sqlx's own `min_connections` maintenance rather
than re-implementing it.
- One release rule now covers every reader checkout, so the
open-transaction leak on cancelled reads no longer needs special
handling per call site.
- No new config knob.
- The reader test proxy now lives once in `test_support` instead of
inside `store/usage.rs`.
- Tests build their reader pools from the production options rather than
hand-copied ones.

### Tradeoffs

- The reader is now dialed at boot (previously "no reader dial at
boot"). If the reader is down at boot, this only produces log noise, and
reads still fail closed to the writer.
- The release check is one trivial statement (`SELECT
current_setting(...)`) per released reader connection. It runs in sqlx's
release task, after the response, so request latency is unchanged.
- The check detects an open transaction by comparing the current
isolation level with the session default. That is only sound because the
reader session default is pinned to `READ COMMITTED` and routed reads
begin `REPEATABLE READ`.
- **Residual window:** after the release check passes, sqlx sends its
own release ping (one more round trip), and that ping has no timeout. A
serving-read connection whose endpoint goes silent between those two
round trips still holds its slot until TCP gives up. Only releases
already mid-ping at that instant are exposed: later releases fail the
bounded check first and are closed. sqlx behaves the same way for every
pool on `main`. Maintenance checkouts avoid it through close-on-drop.
Bounding it for serving reads would mean replacing sqlx's release path
or putting a pooler in front of the reader, so it is left as a
follow-up.
- Boot fill is best effort. Each boot-probe retry still uses the 150ms
serving acquire budget, so if cold handshakes consistently take longer
than that, all five attempts fail and the floor is not filled at boot.
It fills the first time any reader connection is closed, which the
reaper and the release check both do, and until then reads dial as
before.
- This also closes pre-existing debt: a caller that dropped a routed
read mid-`BEGIN` (client disconnect) could leave a connection `idle in
transaction`. The release check covers that path too.

### Related issue

N/A (production incident follow-up; none found).

### Testing

- Postgres tests (`runtime/tests/reader_pool_postgres_tests.rs`):
- the boot ping leaves the reader pool at exactly its floor, all idle
(base leaves one connection);
- a warm reader whose heartbeat read blocks (exclusive lock) falls back
to the writer as `reader_proof_timeout` within one proof budget;
- a warm reader connection terminated server-side falls back as
`reader_validation_error` with no client error;
- a proof that times out mid-`BEGIN` on a paused reader (a test proxy
that holds bytes, like `docker pause`) falls back as
`reader_proof_timeout`. The reader database default is set to
`REPEATABLE READ` for this test. Once the reader resumes, it leaves no
`idle in transaction` reader backend, and the close is counted as
`open_transaction`. The test fails if the release check is made blind to
open transactions, or if the isolation pin is removed.
- Failover: every established reader session is stalled while new
sessions get through. Each stalled warm connection costs one
`reader_proof_timeout`, then routed reads reach the reader again through
new connections within 8s, and the closes are counted as `timeout`. The
test fails with the release bound removed.
- `store/usage.rs`: a fleet collection abandoned at its deadline on a
paused reader frees its slot within 3s while the reader is still paused,
which is faster than the 5s release check. The test fails with
maintenance close-on-drop removed.
- Unit tests: the min-connections mapping, the reader pool options, and
that construction still dials nothing.
- Blox, at `f3e3bf158`: `just fmt-check` and `just clippy` are clean,
and `buzz-db` unit tests are 191/191.
- Blox, at `01745b21e`: fmt is clean, the targeted reader tests passed 3
of 3 runs, and the release-bound and transaction-blind mutations both
turn the targeted tests red.
- Blox, at `2f8e482fb` (before the rebase onto `main`): fmt and clippy
are clean, the targeted reader tests passed 3 of 3 runs, `buzz-db` unit
tests pass, and each of four mutations turns its targeted test red:
release bound, transaction-blind check, isolation pin, and maintenance
close-on-drop.
- Blox, at the rebased head `e80bc2bed`: the same four mutations each
turn their targeted test red, and fmt, clippy, the targeted reader tests
(3 of 3 runs) and `buzz-db` unit tests are clean.
- CI Postgres lane at `e80bc2bed`: 1130/1130 passed, including every new
reader-pool test.
- Live check at `e80bc2bed`: a relay with a two-slot reader pool behind
a proxy, which was then frozen for 18s. All 246 history reads succeeded,
and the slowest took 1.0s. During the freeze, 2 proof timeouts and 2
release-timeout closes were counted. Reads returned to the reader within
36ms of the resume, and no reader backend was left `idle in
transaction`.
- Rebase note: `main` added a reader `after_connect` hook that tightens
`statement_timeout`. It now lives in `Db::read_pool_options`, so the
tests' reader pools get it too.

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Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-26 14:04:39 -04:00
Bradley Axen
a3a47e6294 feat(relay): add an unlisted channel setting (#8579)
🤖

## Summary

Sharing a Solo chat with a large channel today means adding every person
as a member, one at a time, and the app blocks the share past 100
people. The plan is to share it the way Google Docs does with "anyone at
the company with the link". Buzz's `open` visibility already gives that
kind of access: anyone in the community can read and join an open
channel. The problem is that an open channel also shows up in everyone's
channel list and search, and a private chat shouldn't appear there just
because its link was posted somewhere.

This PR adds a channel setting, `unlisted`. An **unlisted open channel**
can be read and joined by anyone who names it by id (from a shared
link). For non-members, it is left out of every read that does not name
it. Members see it as before. This is the relay side only; the buzz-app
change comes later. #8575 (batch adds) remains the path for small
audiences.

Unlisted is not an access control. Anyone who has the id can read the
channel, and that is intended.

## Solo flows this supports

Each user action is one event. The buzz-app side comes later; the relay
supports all of these now.

| Flow | Event | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Solo chat | kind:9007 `visibility private` + `["unlisted",
"true"]` | The chat starts unlisted, so it stays unlisted when any
client later opens it. |
| Share | One kind:9002: `visibility open` + `unlisted true` +
`join_role guest\|member`. Then post the link. | Anyone with the link
can read the chat by id, both history and live. Nobody is added as a
member, so the chat isn't in anyone's channel list. A non-member can't
post; `join_role` decides whether someone who joins can. |
| View | A REQ that names the chat by `#h`, or by `#d` for its metadata
| A non-member can read it. It is never listed for them. |
| Reply | kind:9021 join (the app sends it before a viewer's first
reply) | Joining makes them a member with the role from `join_role`, so
with `member` they can post. A kind:9022 leave makes them a viewer
again; the chat stays readable by id. |
| Unshare | kind:9002 `visibility private` | The existing open→private
eviction closes non-members' live subscriptions. New reads by
non-members are refused. |
| Convert to a channel | One kind:9002: `["t", ""]` + `unlisted false`,
plus `visibility` | Clears the Solo label. Non-members can now find it
in discovery. |

**Sidebar pins are not relay state.** Pin and unpin live in the app's
existing kind:30078 sidebar preferences, which sync across devices and
don't touch membership. Don't map them to join/leave: someone a chat was
shared with by member add is already a member, so a leave would remove
their access.

Your own Solo chats keep showing up, because you're their owner member,
and members see unlisted channels everywhere. Existing Solo chats aren't
backfilled. They get the flag when they're shared, because the share
event sets it.

**Open question, not built here:** someone who only views a shared chat
isn't a member. A mention of them doesn't reach their inbox (`#p:[me]`
without `#h`) and sends them no push.

## Behavior

| Reader | Reads that don't name the channel (kind:39000 without `#d`,
`#P` creator queries, messages, COUNT, NIP-50 search, artifact queries,
channel list) | Reads that name it (`#h`, or `#d` on 39000–39003) |
kind:9021 join |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Member | Listed | Readable | n/a |
| Non-member, unlisted open channel | **Not listed** | Readable | Works;
`join_role` still decides the role |
| Non-member, private channel (unlisted or not) | Not listed | Not
readable | Refused |

- **Setting it:** kind:9002 `["unlisted", "true"]` / `["unlisted",
"false"]`. Owner or admin only, like `visibility`. A missing tag means
no change. It can be sent in the same event as `["visibility", "open"]`,
so a private chat becomes open and unlisted in one step. Any other value
is refused before the event is stored. The relay posts an
`unlisted_changed` system message and clears the accessible-channels
cache across nodes. Nobody loses access when a channel is unlisted, so
no subscriptions are evicted.
- **At creation:** kind:9007 also takes `["unlisted", "true"|"false"]`.
A missing tag means listed. Any other value is refused before the event
is stored, as on kind:9002. It is stored with the channel row in the
create's transaction, on both the client-UUID path and the
relay-chosen-UUID path.
- **kind:39000** carries a bare `["unlisted"]` flag while the setting is
on. It does not add NIP-29 `hidden`, so the metadata stays readable by
id.
- **NIP-11** advertises `buzz-unlisted-channels` in
`supported_extensions`. A relay without this PR would apply
`["visibility", "open"]` and ignore `unlisted`, which would list the
chat publicly. So buzz-app must check for the extension before it sends
that pair.
- **CLI:** `buzz channels update --channel <id> --unlisted true|false`
and `buzz channels create ... --unlisted`.
`buzz_sdk::build_update_channel` takes a new `unlisted: Option<bool>`
argument, and `buzz_sdk::build_create_channel` takes `unlisted: bool`,
which emits the tag only when true.

### Open question: does `unlisted` only mean something when the channel
is open?

**Decision: store it on its own; it only has an effect while the channel
is open.** Private channels are already invisible to non-members, so on
a private channel the flag does nothing. It is still stored and
published, for three reasons:
- a client can mark a Solo chat unlisted before opening it, or in the
same event that opens it, so the chat is never listed even for a moment;
- switching private → open → private → open keeps the setting;
- there is no cross-field rule in kind:9002 to validate or keep in sync.

kind:39000 publishes the flag as stored, whatever the visibility, so
clients can show the setting.

## How

The relay already has a "readable only when named" path for system
channels (NIP-CL). Unlisted open channels reuse it:

- **`get_accessible_channel_ids`**: the open half (the implicit scope of
a REQ that doesn't name a channel) adds `AND NOT unlisted`. The member
half is unchanged, so members still have the channel.
- **`get_readable_named_only_channels`**: also returns unlisted open
channels of the legacy types. Every reader of that set (REQ, COUNT,
NIP-50 search, HTTP `/query` and `/count`, thread windows, workflow run
reads) adds a named-only channel only to a filter that names it, through
`filter_channel_scope`. An unlisted channel's type is `stream`/`forum`,
so the `#t:["system"]`/`#P` system opt-in never adds it.
- **`get_accessible_channels`** (the channel list): open channels are
listed to non-members only when not unlisted.
- **`query_artifacts`**: an artifact in an unlisted open channel reaches
a non-member only when the query's `#h` names that channel.
- **Live fan-out:** no change was needed. A global subscription never
receives channel-scoped events, kind:39000 included (`fan_out_scoped`).
A channel-scoped subscription has to name the channel, and that goes
through the same named-only authorization.

**Left alone on purpose:** access checks that read a named channel or
event keep treating an unlisted channel as open. These are
`handle_join_request` (kind:9021), the ingest write gate,
operator-listener mention delivery (`load_deliverable_event`), personal
read-state writes, and push matching. Push matching still requires
membership, so non-members get no pushes from an unlisted channel.

**Named reads checked:** these callers use the implicit channel set
(`get_accessible_channel_ids`, its cache, `get_accessible_channels`).
Every one that reads a channel the request names also adds the
named-only set, so a non-member can still read an unlisted open chat by
id. That covers WS REQ (history, live registration, NIP-50 search), WS
COUNT, HTTP `/query` and `/count`, thread windows and workflow run
reads. Other named reads don't use the implicit set: they check
visibility or membership, so an unlisted open chat counts as open. Those
are live fan-out, the ingest write gate, typing, kind:9021 join, huddle
audio join, operator-listener delivery, the workflow sink and read-state
writes. Feed queries (mentions, needs-action, activity) and the
`/buzz/v1/me/sidebar` accessory API are lists, so leaving out chats you
only view is intended. Media reads don't check channels. `buzz-auth`'s
`ChannelAccessChecker` has no production implementation.

## Database (docs/database.md checklist)

- **Phase:** expand only. The migration adds a column with a constant
default, and the same release ships the code that reads and writes it.
No backfill or contract step follows.
- No trigger, function, procedure, rule or foreign key is added.
- No migration changes existing rows. `ADD COLUMN ... BOOLEAN NOT NULL
DEFAULT FALSE` stores the constant default in the catalog, so the table
is not rewritten.
- Every location in Rule 4 is updated:
`migrations/0069_channel_unlisted.sql`,
`schema/tables/public/channels.sql`, and the migration count. No seeds,
types or reconcile changes are needed.
`admin_schema_parity_between_desired_state_and_migrations` now compares
`channels` columns between the pgschema desired state and the migrated
database. I failed it once by removing the column from `channels.sql`.
Only columns are compared for `channels`: on current `main`, pgschema
already re-emits `idx_channels_id_live` without its `INCLUDE
(community_id)`, an index drift that predates this PR and is noted in
the test.
- **Currently deployed relay against the new schema:** it never selects
or writes `unlisted`, and every insert gets the default. All
channel-record queries name their columns. Nobody can set the flag until
this relay ships, because the old relay refuses a kind:9002 whose only
tag is `unlisted`.
- The migration starts with `SET LOCAL lock_timeout = '5s'`. No index is
added: the new predicates ride the existing `(community_id, visibility)`
index.

## Rollout

1. Deploy. Every channel stays listed, so nothing changes.
2. **Don't unlist any channel while an old relay is still running.** An
old relay ignores the column and lists the channel to everyone. The
NIP-11 extension lets clients gate on this. Unlisted isn't an access
boundary, so a mixed fleet only exposes the channel in listings for a
while.
3. **Rollback:** an older relay ignores the column, so unlisted channels
show up as ordinary open channels again. Nothing breaks.

## Tests

Postgres (`buzz-db`, discovered by the Postgres lane):
- `unlisted_open_channel_is_named_only_for_non_members`: sets the flag
through `update_channel`. Then checks that a non-member doesn't get it
from `get_accessible_channel_ids` or `get_accessible_channels`, and does
get it from `get_readable_named_only_channels`; that a member still
lists it; that `put_member` (the kind:9021 path) lets the non-member
join, after which they list it; and that listing it again shows it to a
new reader.
- `unlisted_private_channel_stays_private_and_opens_unlisted`: a private
unlisted channel is not readable by name, and opening it keeps the flag.
- `group_metadata_publishes_the_stored_unlisted_flag`, plus the unit
test `publishes_the_unlisted_flag_as_stored`.
- `unlisted_channel_artifacts_are_read_by_name_for_non_members`.
- `channel_created_unlisted_is_never_listed`: creating through
`create_channel_with_event` (the kind:9007 path) and
`create_labeled_channel` stores the flag, and the channel is never
listed to a non-member.
- Mutation-checked: each of `NOT unlisted` in the implicit scope, `NOT
c.unlisted` in the channel list, the unlisted branch of the named-only
query, its `visibility = 'open'` guard, and the artifact condition was
removed one at a time, and each removal failed at least one of these
tests.

Relay E2E (`test_nip29_unlisted_channel_wire`, added to the CI relay E2E
step), against a local relay built from this branch:
- A non-member or an unknown value is refused.
- kind:39000 by `#d` carries `unlisted` and `public`, and not `hidden`.
- kind:39000 discovery without `#d`: non-members don't see the channel,
members do.
- History and NIP-50 search: unnamed, a non-member doesn't see the
channel's messages; with `#h`, they do; a member sees them unnamed.
- A kind:9021 join works, and the joiner then lists the channel.
- Listing it again shows it to everyone.
- A reader whose channel set was cached before each change sees the
change at once. I ran this against a relay with the cache invalidation
removed, and it failed.

Relay E2E (`test_nip29_solo_share_and_convert_wire`, added to the CI
relay E2E step), each flow as a single event:
- kind:9007 with an unknown `unlisted` value is refused. A chat created
with `unlisted true` publishes the flag, and stays unlisted after a
plain `visibility open`.
- Share (open + unlisted + `join_role guest` in one kind:9002): a
non-member doesn't list the chat. They read it by `#h`, both history and
a live message, and can't post. A kind:9021 join lists it for them as a
read-only guest. A kind:9022 leave unlists it again, and it stays
readable by `#h`.
- Unshare (`visibility private`): the viewer's live subscription gets
CLOSED, and a new `#h` read is refused.
- Convert (`["t", ""]` + `unlisted false`): the Solo label is cleared,
and a non-member finds the chat in discovery.
- I ran this against a relay that dropped the kind:9007 flag, and it
failed.

Also run: `cargo test` for buzz-db, buzz-sdk, buzz-cli, buzz-core,
buzz-relay and buzz-test-client; the Postgres lane for buzz-db and
buzz-relay (1045 tests); and the existing unlisted, announce, departure,
guest, role-change and NIP-43 snapshot wire tests. In the lane, two
tests failed on pool timeouts
(`resend_validated_after_the_first_commit_is_a_duplicate`,
`edit_replaces_and_clears_labels`) and passed when rerun alone. An
earlier run had the same kind of flake:
`routed_fallback_spends_one_acquire_budget_when_aurora_cache_is_cold` (a
timing budget) and `resent_edit_is_a_duplicate` (a pool timeout). In a
full local `e2e_relay` run, three tests outside CI's list also failed
(`test_invite_*` twice,
`test_unarchive_emits_member_added_notification`). They fail the same
way on a relay built from `main`.

## Not in this PR

- The buzz-app follow-up: support open Solo chats, the join-from-card
view, the large-audience prompt, and gating on `buzz-unlisted-channels`.
- A NIP-CL update. The behavior is documented in NOSTR.md ("Unlisted
channels").





buzz-review-completed

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Signed-off-by: Bradley Axen <baxen@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: ART <ea39c1c8acf57180161ef4ba4ed68abf8589f5291956b909a5aa991fc66664ca@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: mbot <3754f8729004d95654c46dbab3129e4ab9ef05cc2534e2a3fbfc155983bd637b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Luke Tornquist <tornquist@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-26 14:03:07 -04:00
ravarora2
4250014bae Run user deletion through saved stage transitions (#8520)
## Summary

An operator can submit, approve, and run a synthetic user-deletion
request through a durable workflow. The actions print messages; they do
not gate real users or delete data. The inventory contains artificial
participant and former-participant communities.

The worker calls one transition function, `get_next_stage(lease,
previous_stage_id)`. It receives a full stage row, passes it to the
handler, then asks again. All branching, community tracking,
initialization, and recovery live behind that function. Existing
community-deletion execution is unchanged.

### Related issue

Builds on merged #8496 and targets `main`. Inventory, separate approval
records, and the dummy executor remain together in this PR.

### Execution design

```text
approve → save approval; create no stages
run → claim request
    get_next_stage(lease, None) → full stage row
    handler(lease, row) → persist status and result
    get_next_stage(lease, Some(row.id)) → next row / Finished / WaitUntil
    repeat, then release ownership
```

- **Approval:** bind an operator's decision to the saved inventory
digest. Approval creates no execution rows. Operator names remain
self-asserted demo input.
- **Initialization:** claiming preserves the parent lifecycle. The first
transition creates `gate_user` and changes `approved` to `running`
atomically. A crash after claim but before initialization can safely
restart.
- **Handler:** read `metadata_json.inputs`, mark the row running, and
save its result or failure. A successful action leaves its row
`completed` and `is_current = true`. This is a durable transition
waiting to be processed.
- **Transition:** lock the parent, validate ownership, reload history
and the handler's saved result, and choose an allowed destination. Clear
the old current flag, save the decision, and insert the successor with
its inputs in one transaction. Terminal transitions complete the parent
instead. An insertion failure leaves the completed old row current.
- **Recovery:** `previous_stage_id` identifies the handler that just
returned; it must belong to the request. A restarted worker passes
`None` and finds the saved current row. If that row is completed,
transition it without repeating its action. If the switch already
committed, return the saved successor. Repeated calls never apply the
old transition twice.
- **Progress:** reconstruct covered communities from saved decisions and
the approved inventory. Each stage records its predecessor ID, so
reconstruction does not depend on timestamp ordering. Missing current
state in a started request, disconnected history, unknown stages, and
malformed results fail without inventing progress.
- **Ownership:** parent leases last 60 seconds and handlers renew them
every ten seconds. Generation checks reject stale writes. Handler and
renewal futures remain independently polled; renewal cannot prevent a
handler holding the parent lock from committing.
- **Step-by-step testing:** `run --next-step` executes one handler,
commits its transition, and exits with the successor pending. Repeat the
same command to advance again; the final step completes the request. The
former `--max-stages` and `--pause-after-handler` flags are removed.
- **Failure:** the handler saves the current row's error and a 30-second
retry deadline. The transition returns `WaitUntil`; the worker exits and
releases its lease. A later invocation retries the same row. No
background scheduler or automatic retry daemon is added.

The user workflow definition in `buzz-deletion/src/user/workflow.rs`
declares allowed destinations and a decision function per stage.
`gate_user` enters the first uncovered community. `purge_db` reads saved
`has_agents`: true selects `purge_agents`; false completes the community
immediately. Community completion selects the next uncovered community,
or finishes the request when all are covered. No full stage plan is
created upfront. The transition transaction contains no stage-name
comparisons or fixed community count.

Stage metadata stores `inputs`, `result`, `transition`, and
`previous_stage_id`. The parent retains inventory, ownership, retry, and
overall status. Approval evidence stays in `entity_deletion_approvals`.
A completed-current row bridges the two transactions; real handlers will
still need idempotent or reconciled actions if a process dies before
saving its result.

### Code organization

`buzz-deletion/src/user/worker.rs` runs the loop and heartbeat. Sibling
`handlers.rs` executes dummy actions. `transition.rs` defines
`UserDeletionTransition.get_next_stage()`, and `workflow.rs` owns the
user stage rules and community-progress reconstruction. The CLI remains
in `user.rs`.

`buzz-db/src/store/entity_deletion/` contains shared workflow
persistence: a small `mod.rs`, request reads/inspection in
`requests.rs`, approval evidence in `approvals.rs`, ownership in
`leases.rs`, and stage outcomes/atomic transitions in `stages.rs`.
User-specific submission, demo inventory, and inventory validation live
separately in `buzz-db/src/store/user_deletion/{requests,inventory}.rs`;
its `mod.rs` only defines and exports the store.

The worker calls the user transition object, which supplies a
synchronous decision function to `EntityDeletionStore.transition_stage`.
The store locks the parent, reads saved state, invokes that function,
checks the returned operation, and commits its writes. The decision
function performs no SQL or external calls. Reading, deciding, and
writing remain in one transaction; there is no stale-state gap. Shared
storage contains no user stage names or community-routing rules.
User-specific approval validation also runs inside the shared approval
transaction.

This reorganization changes no tables, migrations, stage metadata, or
CLI behavior. Requests using the existing saved-result format continue
to work. `--next-step` still runs one handler and commits its transition
before returning.

### Testing

The walkthrough in
[docs/operator-user-deletion-executor.md](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/rarora/user-deletion-approval/docs/operator-user-deletion-executor.md)
includes commands, SQL inspection, expected rows, and recovery
boundaries.

Submitted and approved a fresh local request and verified zero stage
rows. Ran `run --next-step` five times. Each call completed exactly one
handler, released ownership, and left its successor pending: B DB, B
agents, C DB, C agents, then request completed. A sixth call left saved
state unchanged. Verified both removed flags are rejected.

Ran `--demo-no-agents-in 00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000000c` and
verified four completed rows, with no C agents stage.

Injected a DB-stage failure, verified immediate retry refusal, waited
for the real deadline, and resumed the same stage row. Observed
heartbeat renewal and rejection of a competing worker, killed the owned
worker process, waited for its actual lease expiry, and resumed the same
unfinished stage with a new generation. Re-running a completed request
left its saved state unchanged. Repeated the CLI walkthrough after the
file reorganization, including runtime branching and a retry after the
real deadline; a completed request created before the reorganization
remained unchanged.

Mutation-tested the ownership and recovery guards against local
PostgreSQL 17. Reclaiming with the same executor ID rejects
old-generation operations. Independently disabling the ownership
generation check, release generation check, saved-transition/result
comparison, or heartbeat-failure handling made the corresponding test
fail. Restored all four protections afterward. The heartbeat test takes
over the request while its handler is already running.

### Schema and rollout

Unmerged migrations 0069–0070 add inventory and execution fields, widen
request lifecycle states, and create operator-global approval and
stage-history tables. They set five-second lock and thirty-second
statement timeouts; constraint validation has its own transaction. No
triggers, functions, foreign keys, or data backfills are added.
Desired-state and migration catalog parity cover all three tables. The
transition redesign adds no further schema changes.

The serving relay does not schedule these requests. Only the explicit
operator CLI runs them, using PostgreSQL. Only `demo:` targets are
accepted. Real account discovery, user-write fencing, owned-community
handling, and actual deletion remain future work. Verify staging with a
new demo label and the documented commands.

Older draft requests do not have the new stage metadata contract.
Preserve them and create a new demo request for this version; they are
not a supported resume format. Use a fresh database if an earlier draft
applied a different migration checksum. Never alter sqlx migration
checksums. With Helm `migrate.autoMigrate=true` (the chart default), a
relay binary that lacks 0069/0070 fails at boot with sqlx
`VersionMissing` after those migrations are applied. Recovery for this
rollout is a roll-forward: deploy a corrected binary that retains the
migrations. Do not delete migration records or change checksums to force
an older binary to boot. Rolling back with auto-migration disabled
requires a separately verified schema-compatibility plan. Demo requests,
stage history, and approvals are intentionally retained; this scaffold
has no cleanup command or retention job. Recheck migration numbering
before merge.

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Signed-off-by: Ravneet Arora <rarora@squareup.com>
2026-10-26 10:44:32 -04:00
Ian Oberst
20ba95ed89 fix(db): rebuild events_pkey in declared order after pgschema apply (#8525)
## Summary

Re-applying `schema/schema.sql` to a database that `pgschema apply` and
`scripts/reconcile-schema-after-pgschema.sql` already bootstrapped fails
with `cannot drop inherited constraint "events_p2026_01_pkey" of
relation "events_p2026_01" (SQLSTATE 42P16)`. Because of that,
`scripts/start-relay-for-tests.sh` breaks against a reused database.

**Cause:** pgschema 1.7.4 moves a partitioned table's partition key to
the front of its primary key when it creates the table. A
pgschema-bootstrapped `events` therefore gets `PRIMARY KEY (created_at,
community_id, id)`. `schema/tables/public/events.sql` and
`migrations/0001` both declare `(community_id, created_at, id)`. Every
later plan drops and re-adds `events_pkey` and each declared child's
key. This happens even on a database that was never reconciled. The plan
only becomes unexecutable after the reconcile script attaches the
children, because their keys are then inherited. As a side effect,
pgschema-bootstrapped databases also had a differently ordered PK index
than migration-managed ones.

**Fix:** after the partition ATTACH block, the reconcile script now
compares `events_pkey` with the declared `PRIMARY KEY (community_id,
created_at, id)`. If they differ, it rebuilds the key on the parent. It
then asserts that `events` and every partition carry the declared key,
which is the "convergence plus live assertion" shape `docs/database.md`
requires. PostgreSQL recreates each partition's key with the same
`<child>_pkey` names, so a reconciled re-apply now plans nothing. The
block does nothing when the key is already correct. `migrations/0001` is
untouched. Only pgschema-bootstrapped dev and test databases run this
script, so it does not touch the out-of-band partitioned-table
procedure.

`delivery_log` is not affected. Its key `(delivered_at, id)` already
starts with the partition key.

**Existing local databases:** a database reconciled before this change
would still fail its next `pgschema apply`, because the reconcile script
only runs after apply. The repair therefore also lives in
`scripts/repair-events-pkey.sql`. That file does nothing when `events`
doesn't exist yet, and `scripts/start-relay-for-tests.sh` runs it before
apply; it's the only launcher that reuses its database. The reconcile
script keeps a verbatim copy for fresh bootstraps, and a unit test keeps
the two identical.

The rebuild drops the key with `IF EXISTS`, so a database that has lost
its key still converges. It also takes its locks with a 10s
`lock_timeout`. If a relay still holds `events`, it fails with "Stop any
relay using this database, then rerun" instead of hanging.

`start-relay-for-tests.sh` now builds the relay's `DATABASE_URL` from
the `PG*` variables it already exports. The secret scanner flags the
literal URI once the file is touched. The value is unchanged.

pgschema 1.13.3 keeps the declared order and creates children as native
`PARTITION OF`. Upgrading would make this block and the ATTACH blocks
unnecessary, but it changes behavior for every caller, so it is left for
a separate change.

### Related issue

Follow-up to block/buzz#8487, which added the probe test and
`.pgschemaignore`. Now rebased onto `main` after that PR merged.

### Testing

- `pgschema_reapply_keeps_runtime_partitions` now asserts the plan after
the maintenance pass is **empty**, which replaces the `DROP TABLE` and
per-monthly plan checks. It then applies and reconciles a second time.
Without the new block it fails with `ALTER TABLE events DROP CONSTRAINT
events_pkey; ...`. With the block it passes.
- It also includes the optional notes from the #8487 review:
- After maintenance, it checks that both catch-alls are still present
and attached, not only that the zipped bounds differ.
- The first runtime monthly comes from the declared catch-all's lower
bound instead of a hard-coded `p2026_07`.
- The doc comment now states only what the test pins: bounds are not
compared, and the plan is empty.
- I broke the rebuild on purpose by re-adding the key in the wrong
order. The new assertion fails the reconcile script with `events and its
partitions must have PRIMARY KEY (community_id, created_at, id)`.
- CLI runs against local Postgres 17:
- Fresh DB: apply → reconcile → apply → reconcile → plan. The second
apply reports no changes and the plan is empty.
- DB reconciled with the old script: the next apply fails with SQLSTATE
42P16. After running the new reconcile script once, apply reports no
changes and the plan is empty.
- `events_pkey_repair_runs_before_reused_apply_and_matches_reconcile`
checks two things: the reconcile script carries the repair block
verbatim, and `start-relay-for-tests.sh` runs the repair before
`pgschema apply`. It fails if the two copies drift.
- I ran the repair script and then the bootstrap against four local
probe databases: one reconciled with main's script, an empty one, one
applied but never reconciled, and one with no `events` key. All four end
with an empty plan. With another session holding a lock on `events`, the
repair fails after 10s with the hint and leaves the key untouched. It
succeeds once the lock is released.
- `admin_schema_parity_between_desired_state_and_migrations` and the
`runtime::migration` unit tests pass. fmt and clippy are clean.

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Signed-off-by: Ian Oberst <ioberst@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Ian Oberst <ioberst@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 10:57:49 -07:00
ravarora2
2d289f720d BUZZ-301: Add user deletion request intake (#8496)
## Summary

Add the first testable piece of user deletion: submit a synthetic
request, list requests, and inspect one by UUID. Operators can verify
that intake reaches PostgreSQL before we add inventory, approval, and
execution.

Add one operator-global `entity_deletion_requests` table with an
additive migration and matching desired-state schema. Identical
submissions return the same row. Conflicting submissions fail without
changing it. Only `demo:` targets are accepted, and requests stay
`submitted`.

Keep the commands in `buzz-deletion`, reached through a thin `buzz-admin
user-deletions` adapter. Reuse the existing database connection setup.
This change adds no worker, stage history, community gates, or deletion
operations.

### Rollout plan

This is an expand-only schema change plus an operator CLI. Existing
relay code does not use the new request table. No backfill or real
deletion is part of this release.

1. **Order the PRs.** Land #8496 first, using 0068; main now owns 0067
for channel join roles. Rework #8489 to build on this table with the
next available migration number. Renumbering its existing CREATE TABLE
migration alone is insufficient; both PRs currently create the same
request table.
2. **Apply on staging.** For deployments that manage schema separately,
apply the reviewed additive migration before using the new CLI. Where
auto-migration is enabled, the new relay binary applies it at startup.
Keep existing tables and records unchanged.
3. **Verify on staging.** Use the new `buzz-admin` binary with
`DATABASE_URL` pointing to staging. Submit a unique synthetic label,
list requests, and inspect the returned UUID:

   ```bash
buzz-admin user-deletions submit --target demo:staging-intake-1
--requested-by <operator>
   buzz-admin user-deletions list --limit 5
   buzz-admin user-deletions inspect <returned-uuid>
   ```

Verify one `entity_deletion_requests` row with status `submitted`.
Repeat the identical submission and verify the same UUID and timestamps.
Use a new label if this label was used by an earlier staging test.
4. **Apply beyond staging.** After verification, use the deployment's
reviewed schema/release workflow to add the table in the remaining
environments. Requests run only through the operator CLI; this release
starts no deletion worker. No feature flag is needed for this synthetic
intake: the database accepts only `demo:` targets, and real deletion is
absent.
5. **Rollback.** Keep the additive table and saved requests; stop using
the new commands and roll back the binary if needed. After 0068 is
applied, an older binary with auto-migration enabled can fail at startup
with sqlx `VersionMissing`. A binary rollback therefore requires
migration execution to be disabled on the older relay
(`BUZZ_AUTO_MIGRATE=false`, including the corresponding deployment
configuration).

### Related work

This is a smaller first slice of the full-workflow draft
[#8489](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8489), which is preserved for
later extraction. The two PRs overlap and should not both be merged as
written.

### Testing

The author submitted `demo:rarora-manual-1` to a separate local
PostgreSQL 17 database. Repeating the same submission returned its
original UUID and timestamps. List, inspect, and a direct SQL query all
returned the same saved request.

<details>
<summary>Actual command inputs and outputs</summary>

Commands ran from the new worktree with `DATABASE_URL` set to the local
`buzz_user_deletion_submit` database. Outputs below are stdout;
connection diagnostics on stderr are omitted.

**Submit again — returns the existing request without creating a
duplicate**

```bash
./target/debug/buzz-admin user-deletions submit \
  --target demo:rarora-manual-1 --requested-by rarora
```

```json
{
  "id": "2e5bcdec-ab68-44d2-9743-1dd9fa7d2f89",
  "entity_type": "user",
  "target": "demo:rarora-manual-1",
  "status": "submitted",
  "requested_by": "rarora",
  "reason": null,
  "created_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z"
}
```

**List saved requests**

```bash
./target/debug/buzz-admin user-deletions list --limit 5
```

```json
[
  {
    "id": "2e5bcdec-ab68-44d2-9743-1dd9fa7d2f89",
    "entity_type": "user",
    "target": "demo:rarora-manual-1",
    "status": "submitted",
    "requested_by": "rarora",
    "reason": null,
    "created_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z"
  }
]
```

**Inspect one request**

```bash
./target/debug/buzz-admin user-deletions inspect 2e5bcdec-ab68-44d2-9743-1dd9fa7d2f89
```

```json
{
  "id": "2e5bcdec-ab68-44d2-9743-1dd9fa7d2f89",
  "entity_type": "user",
  "target": "demo:rarora-manual-1",
  "status": "submitted",
  "requested_by": "rarora",
  "reason": null,
  "created_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-20T19:57:44.516698Z"
}
```

**Read the table directly**

```bash
docker exec buzz-user-deletion-dev-20261020 \
  psql -X -U buzz -d buzz_user_deletion_submit -c \
  "SELECT id, entity_type, target, status, requested_by
   FROM entity_deletion_requests ORDER BY created_at DESC;"
```

```text
                  id                  | entity_type |        target        |  status   | requested_by 
--------------------------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+--------------
 2e5bcdec-ab68-44d2-9743-1dd9fa7d2f89 | user        | demo:rarora-manual-1 | submitted | rarora
(1 row)
```

</details>

A separate CLI smoke test also verified that a conflicting operator and
a non-demo target fail without changing the saved request. The existing
community-deletion `list --limit 1` command passed against the smoke
database.

See [the intake
walkthrough](729233c726/docs/operator-user-deletion-intake.md)
for setup, commands, expected fields, and the SQL query.

Generated with Codex

---------

Signed-off-by: Ravneet Arora <rarora@squareup.com>
2026-10-22 10:49:27 -04:00
Ian Oberst
347ce88d5d fix(db): keep pgschema re-apply from dropping runtime partitions (#8487)
## Summary

pgschema doesn't compare partition bounds. Re-applying
`schema/schema.sql` to a database a relay has used therefore plans `DROP
TABLE IF EXISTS ... CASCADE` for every `events` / `delivery_log` monthly
the partition manager created at runtime, and those tables' rows are
deleted with them. Since #8464 the manager advances the catch-all by
default, so any local dev or test database a relay has started against
now hits this. One example is the persistent `buzz` database that
`scripts/start-relay-for-tests.sh` re-applies.

This adds a root `.pgschemaignore` that hides dated monthlies
(`events_p2*`, `delivery_log_p2*`) from pgschema. The monthlies declared
in `schema/partitions/` are exempted with `!` patterns, so pgschema
still manages them. pgschema reads the file from its working directory,
and every caller already runs it from the repo root: the test-relay
launchers, `postgres-test-setup.sh`, the desktop release smoke and
`_ci-relay.yml`. Both partition files now carry a note pointing at it,
and AGENTS.md gotcha #7 adds "run pgschema from the repo root" next to
the reconcile rule.

New-install layout is unchanged.

**Why the drops haven't deleted data yet:** on a reconciled database a
re-apply also plans to drop and re-add the `events` primary key on the
parent and on each declared child. The apply then fails with `cannot
drop inherited constraint "events_p2026_01_pkey"` (42P16). That happens
with or without this PR. The planned drops run in the same single
transaction, so they roll back, and the runtime monthlies have survived
so far. Once that primary-key drift is fixed, re-applies will succeed
and this ignore file is what keeps them from dropping the runtime
monthlies. The primary-key fix is a separate follow-up.

### Related issue

Follow-up to #8464. Salvaged from an earlier branch; no existing issue
found.

### Testing

- `pgschema_reapply_keeps_runtime_partitions` (Postgres) follows the
real bootstrap path in a dedicated database:
- `bin/pgschema apply` from the repo root, then
`scripts/reconcile-schema-after-pgschema.sql`;
  - the relay's default maintenance pass (create plus advance);
- asserts that both catch-alls were attached before the pass and that
their bounds moved after it;
- asserts that each parent's `p2026_07` monthly exists. The catch-all
advanced past the declared bounds but kept its name.
- asserts that `pgschema plan` contains no `DROP TABLE` and no line
mentioning any runtime monthly.
- Falsified both ways:
- With `.pgschemaignore` removed, the test fails and prints the planned
drops.
- Without the reconcile step, it fails with `reconcile did not attach
both catch-alls`.
- `pgschemaignore_exempts_exactly_the_declared_monthlies` checks that
the `!` exemptions exactly match the dated monthlies in
`schema/partitions/`.
- The admin parity test now shares the `pgschema` helper, so it also
runs from the repo root like the real callers.
- All `runtime::migration` and `store::partition` tests pass against
local Postgres after merging current main, including the ignored ones:
104 passed, run with `--test-threads=1` because the full nextest
Postgres lane needs local `dropdb`. `clippy -D warnings` and the
pre-push lanes pass.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

---------

Signed-off-by: Ian Oberst <ioberst@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Ian Oberst <ioberst@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 17:14:22 -07:00
Luke Tornquist
2f2f6e2774 fix(db): bound every statement and the #p mention scan (#8461)
## Problem

An agent `#p` + `#h` + `since` REQ (the `require_mention` subscription
in `buzz-acp`) ran for over 45 minutes on a production writer and held
`AccessShare` on every `events` partition. There were two causes:

1. **The mention side of the `#p` join was unbounded.**
`build_query_events_sql` joined `event_mentions` on `(community_id,
event_id)` only. The planner picked a nested loop whose outer side was
every mention of the pubkey, ever, and whose inner side range-scanned
the channel index from `since` on each partition. Cost ≈ total mentions
× channel rows since `since`.
2. **Nothing cancelled it.** The writer `statement_timeout` defaulted to
`0`. Only `#e` reads had a deadline (the 20s cap from #7854), and
read-replica sessions had none at all.

`pg_stat_statements` shows this shape has a multi-thousand-second max
going back months, so it is chronic and was not introduced by a recent
change.

## Change

**`#p` mention bound** (`store/event.rs`, `push_mention_join`, shared by
the page SELECT and COUNT)
- Join on the full event key, `AND e.created_at = m.event_created_at`.
Mention rows copy the event's `created_at` at insert (migration 0007
already relies on this equality), so the join can prune `events`
partitions by time.
- Repeat `since`/`until` on `m.event_created_at`, so the outer scan is a
range on the existing `idx_event_mentions_pubkey_created`. `until` is a
superset bound for the keyset cursor; the exact `(created_at, id)`
cursor test stays on `e`.
- Repeat `kinds` on `m.event_kind` when the filter has kinds. Every
production mention writer binds the event kind (`insert_mentions` in
`store/runtime/mod.rs`, and the replaceable-event path in
`store/replaceable.rs`, back to the first Postgres schema), and no
migration inserts mention rows, so this drops no rows written by the
relay. Rows imported out of band with a NULL `event_kind` would no
longer match a kinds-filtered `#p` read; a read-only production count on
2026-10-20 found 0 such rows on both production reader databases. The
pushdown makes `idx_event_mentions_pubkey_kind_created` available to the
planner for the `require_mention` kind-9 shape; its use has not been
observed (see below). An E2E fixture with a hand-set NULL `event_kind`
row confirmed the caveat: base returns 8 events, head 7.
- The feed's mentions and needs-action queries (`store/feed.rs`,
`build_mentions_query` / `build_needs_action_query`) join
`event_mentions` the same way, so each joined row probes one `events`
partition instead of all of them. Their `ORDER BY m.event_created_at ...
LIMIT` already kept them from running away; this removes the per-row
cross-partition probe.
- Observed plan (E2E at `9cb6638b1`, before the `kinds` pushdown; 60,000
historical mentions + 2,500 recent decoys, stock planner, `EXPLAIN
(ANALYZE, BUFFERS)` of the captured production SQL): the mention side is
a bounded range on `idx_event_mentions_pubkey_created` (13 rows), then a
hash join with a scan of the recent `events` partition. Base scanned
2,509 recent events and probed `event_mentions_pkey` 2,509 times. Head:
**1.1 ms / 319 shared hits**; base: **8.5 ms / 10,049 shared hits**. Not
measured against the production replica. A fresh `EXPLAIN (ANALYZE,
BUFFERS)` replay at `a7065c367`, after the pushdown, ran on a smaller
fixture where the planner chose a sequential mention scan, so it neither
confirms nor replaces these numbers.

**Reads: 20s deadline on every generic event read**
- `query_events_on` and `count_events_on` always run under the
transaction-local 20s deadline that `#e` reads used
(`fetch_with_read_deadline`, formerly `fetch_with_e_tag_deadline`). It
only tightens: shorter operator or caller caps are kept.
- Read-replica sessions get a 20s session default through
`after_connect`, using the same tighten-only SQL.
- Cost: every generic REQ history read and COUNT now pays BEGIN +
`set_config` + ROLLBACK (three extra round trips; before, only `#e`
reads did). In the local E2E the end-to-end history read was still
faster at head (median 4.1 ms vs 10.2 ms at base, 9 samples each, warm
cache), so the round trips are dominated by the bounded plan; this does
not isolate them or establish production p99. The round trips also
lengthen how long each such read holds its writer connection; that hold
time has not been measured against production pool sizing.
- A replica read cancelled at its deadline (57014) is returned, not
re-run on the writer. Usually the cancel means expensive work the writer
would only repeat. It can also mean the replica waited on a lock only it
holds (a replayed `ACCESS EXCLUSIVE` from primary DDL), when the writer
would have answered quickly; that miss is the accepted price of keeping
runaway reads off the primary. The rationale now lives once on
`DbError::is_statement_cancelled` instead of in a dozen copied comments.
The generic routed reads and `ReadSession` already did this; the eight
routed reads with their own SQL (feed mentions, needs-action and
activity; thread replies; channel window; relay membership; thread
window and its auxiliary scan) now do too. A cancelled auxiliary scan
also keeps its replica session instead of degrading it to the writer for
the rest of the request. Other replica failures (e.g. hot-standby
recovery conflicts) still fall back to the writer.
- Paths with their own tighter `SET LOCAL` (artifact 2–5s, thread window
4s, personal reads, usage 5–15s, serving lease 1.5s) are unchanged.

**Writes: every writer session is bounded**
- The default `statement_timeout` changes from `0` to 120s
(`DEFAULT_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_MS`).
- `BUZZ_DB_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_MS` still overrides it. `0` or any value
above 300s installs 300s (`MAX_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_MS`), so a session can
no longer disable it, and a clamped value logs a `warn!` when the pool
is built. Only the operator-approved, fenced destruction paths below
lift it, per transaction.

**Long-running writer paths, audited**
| Path | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Migrations / schema destruction
(`with_exclusive_schema_destruction_lock`) | Unchanged: these lift lock
and statement timeouts on their own detached connection |
| Partition maintenance | Unchanged: own 5s `statement_timeout` |
| Partition audit (`buzz-admin`) | Unchanged: 30s |
| Community deletion inventory, purge and logical verification
(`inventory_schema` whole-tenant counts, `purge_postgres`
whole-community `DELETE` per table in one tx,
`verify_postgres_logically_deleted` whole-tenant `EXISTS` per table
right after the purge) | Lifted (`statement_timeout = 0`)
transaction-locally by `lift_statement_timeout`, like migrations; lock
and idle timeouts still bound them. Inventory counts each table in its
own lifted transaction, so each table's lock and snapshot are released
as soon as its count finishes, as the autocommit counts did. A cancelled
purge would retry from scratch and eventually block, so a cap here would
turn large-tenant deletion into an operator override |
| Audit appends (`buzz-audit`, audit pool inherits the writer cap) |
Waits on the audit-chain advisory lock. With `BUZZ_DB_LOCK_TIMEOUT_MS=0`
(or at least the statement cap), `statement_timeout` (57014) cancels the
wait instead of `lock_timeout` (55P03). The relay's audit worker now
retries both with the same backoff instead of dropping the entry on
57014; admission refusal stays terminal |

On HTTP routes a statement timeout already maps to the distinct
retryable 503 (`api/mod.rs`, `statement_timeout_maps_to_distinct_503`).
A cancelled REQ fails its history read instead of hanging.

## Tests
- `p_tag_query_bounds_mention_side_by_time` (unit): page and COUNT SQL
carry the `created_at` join and the `since`/`until`/`kinds` mention
bounds, and the bounds are absent when the filter has none.
- `p_tag_read_with_mention_bounds_keeps_results` (Postgres): through the
production mention insert, unbounded, `since`, window and keyset-cursor
reads return exactly the mentioned rows, and COUNT matches. Every bound
sits exactly on a mentioned row's second and the cursor page includes a
same-second sibling after the cursor id, so an off-by-one on either
mention-side bound fails it.
- `plain_read_is_cancelled_at_deadline_when_timeout_disabled` /
`count_events_cancels_at_read_deadline_when_timeout_disabled`
(Postgres): the production `#p` + `#h` + `since` shape and a plain COUNT
are cancelled at 20s with the session timeout disabled. Previously these
covered `#e` only.
- `writer_statement_timeout_is_always_bounded` (unit) and
`session_statement_timeouts_bound_writer_and_reader_sessions`
(Postgres): through `Db::new`, writer sessions install `2min` / `5min`
(for `0` and for 600s) / `45s`, and replica sessions install `20s`.
- `deletion_whole_tenant_stages_outlive_the_writer_statement_timeout`
(Postgres): on a scratch desired-state database with a 500ms writer cap,
the real `inventory_schema`, `purge_postgres` and
`verify_postgres_logically_deleted` each wait behind a held `ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE` lock on `events` for over 1s and still complete, a plain
statement is cancelled (57014), and pooled sessions still read `500ms`
afterwards. A lifted transaction reads `statement_timeout = 0`, so a
bounded lift (e.g. `'300000'`) fails it, as does removing any of the
three `lift_statement_timeout` calls.
- `mentions_query_is_tenant_scoped_and_joins_mentions_by_composite_key`
/
`needs_action_query_is_tenant_scoped_and_joins_mentions_by_composite_key`
(unit): both feed queries carry the `e.created_at = m.event_created_at`
join.
- `replica_statement_cancel_propagates_without_writer_rerun` (Postgres):
with the replica locked past its cap, each of the six routed reads above
returns 57014 instead of the writer's copy. Removing the cancel arm in
any of them fails it.
- `thread_window_statement_cancel_propagates_without_writer_rerun`
(Postgres): a thread-window read parked behind a replica lock and
cancelled (57014; the window's own 1s `lock_timeout` would otherwise
fire first) returns the cancel instead of the unlocked writer's window,
and an auxiliary scan timed out on a replica session returns 57014 and
leaves the session on the replica. Removing either guard fails it.
-
`audit_worker_retries_statement_timeout_until_original_entry_is_appended_once`
(Postgres, `buzz-relay`): the production audit worker, with
`lock_timeout` disabled and a 100ms statement cap, keeps the entry
through repeated 57014 cancels while the chain lock is held and appends
it exactly once after release. Treating only 55P03 as retryable fails
it.
- The existing writer and audit-pool GUC tests now expect `5min` for a
disabled statement timeout.

## After deploy, watch
-
`buzz_db_route_decision{decision="replica",reason="statement_cancelled"}`:
replica reads that now fail instead of falling back to the writer,
including the replica-only lock case above.
- `buzz_db_pool_acquire_wait_seconds` and `buzz_db_pool_waiters` on the
writer pool: every generic REQ history read and COUNT now holds its
connection for three extra round trips.

## Database checklist (`docs/database.md` § Review checklist)

This PR changes schema-dependent `buzz-db` queries (the `#p` join and
its `m.event_kind` pushdown). It does not change the schema.

- **Phase:** none. No schema change, so this is not an expand, backfill
or contract step. Nothing before or after it is required.
- **Triggers, functions, procedures, rules, foreign keys:** none added.
- **Row mutations / backfill:** no migration, and no row is mutated or
backfilled. The one data-shape dependency is mention rows with a NULL
`event_kind`: a kinds-filtered `#p` read no longer matches them (see the
`kinds` bullet under Change). Relay writers always bind `event_kind`, so
only rows imported out of band are affected. A read-only production
count on 2026-10-20 found 0 such rows on both production reader
databases.
- **Contract migration:** N/A.
- **Rule 4 locations:** none touched. No table, index or desired-state
file changes, so no parity test applies. The new bounds use the existing
`idx_event_mentions_pubkey_created` and
`idx_event_mentions_pubkey_kind_created`.
- **Deployed relay vs. new schema:** there is no new schema. The
currently deployed relay and this relay run against the same tables.
- **Lock and statement timeouts:** this PR is about them. Generic reads
get a 20s deadline, replica sessions a 20s default, and writer sessions
a 120s default capped at 300s. Community-deletion transactions lift
`statement_timeout` per transaction; migrations and schema destruction
are unchanged (see "Long-running writer paths, audited"). No index
builds and no operator prebuild step.

## What got simpler
- One read-deadline path instead of an `#e`-only branch in
`query_events_on` and `count_events_on`.
- The `#p` join SQL that was duplicated between SELECT and COUNT now
lives in one `push_mention_join`.
- The deletion tests share one scratch desired-state database helper
instead of an inline copy.
- "Is this query bounded?" now has one answer: yes, unless it runs in a
migration, schema destruction, or community-deletion transaction.

## Identified debt (not in this PR)
- `buzz-acp` re-sends the same filter after a timeout `CLOSED` (no
backoff or narrowing). With the `#p` bound the `require_mention` read
should finish well inside 20s, so this is a follow-up, not a blocker.

---------

Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-21 19:35:03 -04:00
Logan Johnson
d97f6b4c6e feat(relay): add announce channels with a join_role setting (#8143)
🤖
## Summary
Channels are Buzz's main way to control access, but today they cannot
separate reading from writing. In an open channel, anyone who can read
can also write. So there is no way to say "many people read, a few
people write". Announcements, release feeds, plugin release records and
shared configuration all need that.

This PR adds **announce channels**: anyone can follow and read them, but
only members can post. It does this with one new channel setting and
without changing what any role means.

- **Roles mean the same thing in every channel.** A *guest* can read and
leave, but cannot write. A *member* (or *bot*) can write. *Admins* and
*owners* also manage the channel. The relay already had the guest role,
but no client used it until now.
- **A new setting, `join_role` (`member` | `guest`), picks the role a
new person gets** when nobody chooses one: when they join by themselves,
or when someone adds them without a role. The default, `member`, keeps
today's behavior for every existing channel.
- **An open channel with `join_role = guest` is an announce channel.**
Anyone can find, read and join it. People who join are guests, so they
cannot write until someone makes them a member.

The relay enforces these rules, so a client cannot get around them.

What each role can do (the same in every channel):

| Action | Guest | Member or bot | Admin / owner |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Read, leave | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Post, reply, edit, delete own, react, artifacts, canvas, forum, pins,
topic, typing, workflow messages, save or run workflows, huddles | ❌ | ✅
| ✅ |
| Add people | ❌ | ✅ as member, guest or bot | ✅ any role |
| Make a guest a member (person or agent) | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Any other role change | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Change name, about, visibility, TTL, `join_role` | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |

Other rules:

- **Joining by yourself.** A person who joins (kind:9021), or adds
themselves (kind:9000 with their own key), gets the channel's
`join_role`. They may ask for `join_role` or a lower role, never a
higher one. So in an announce channel nobody can join as a member by
themselves.
- **Non-members.** A non-member may write only where joining would let
them write: an open channel with `join_role = member`. That is today's
behavior for open channels.
- **Agents.** Agents follow the same rules as people. Any member who can
write may make a guest agent a member. Limits that only an agent's owner
may lift belong to the later IFC work (its "restricted" agent level),
not to this PR. That work only refuses more actions, so it can be added
later without breaking anything here.
- **Leaving always works.** A member may leave an archived channel too
(kind:9022, or kind:9001 naming themselves). The last owner still cannot
leave.
- **Agent owners keep edit and delete.** Today the human owner of an
agent can edit (kind:40003) and delete (kind:9005) that agent's messages
without being a member. This PR keeps that existing behavior in announce
channels too, and documents and tests it. It does not let the owner
post.
- **Changing the setting changes no roles.** Existing members can still
write after a change to `guest`. Existing guests stay read-only after a
change back to `member`.

A refused write gets `restricted: only members can post in this
channel`.

## Details
- **One write rule.** The relay's channel write check decides from the
actor's role and the channel's `join_role`. Some event types skip that
check and run their own: message edit, deleting your own message
(kind:9005), topic and purpose (kind:9002), add-member (kind:9000),
workflow messages and joining a huddle. Each of these now uses the same
rule. Membership changes (add, remove, leave) do not need write access,
so a guest can always leave. If the relay finds a stored `join_role`
value it does not know, it treats it as `guest`, so an unknown value can
never give more access.
- **Admission is decided in the database transaction.** The membership
write (`put_member`) makes the whole admission decision inside its
transaction, after it takes the channel's membership lock: `join_role`
for a missing role tag, the self-join ceiling, guests cannot add people,
who may grant admin or owner, and role changes
(`MemberRole::may_change_role`). The relay's request check uses the same
rules, but the database is the authority, so a write that skips the
request check cannot get around them. A change to `visibility` or
`join_role` takes the same lock, so an add and a setting change cannot
interleave.
- **No creator exception.** `put_member` used to give owner to a
channel's creator who added themselves to a private channel without an
active membership. A removed creator could use that: their join
(kind:9021) passes the open-channel check, the channel becomes private
before the join takes the membership lock, and the join restored them as
owner. Channel creation already makes the creator owner in the same
transaction, so the exception is removed. A removed creator is now
admitted like anyone else.
- **Huddles.** Joining a huddle needs write access in the huddle channel
**and** in its parent channel. The relay checks both before the join.
When it commits the join, it applies the same rule again while it holds
both channels' membership locks: a member needs a role that can post,
and a non-member needs an open channel whose `join_role` is `member`. A
guest in either channel cannot join. A join is also refused when the
joiner loses membership or the channel's `join_role` changes before the
commit.
- **One lock order.** Each writer that takes more than one of a
channel's locks takes them in this order: membership lock, TTL lock,
channel row. Settings changes, roster publication, TTL refresh and
huddle joins all use this order. Before this change, a `join_role`
change on an ephemeral channel at the same time as a roster publication
could deadlock.
- **Workflows.** Saving a workflow (kind:30620) skips the generic write
check, so it now checks the sender's role itself and needs a writing
role before anything is stored. Every path that starts a workflow run,
including the manual trigger (kind:46020), needs the workflow's owner to
hold a writing role now (and an elevated role for an elevated workflow).
So a workflow saved while its owner was a member stops running after the
owner is made a guest.
- **Channel names are checked before storage.** kind:9002 and kind:9007
refuse a name longer than the `channels.name` column (255 characters)
before the event is stored. Before this, the relay accepted the event,
then the name update failed, and the rest of the update (for example
`join_role`) was silently skipped. This PR only adds this check. Storing
the event and applying the update in one transaction is a larger change,
and it is not in this PR.
- **Changing the setting.** Owners and admins send a channel-metadata
update (kind:9002) with `["join_role", "guest"]` or `["join_role",
"member"]`. Buzz applies these updates as partial updates; a missing tag
means "no change". The relay posts a `join_role_changed` system message
in the channel.
- **What clients see.** The relay signs a channel description event
(kind:39000) that clients read. One shared builder now writes it for
both the relay and the `buzz-admin` backfill, which had a copy that had
drifted from the relay's. It always publishes an explicit `["join_role",
…]` tag, plus the standard NIP-29 group access flags:

| `visibility` | `join_role` | `public` / `private` | `restricted` |
`closed` |
  | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
  | open | `member` | public | | |
  | open | `guest` | public | ✓ | |
  | private | either | private | ✓ | ✓ |

This also fixes an old bug: `closed` ("join requests are ignored") was
published for every channel, even open channels that accept joins.
- **CLI and SDK.** `buzz channels update --join-role guest|member`.
`buzz_sdk::build_update_channel` takes a new `join_role` argument and
always writes it as an explicit tag.
- **Docs.** `NOSTR.md` has an "Announce channels" section with the role
table and the flag table.
- **Tests.** Relay end-to-end tests, run in the CI relay E2E step:
- `test_nip29_announce_channel_wire`: who can set `join_role`, the
kind:39000 flags, joining as a guest, refused guest and non-member
posts, reactions and adds, member posts, a member making a guest a
member who then posts, changing the setting back without changing roles,
and leaving.
- `test_nip29_member_raises_guest_agent`: a member who is not the
agent's owner can make a guest agent a member.
- `test_nip29_announce_channel_wire_workflow_send_needs_write_role`: a
guest's workflow message is refused; a member's is accepted.
- `test_nip29_departure_wire_archived_channel_allows_self_leave`: guests
and members can leave an archived channel.
- `test_private_channel_any_member_can_invite` now expects a
private-channel guest to be refused when it adds someone (it used to
expect success).
- `test_nip29_announce_channel_wire_workflow_commands_need_write_role`:
saving and triggering a workflow, by a member and by a guest, in
announce and normal channels; a guest cannot run a workflow saved while
it was a member.
-
`test_nip29_announce_channel_wire_overlong_name_is_refused_before_storage`:
a kind:9002 with an overlong name and `join_role` is refused, and
kind:39000 still shows the old settings.
- `test_nip29_announce_channel_wire_agent_owner_exception`: an agent's
owner, as a guest and as a non-member, can edit and delete the agent's
messages, while ordinary guests are still refused.
- `test_nip29_guest_is_read_only_in_normal_channel`: a guest in an
ordinary channel cannot write, and joining an ordinary channel still
gives `member`.

Unit tables cover the self-join rule for each `join_role`, and every
actor, current role and requested role for the role-change rule.
Database tests check the admission rules in `put_member`
(`put_member_enforces_announce_admission`), that an add which waits on
an uncommitted change to `guest` is decided on the new setting
(`put_member_waits_for_a_concurrent_join_role_change`), and that a
member can make a guest a member but not an admin. Unit tests cover the
name limit and the workflow owner rule
(`owner_authority_denies_roles_that_cannot_write`). A relay test covers
huddle joins with different roles in the huddle and its parent, and a
commit after a demotion, a `join_role` change or a lost membership
(`huddle_join_needs_a_write_role_in_the_huddle_and_its_parent`).
Lock-order tests:
`join_role_change_waits_for_a_roster_publication_on_an_ephemeral_channel`
reproduced a real deadlock (`40P01`) against the old order.
`f2d_join_lock_order_serializes_membership_and_settings_writers` checks
that membership and settings writers wait for a join and then succeed.
`removed_creator_cannot_rejoin_a_private_channel` checks that
`put_member` refuses a removed creator on a private channel, and
`removed_creator_join_racing_a_private_switch_is_refused` holds the
membership lock so a removed creator's kind:9021 passes the open-channel
check, then makes the channel private before the join continues. Each
new test was run against the old code and failed.

## Rollout
1. **Before the deploy, count guest rows** (`SELECT count(*) FROM
channel_members WHERE role = 'guest' AND removed_at IS NULL`). We expect
none. Any guest that exists loses the ability to post, change the topic
and add people when this ships. If some exist, decide first whether to
make them members.
2. Deploy. Every channel stays `join_role = member`, so nothing else
changes.
3. **Do not set any channel to `join_role = guest` until no old relay is
running.** Old relays ignore the column, so they would let guests and
non-members write in that channel.
4. Rerun the `buzz-admin` channel reconcile so open channels drop the
wrong `closed` flag.

## Migration and rollback
- Migration `0067` adds `channels.join_role TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT
'member'` with a CHECK constraint. Postgres stores a constant default in
table metadata, so existing rows are not rewritten and there is no
backfill. The relay runs the migration at startup.
- Existing channels keep the old `closed` flag until their next change,
or until the reconcile in Rollout step 4.
- **Before rolling back the relay**, set every announce channel back to
`join_role = member`. An older relay ignores the column and does not
stop guests from writing, so those channels would accept posts from
their guests and give `member` to new joiners again.

## Not in this PR
Client UI: a Follow button, hiding the composer for guests, and an admin
toggle. Clients that ignore the new tag keep working. A guest who tries
to post sees the `restricted` error.

## Stack
1. #8143 (this PR): announce channels
2. #8494: store the bot role only for keys with a recorded agent owner

---------

Signed-off-by: Logan Johnson <loganj@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry <627498bd4bd1f281a16431e3c6cce3b5c25b6692798c78672298aefbf2f8f8b5@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-21 16:01:11 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
039e1c8d59 feat(relay): write the NIP-43 member list in the membership transaction (#8482)
## Summary

The relay-signed NIP-43 member list (kind:13534) was published after
each membership change had already committed. If that publish failed, or
if a change never republished at all (startup `bootstrap_owner`), the
list stayed wrong until the background reconcile sweep found and fixed
it. #8467 moved that sweep off the startup path. This PR removes the
reason the sweep exists.

Now every `buzz-db` function that changes `relay_members` writes the new
list **in the same transaction**, as its last statement before commit:
- It takes the per-community list lock last, reads the members, signs
the list, retires the old one and inserts the new one.
- If the list write fails, the membership change rolls back and the
caller gets an error.
- A call that changes nothing (already a member, role mismatch, host
exists, limit reached) writes no list.

The functions return `MembershipWrite<T> { outcome, snapshot }`. Callers
push `snapshot` to live subscribers after commit. That push is the only
thing left outside the transaction; if it fails, live clients see the
change on their next fetch, and the stored list is already correct.

Write paths covered (RPR #2, every write path): `add_relay_member`,
`claim_relay_membership`, `claim_relay_invite`, `remove_relay_member`,
`remove_relay_member_if_role`, `update_relay_member_role`,
`bootstrap_owner` / `provision_owner`, `transfer_ownership`,
`backfill_from_allowlist`, and the owner insert in
`create_community_with_owner[_and_nip_fi_issuers]`. Community deletion
removes the members together with the community, so it writes no list.

The relay keypair is passed in explicitly instead of being stored on
`Db`, so the compiler finds every caller.

### Behavior changes

- **Open relays get an accurate list too.** Provisioning and ownership
transfer used to publish only when `require_relay_membership` was on.
The write is now unconditional.
- **Same-second changes can't reuse an id.** The list's `created_at` is
one second past the newest earlier list for that community, including
retired ones, or the current time if that is later. Before, adding and
then removing a member in the same second could produce an event with
the same id as an earlier list. The insert then failed, and the stale
list stayed live. A burst of changes can push `created_at` ahead of the
clock by up to one second per change; it returns to the clock once the
burst ends.
- **`buzz-admin add-member` / `remove-member`** no longer build their
own list (`publish_membership_list_with_bump` is deleted). They push the
list the database wrote. Concurrent CLI runs now serialize on the
database lock rather than depending on `run.sh` running one at a time.
- **Owner mutations lock the community row `FOR NO KEY UPDATE`.**
`transfer_ownership` and `bootstrap_owner` used `FOR UPDATE`. The list
insert takes `FOR KEY SHARE` on that row through `events.community_id`'s
foreign key, so a repair holding the list lock, or a removal or role
update holding a member row, deadlocked with a concurrent owner change.
`FOR NO KEY UPDATE` still conflicts with archive, unarchive and deletion
admission, so the lifecycle ordering is unchanged.
- **Startup delivers its list to other replicas.** When backfill or
`bootstrap_owner` changes members at startup, the relay fans the newest
list out through pub/sub once its state is ready, so clients connected
to other replicas during a rolling deploy see an owner rotation without
a refetch.
- **New `buzz-admin republish-members`.** Rewrites the community's list
from the stored members in one community-write transaction and pushes it
live. This replaces the sweep as the repair for a list that is missing
or stale: a `relay_members` change made directly in SQL, a restore, or a
deployment that turns on `BUZZ_REQUIRE_RELAY_MEMBERSHIP` after running
without it.

## Rollout

Nothing rewrites a list automatically once the sweep is gone. A
community whose list drifted before this deploys stays wrong until its
next membership change or until an operator runs `buzz-admin
republish-members`. Either deploy #8467 and let its sweep complete one
pass first, or run `republish-members` for each community after this
deploys. The command repairs only the community that `RELAY_URL` maps
to, so on a relay hosting many communities, run it once per community
host.

## What got simpler

Deleted:
- `reconcile_nip43_membership_snapshots`,
`spawn_nip43_membership_reconciler`, its leader lock key and #8467's
standby retry
- the three `nip43_membership_snapshot_needs_reconciliation*` drift
reads (one already deprecated)
- `publish_nip43_membership_list` / `publish_nip43_membership_locked`,
the separate after-commit republish at every call site, and
`buzz-admin`'s duplicate publisher
- the reconcile metrics `buzz_nip43_membership_reconciliations_total`
and `buzz_nip43_membership_reconciliation_failures_total`
- the after-commit publish metrics
`buzz_nip43_membership_publications_total` and
`buzz_nip43_membership_publication_seconds`, and the
`publish_nip43_membership_locked` transaction metric label. A failed
list write is now a failed membership write and shows up in the caller's
existing error handling and the transaction metrics of its write path.
- the `BUZZ_NIP43_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECS` setting

There is now one way the list gets written, and it can't disagree with
`relay_members` after commit.

**Unused deploy config (outside this repo):** hosted deployments that
set `BUZZ_NIP43_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECS` can drop it. It is now ignored.
Dashboards or alerts on the four deleted metrics will stop receiving
data.

## Testing

New Postgres tests (`buzz-db`):
- `relay_members::every_membership_write_commits_its_list`: for each
write path, the returned list is the single live kind:13534 and names
exactly the committed members. No-op calls return no list and leave the
live list alone.
- `relay_members::a_failed_list_write_rolls_back_the_membership_change`:
holds the list lock, waits for the join to block on it, cancels that
statement, and checks that the member was not added and the previous
list is still live.
- `relay_members::concurrent_joins_all_land_in_the_list`: 8 concurrent
joins; the final list names all 8.
-
`relay_members::same_second_return_to_an_earlier_membership_writes_a_new_list`:
add, remove, add, remove within a second; every list is newer than the
last and no id repeats.
- `relay_members::owner_transfer_and_list_repair_both_commit` and
`relay_members::owner_transfer_and_member_removal_both_commit`: hold a
repair (list lock) or removal (member row) open, wait until a transfer
blocks behind it, then finish it. Both transactions commit; with `FOR
UPDATE` back in place, one of them fails.
- `community::create_community_with_owner_is_atomic_and_create_only` and
`relay_invite::bounded_claim_exhausts_and_existing_member_retry_does_not_consume`
now also check the list.

Each new test was checked to fail against a mutation of the new code
that brings back the old behavior (details in the thread).

Stacked on #8467. Merge order: #8467, then #8468, then this.

---------

Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-20 11:39:13 -04:00
Wes
6e6173acd5 test(buzz-db): fix two PostgreSQL-lane timing flakes (#8472)
## Summary

Two timing flakes in the PostgreSQL lane, one fix each.

### Deletion lock order

`abort_serializes_before_fence_without_deadlock` failed on main ([run
39330176879](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/39330176879)):
`post-lock lease verification rejects aborted request: 1`.

The test slept 50ms and assumed `abort` had queued on the community
advisory lock by then. On a slow runner, `fence` queued first, won the
lock, and succeeded.

The test now waits until `pg_locks` shows each contender waiting on that
community's lock, `abort` first and then `fence`. Postgres grants queued
advisory locks in arrival order, so `abort` always wins. The sleeps and
their timing guess are gone.

### Saturated-reader fixture

`routed_fallback_spends_one_acquire_budget_when_aurora_cache_is_cold`
failed this PR's first run ([run
39335038111](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/39335038111)):
`establish the reader's sole connection: PoolTimedOut`. Setup opens the
reader's only connection through the production lazy pool, which has a
150ms acquire timeout. On a loaded runner that first connect took
longer, so the test failed before reaching the budget it measures. Setup
now retries on `PoolTimedOut` within 5s. The pool and its 150ms budget
are unchanged for the routed read under test.

Test-only. Production code is unchanged.

## Validation

- Deletion test against an isolated local Postgres 17 database: 40/40
passes. Saturated-reader test: 15/15.
- `cargo fmt --check`, `cargo clippy -p buzz-db --tests -D warnings`,
pre-push Rust unit tests: pass.
- Three other `store::deletion::postgres_tests` fail locally on
unmodified `main` as well (local environment). CI's PostgreSQL lane is
the authoritative check for them.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

---------

Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <32a2e2c9d428ee08902cab75d956da2c1d235a22d4766b0dd4138bf6e2e5db1d@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 23:40:43 +00:00
Will Pfleger
6286a54321 feat(relay): store per-community NIP-FI issuer bindings (#8372)
Stack: this PR → #8377 → #8399 → #8401

bb-public creates communities all the time, so a hand-edited
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_COMMUNITIES` map can't list them. This PR stores an
explicit NIP-FI issuer allowlist for each community in the database and
writes it when the community is created. Login checks don't read the
table yet; that comes in #8377 together with the database-backed
resolver. Operator steps are in
[`docs/operator-nip-fi-bindings.md`](docs/operator-nip-fi-bindings.md).

**Storage.** Migration `0066_community_nip_fi_issuers` adds
`community_nip_fi_issuers (community_id, issuer, created_at)`, with
primary key `(community_id, issuer)` and the community write fence
attached. The assertion audience is `https://<communities.host>`, so the
table has no `aud` column. Zero rows means no binding. The table is
included in whole-community deletion and purge.

**One bindable rule.** `BUZZ_NIP_FI_PROVISION_BINDING` (`{"host_suffix":
..., "authorized_issuers": [...]}`) is parsed in `buzz-auth` with
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_ISSUERS`, whatever `BUZZ_NIP_FI_MODE` is set to, and both
the relay and `buzz-admin` use the same parser. Each authorized issuer
must be a configured issuer (1 to 2048 bytes), and the suffix must not
cover any host declared in `BUZZ_NIP_FI_COMMUNITIES`; an unreadable
declaration refuses startup even in mode `off`.
`ProvisionBindingPolicy::is_bindable(host)` is true for a host exactly
one label under the suffix that is not reserved. It decides
creation-time binding, explicit `bind`, and what the lookup route
reports.

**Binding on creation.** Rows are written in the same transaction as the
community insert on all three creation paths (`POST
/operator/communities` `create_only`, its legacy convergence branch, and
startup bootstrap), and only when the call actually created the
community, so existing rows are never rewritten.

**Reserved host.** A host whose `https://<host>` equals a configured
`command_audiences` value never holds a binding. Operator provisioning
of it is rejected with a 400 and the `reserved_host` error code,
bootstrap creates it unbound, and the availability route reports it
unavailable with an error code. `main.rs` calls
`verify_reserved_hosts_unbound` at startup; if a reserved host has rows
the relay refuses to start and names the fix (`buzz-admin nip-fi unbind
--host <h> --issuer <i>`, or revert the command audience). A database
failure during that check is a separate `Check` error.

**Operator commands.**
- `buzz-admin nip-fi backfill` pages unbound communities by host (1000
per page) and binds each page with one `INSERT ... SELECT` limited to
active communities. It skips communities being deleted, always prints
`{rows_bound, unbound, unbound_hosts, truncated}`, and exits non-zero
while any bindable community is still unbound. Archived communities are
bound on purpose. Both bind paths take the shared deletion lock and then
lock the community row (`FOR NO KEY UPDATE`, in id order for a batch),
the same order deletion uses, and the backfill insert also requires the
community to still have no binding, so an operator `bind` that lands
after the backfill listed a community wins and the default issuer is not
added beside it.
- `buzz-admin nip-fi bind --host --issuer` refuses a reserved host, a
host outside the suffix, or an unconfigured issuer.
- `buzz-admin nip-fi unbind --host --issuer` refuses to remove a
community's last issuer (archive or delete the community instead), with
one exception: when a valid provisioning policy shows that backfill
can't bind the host (it's reserved, or outside the suffix), the last
issuer can be removed. That is the reserved-host recovery path in the
runbook. A missing or malformed policy doesn't block `unbind`; it just
means the exception never applies.

**Lookup route.** `GET /operator/communities/nip-fi-binding?host=`
(NIP-98, `RELAY_OPERATOR_PUBKEYS`) reads the database and returns
`{host, active, issuers[]}`. `host` is the stored host. It returns 404
for an unknown host, 200 with `active:false` for an archived or
quiescing community, and `issuers:[]` when no provisioning policy is
set. It lists only issuers that are configured and on a bindable host.
kgoose depends on this contract; it is also documented in the runbook.

**NIP-FA.** The `relay_url` bullet now also says: "An adapter MAY obtain
its exact relay list from a configured, authenticated source; it MUST
still compare `relay_url` exactly."

**Deployment dependency.** The kgoose config side is already handled by
[cash-server#137671](https://github.com/squareup/cash-server/pull/137671).
In public-community mode it requires the command audience not to be a
community audience.

---------

Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-17 13:13:49 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
60de1db0b8 fix(db): admit fleet sweeps per tenant instead of in-SQL fence predicate (#8318)
## What

Removes every production call to the SQL fence predicate
`community_write_allowed()` from application SQL, so no application
mutation depends on the boolean predicate anymore. This is one
prerequisite for BUZZ-315 part B; #8322 (tolerating absent fence
objects) is a separate one. The triggers and SQL functions stay in this
PR because mixed-version pods still depend on them.

The predicate isn't inlined. It's a VOLATILE plpgsql function that takes
the deletion lock and *then* reads lifecycle state on a fresh snapshot,
and an inline expression would read state from the statement's start
snapshot. A separate earlier check would race deletion. So each sweep
now:

1. reads its candidate community IDs with a plain read, bounded the same
way the original statement was,
2. opens one `AdmittedTx` per community
(`begin_community_sweep_transaction`, a thin wrapper over
`begin_community_write_transaction` that turns an admission refusal into
"skip this tenant"; the four periodic sweeps go through
`sweep_admitted_communities`, which also owns their error handling),
3. runs the original mutation scoped to `community_id = $1` and commits.

| Site | Change |
| --- | --- |
| `runtime/push_enqueue.rs` | Deleted the redundant predicate. This
transaction already calls `guard_transaction`. |
| `store/relay_invite.rs` `reap_expired_relay_invites` | Keeps the
global expiry order and the 1,000-row ceiling. Candidates are
pre-filtered to active tenants so fenced invites can't fill the batch.
Admission is still what authorizes the write. |
| `store/workflow.rs` `prune_scheduled_workflow_fires_before` | Prunes
per admitted community and sums the row counts. |
| `store/channel.rs` `reap_expired_ephemeral_channels` | Archives per
admitted community and returns the committed rows, so the relay still
runs their system and discovery follow-ups. The candidate read has no
lifecycle pre-filter (it has no `LIMIT`, so admission alone decides). |
| `store/event.rs` `backfill_d_tags` | Backfills per admitted community
at startup. |
| `store/push.rs` `claim_due_match_batch_with_loader` | Picks the
earliest due active community, admits it, and claims under the same `FOR
UPDATE OF q SKIP LOCKED` and batch limit. It skips at most 16 tenants
that fence between the read and admission. |
| `store/push.rs` `reap_exhausted_matches` | Reaps per admitted
community. |

**Tenant failures.** The four periodic sweeps (invite reap, workflow
fire prune, channel reap, exhausted match reap) log a warning and
continue when one tenant fails. That tenant's rows are left unmodified
and stay eligible, so the next tick retries them. A tenant error doesn't
abort processing of the other tenants already in the selected candidate
page. Invite cleanup keeps its oldest-first 1,000-row selection, so if
one tenant owns that entire page and its delete keeps failing, tenants
outside the page wait. No persistent tenant-local failure for that
delete is known in the current schema, and base aborted the whole page
on any error. The returned count or rows cover the tenants that
committed. Claim, enqueue and the startup backfill still return the
error to the caller.

**Database outages.** A connection-level error (pool acquire timeout,
closed pool, socket I/O; `DbError::is_connection_unavailable`) isn't
tenant-local, so it stops the periodic sweep at that tenant instead of
moving on. Without this, an outage that began after the candidate read
cost one writer acquire timeout and one warning per remaining tenant,
and invite cleanup runs inside the usage-metrics leader tick. Rows
already committed are still returned, so reaped channels keep their
follow-ups. Remaining tenants retry next tick.

**Known limit (pre-existing, tracked separately):**
- *Claim at a locked head.* `claim_due_match_batch_with_loader` returns
`None` once an admitted tenant claims zero rows. If every due row in the
oldest active tenant is row-locked, younger tenants aren't tried on that
call. Base behaved the same way. This PR doesn't change it.

## Tests

All tests use a one-session fixture (`test_support::admission_fixture`)
with `session_replication_role = replica`, so the trigger backstop is
off and only application admission protects the fenced tenants. The
fixture shadows `community_write_allowed` with a function that raises,
in a per-call `admission_test_<uuid>` schema.

- One test per site: a quiescing tenant's rows are untouched while an
active tenant in the same sweep still progresses.
- Race tests for invite reap, channel reap and claim. These are the
sites where the candidate read already filters out fenced tenants. Each
test holds the tenant's deletion lock, waits until the sweep is blocked
in admission, fences the tenant in that transaction, and asserts its
rows are untouched. The claim test also asserts that a second active
tenant is claimed in the same call.
- `channel_reap_returns_committed_rows_after_earlier_tenant_error` and
`periodic_reaps_continue_after_tenant_error_and_retry_retained_rows`
inject a per-tenant failure. They check that later tenants commit, that
the failed tenant's rows are retained, and that the next call processes
them.
- `fleet_sweep_stops_at_first_unavailable_connection` runs the sweep
helper against a closed pool with three candidates and asserts only the
first is attempted.
`fleet_sweep_returns_committed_results_when_database_drops_mid_page`
(PostgreSQL) commits the first tenant, closes the pool, and asserts the
first tenant's result is returned and the sweep stops at the second of
three candidates.
`connection_unavailable_covers_only_pool_and_io_failures` pins the
classification; the per-tenant failure tests above confirm a
database-raised error still continues.

Falsification, each with the tests failing as expected:

| Mutation | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Original SQL restored at invite sweep, push claim, d-tag backfill |
0/3 pass (`legacy SQL fence predicate called`) |
| `guard_community_write` returns `Ok(())` after taking the lock | race
tests + channel reap test 0/4 pass |
| Per-tenant errors abort the sweep again | 0/2 pass |
| Sweep helper `continue`s instead of stopping on a connection-level
error | `fleet_sweep_stops_at_first_unavailable_connection` and
`fleet_sweep_returns_committed_results_when_database_drops_mid_page`
fail |
| Sweep helper drops already-committed results when it stops (`return
Vec::new()`) |
`fleet_sweep_returns_committed_results_when_database_drops_mid_page`
fails |
| Sweep helper removed from the source-policy chokepoint check |
`serving_table_writes_expose_syntactic_chokepoint_or_guarded_tx_routes`
fails |

The PostgreSQL tests are under `postgres_tests` modules with `#[ignore =
"requires Postgres"]`, which puts them in the `.config/nextest.toml`
PostgreSQL filter. CI evidence is under Verification.

## Verification

CI at head `5d37fbda` ([run
38925996275](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38925996275)) is
green. The PostgreSQL job ([job
117062895683](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38925996275/job/117062895683))
passed 1017/1017. That includes named PASS lines for all 30
`admission_postgres_tests`,
`fleet_sweep_returns_committed_results_when_database_drops_mid_page`,
and both writer-pool tests listed below. Unit Tests ([job
117058136482](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38925996275/job/117058136482))
has PASS lines for
`connection_unavailable_covers_only_pool_and_io_failures` and
`fleet_sweep_stops_at_first_unavailable_connection`.

Local gates ran on a Linux cloud workstation against private PostgreSQL
16 and Redis. The tree was `735170df`, which is this head rebased on
`main` `c0ab789`, so the gates built the merge result.

| Gate | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `cargo fmt --all -- --check` | pass |
| `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings` | pass |
| `cargo nextest run -p buzz-db --lib --tests` | 185 passed |
| `scripts/test-postgres-test-discovery.sh` | pass |
| PostgreSQL lane for buzz-db (excluding the two writer-pool tests
below) | 530 passed |
| PostgreSQL lanes for buzz-admin, buzz-audit, buzz-deletion,
buzz-push-gateway, buzz-search, buzz-workflow | all pass |
| PostgreSQL lane for buzz-relay | 413/426. The 13
`group_state_postgres_tests` fail with `PoolTimedOut` on unmodified
`main` `c0ab789` too (see below) |
| The three mutations in the falsification table above (`continue` ×2,
`return Vec::new()`) | each fails its target test |

These failures happen only on the workstation, and each one passes in
CI's PostgreSQL job at this head:
- `writer_pool_metrics_stop_after_session_timeout_setup_failure` stalls.
It's an unchanged writer-pool configuration test, and it stalled the
same way at earlier heads.
- The 13 relay `group_state_postgres_tests` fail at the same point,
`ensure community: Sqlx(PoolTimedOut)`, on unmodified `main` `c0ab789`.
This PR doesn't touch `buzz-relay`.

## What got simpler

- No application mutation calls the boolean predicate
`community_write_allowed()` anymore. Dropping the fence objects still
has other dependencies: serving-write lease acquisition calls
`assert_community_write_allowed()` (`store/deletion.rs:3068`), catalog
validation requires both functions (`store/deletion.rs:1195-1198`), and
the triggers and compatibility SQL still use them. Those belong to #8322
and part B, not this PR.
- The claim's `target` CTE is gone, and every sweep uses the same
admission-and-skip helper.
- The four periodic sweeps share one loop (`sweep_admitted_communities`)
for admission, skip, continue-on-tenant-error and stop-on-outage,
instead of four copies of it.
- The source policy treats that helper as a tenant-local chokepoint, so
`backfill_d_tags` no longer needs a reviewed exception.
- The per-tenant loops add code, because each community now gets its own
admitted transaction.

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Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-16 15:46:37 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
2745a419a8 buzz-db: tolerate absent universal write-fence objects (expand) (#8322)
## What

This is the expand step for retiring the 32 universal
`community_write_fence_*` triggers and their SQL functions (BUZZ-315).
Relay pods auto-migrate at boot (`BUZZ_AUTO_MIGRATE`). The drop
migration therefore runs while the previous release is still serving,
and that release must not depend on the objects it drops. Today the app
depends on them in four places, and this PR removes all four from its
own code paths. Seven in-SQL `community_write_allowed` predicates in
fleet sweeps and push (`push_enqueue.rs`, `channel.rs`, `event.rs`,
`push.rs`, `relay_invite.rs`, `workflow.rs`) are #8318's scope. The
release is independent of the fence functions only with both this PR and
#8318. **It changes no schema.** The objects stay and keep working until
the follow-up drop PR.

| Old dependency | Now |
|---|---|
| Startup and readiness (`validate_serving_catalog_on`) require
`community_write_allowed`, `assert_community_write_allowed`,
`enforce_community_write_fence` and all 32 triggers | No longer
required. Still required: the tenant tables,
`community_deletion_lock_key` and the enabled community tombstone
trigger. |
| Serving-lease admission runs `SELECT
assert_community_write_allowed($1)` | Uses `guard_community_write`, the
same shared lock and state check as ordinary serving writes, in the same
transaction as the lease `INSERT`. Fenced or missing communities still
map to `AccessDenied`. |
| Live scoped-table discovery calls
`community_write_fence_excluded_table()` | Uses a Rust
`EXCLUDED_SCOPED_TABLES` list. A unit test pins it equal to the SQL list
while both exist. |
| The deletion executor compares the live `fenced_tables` against the
frozen inventory | Only tenant-table equality is compared. Inventories
**still record** live fences, so an older executor that validates an
inventory frozen by this release still matches. The digest still covers
the full frozen manifest. |

`lock_community_deletion_shared` now refuses transactions that are not
READ COMMITTED, so every lock-then-read admission gets the check:
`guard_community_write`, serving-lease finalization
(`guard_transaction_with_serving_lease`), lease renewal/verification,
owner preparation and owner-mutation admission. The old SQL assertion
did this check for the lease path, and the trigger backed up the rest.
The isolation level comes back from the existing
`pg_advisory_xact_lock_shared` statement, so the hot path makes no extra
round trip. The refusal comes before any lifecycle-state read.

## Mixed versions

| Combination | Why it is safe |
|---|---|
| Previous release, this DB | No schema change, so all old checks still
see the 32 fences. |
| This release, DB with fence objects | Extra objects are tolerated, and
the trigger backstop still applies. |
| This release **plus #8318**, DB without fence objects | Serving,
readiness, lease admission and deletion proven by
`migration_schema_fence_objects_are_optional_for_serving_and_deletion`,
which drops them inline. Without #8318, serving and deletion still work,
but the push matcher, exhausted-job reaper, invite retention, ephemeral
reaper and startup d_tag backfill fail with `42883
community_write_allowed(uuid) does not exist` (seen in deploy-stack
E2E). |
| Older executor, inventory frozen by this release | `fenced_tables` is
still populated from the live catalog (32). |

This PR does not depend on #8318 to merge and can ship alongside it, but
it is not drop-safe alone. The drop PR (#8323) needs #8219, #8318 and
this PR deployed on every pod, and every rollback image after the drop
must include #8318.

## Tests

-
`store::deletion::postgres_tests::migration_schema_fence_objects_are_optional_for_serving_and_deletion`
migrates to 0060. It then runs the following with the fence objects
present, then again after dropping them inline:
  - serving startup
  - readiness
  - the deletion catalog check
  - `inventory_schema`
  - lease acquire/release
- `AccessDenied` for quiescing, fenced, tombstoned and missing
communities
-
`store::deletion::postgres_tests::deletion_lock_admission_rejects_pinned_snapshot_isolation`
checks that REPEATABLE READ and SERIALIZABLE are refused by both
`guard_community_write` and `guard_transaction_with_serving_lease`. The
lease case uses a never-acquired lease, so if the isolation check is
skipped it fails as stale instead.
- `buzz-deletion`
`postgres_tests::approved_legacy_fence_inventory_accepts_current_catalog`
checks that a legacy digest with 32 fences validates against a live
catalog with none, and that an unknown tenant table is still rejected.
-
`store::deletion::tests::scoped_table_exclusions_match_sql_during_transition`
checks exclusion-list parity.
-
`store::deletion::postgres_tests::serving_lease_acquire_waits_for_fence_lock_then_refuses`
holds the exclusive deletion lock and checks that lease acquisition
stays pending. It then commits `fenced` and requires `AccessDenied` with
no lease row persisted. Removing the lease path's
`guard_community_write` call fails this test, while the other four
lease/admission tests above still pass.
- `buzz-deletion`
`serving_guard_heartbeats_long_operation_through_quiescing` now requires
`AccessDenied` for a lease acquired during quiescing, rather than any
error.

Each test was confirmed to fail when its fix is removed (rc 100, 0/1):
the isolation refusal, the three validators restored to the base
version, the fence-list comparison restored, and one name dropped from
the Rust list.

## What got simpler

The lease path loses its special SQL assertion and its error-code
translation and reuses the ordinary app guard. The serving and deletion
catalog checks each lose one requirement. No new abstraction. The
`fenced_tables` reader stays only for mixed-version executors; the drop
PR deletes it.

**Identified debt (pre-existing, outside this diff):**
`runtime::postgres_tests::writer_pool_rejects_non_read_committed_database_default`
hangs on clean `177551dda` too.

## Verification (Blox, tree identical to this commit)

| Gate | Result |
|---|---|
| `cargo fmt --all -- --check` | pass |
| `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings` | pass |
| `cargo nextest run -p buzz-db --lib` | 167/167 |
| `scripts/test-postgres-test-discovery.sh` | pass |
| `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p` buzz-admin / audit / deletion /
push-gateway / relay / search / workflow | all rc 0 (4, 7, 12, 11, 402,
20, 2) |
| `scripts/postgres-test-run.sh -p buzz-db` | 510 pass, 1 fail: the
pre-existing hang above, interrupted |
| Round 2 (this head): `-p buzz-db` / `-p buzz-deletion` | 511 pass +
the same pre-existing hang interrupted / 12/12 |

The new PG tests are selected by the `postgres-ci` filter
`(test(/postgres_tests::/) or binary(/^postgres_/)) and not
test(/(^|::)external_infra[^:]*::/)`.

buzz-review-completed

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Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-16 15:28:54 -04:00
Luke Tornquist
c0ab789499 feat(buzz-db): retire the channel-TTL trigger (#8210)
## Summary

This drops the channel-TTL event trigger. The application already
refreshes ephemeral-channel deadlines in the event transaction
(`event_follow_up::refresh_channel_ttls`, from #8135), so the trigger
only repeats that work.

This PR originally retired both follow-up triggers. #8352 has since
retired the push-match trigger in migration 0063, so after the rebase
this PR covers only the TTL half.

Migration `0065_retire_channel_ttl_trigger.sql`:
- `SET LOCAL lock_timeout = '5s'` (the same bound as 0063)
- drops `events_refresh_channel_ttl` and
`refresh_channel_ttl_after_event_insert()`

Dropping the trigger on the partitioned parent also drops its partition
clones. Published migrations, including 0022 and 0024, stay
checksum-frozen.

The same objects are removed from `schema/` (`schema/functions/…`,
`schema/triggers/events.sql`, `schema/schema.sql`) and from the pgschema
reconcile script. After this, migrated and desired-state databases have
no event follow-up triggers.

Tests:
- `follow_up_retirement_tests.rs` (renamed from
`push_retirement_tests.rs`): the push-retirement upgrade test now stops
at 0063. A new test upgrades 0064 → 0065 and checks that the TTL trigger
is gone from the parent and every partition, that the function is gone,
and that the published checksums haven't changed.
- `event_follow_up_postgres_tests.rs`: the contract now has two arms.
`AppOnly` is the shipped schema, where both triggers are absent. `Dual`
reconstructs the historical overlap of both triggers. The `PushRetired`
arm (the push trigger dropped, the TTL trigger kept) was the shipped
state before this PR. Its tests are removed because `Dual` and `AppOnly`
together cover it.
- `embedded_migrator_contains_consolidated_initial_schema` pins the 0065
statements and checks that both objects are absent from the desired
schema.

**Deploy gate:** do not run 0065 against a database still served by a
relay older than #8135. After 0065, raw SQL writers no longer refresh
TTL deadlines. `docs/push-gateway-deployment.md` is updated to match.

### What got simpler

The trigger and the app no longer both refresh TTL deadlines; the app is
now the only producer. One plpgsql function and one trigger are gone
from both schema paths, and 8 per-partition drops are gone from the
reconcile script. The follow-up contract drops from three arms to two.

### Related issue

BUZZ-313 (Linear), part of the trigger-retirement work.

### Testing

Head is `4f7d0baf0`. Results below are at `678927730` unless noted.
`678927730..4f7d0baf0` changes only one test in
`crates/buzz-db/src/store/event.rs`, described in the first bullet.

- **Fixed test,
`permanent_channel_event_commits_do_not_lock_the_channel_row`**
(`4f7d0baf0`).
- **Why it changed:** after 0065, its raw-pool inserts no longer ran any
TTL refresh, so the test passed whatever `refresh_channel_ttls` did.
This was raised in review.
- **What it does now:** it inserts through the production `AdmittedTx`
path and keeps the barrier and the tuple-lock probe. It commits all N
transactions while an external transaction holds `FOR SHARE` on the
channel row. It also asserts that no
`buzz_db_channel_ttl_refresh_failures_total` is counted.
- **Mutation check:** with `SELECT … FOR UPDATE` injected into
`refresh_channel_ttl`, the new test fails (`must not wait on the channel
row`, timeout at 10s). The old test passes under the same mutation.
  - **Blox:** fmt and `buzz-db` clippy pass.

- **GitHub CI at `4f7d0baf0`:** every required check passes (56 pass, 0
fail). CI builds the merge ref with `main` `93ffc37cb`.
- **New and renamed tests, checked by name in the CI logs at
`4f7d0baf0`.** These pass in PostgreSQL Domain / PostgreSQL Tests
([117033725006](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38915998692/job/117033725006)):
  - `permanent_channel_event_commits_do_not_lock_the_channel_row`
-
`migration_schema_ttl_retirement_drops_every_partition_trigger_and_keeps_checksums`
-
`migration_schema_push_retirement_preserves_ttl_and_published_checksums`
-
`event_insert_ttl_refresh_handles_permanent_ephemeral_duplicate_and_activation_race`
- `{desired,migration_schema}_event_follow_up_contract_{dual,app_only}`
(four tests)

`embedded_migrator_contains_consolidated_initial_schema` passes in Rust
/ Unit Tests
([117024125423](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38915998692/job/117024125423)).
No `*_push_retired` test runs anywhere.
- **Blox gates at `678927730`** (private PG16 + Redis, on a workstation
shared with other sessions):
- `cargo fmt --check`, workspace `clippy -D warnings` and `buzz-db
--lib` all pass.
- The `buzz-admin`, `buzz-audit`, `buzz-deletion`, `buzz-push-gateway`,
`buzz-search` and `buzz-workflow` Postgres packages pass.
- `buzz-db`: 517 of 519 tests passed. The 2 that hung, both
`writer_pool_*` tests, were killed. `buzz-relay`: 413 of 426 passed. The
13 failures are covered below.
- **Uncontended reruns at `4f7d0baf0`** on a fresh, idle workstation
(PG16.15, `competing=0` for every arm):
- **`writer_pool_rejects_non_read_committed_database_default` predates
this PR.** It timed out 3/3 at head and 3/3 at `main` `93ffc37cb`, with
a 300s timeout per run.
- **`writer_pool_metrics_stop_after_session_timeout_setup_failure` also
predates this PR.** It timed out 2/3 at head and 2/3 at `main`, and
passed in the remaining run on each side.
- Both tests pass in CI. The gate accepts them as a named exception for
this PR, as a pre-existing hang on the PG16 test environment.
- **`buzz-db`:** 518 of 519 tests passed. The single failure is
`writer_pool_rejects_non_read_committed_database_default`, killed after
it hung (the exception above).
- **`buzz-relay`: still open.** 413 of 426 tests passed. The same 13
`handlers::group_state_postgres_tests` failed as on the shared box, each
panicking at once in its fixture's `ensure community` step with
`Sqlx(PoolTimedOut)`. Contention does not explain them. The fixture's
community setup is in `buzz-db`, which this PR changes. A head/`main`
comparison of the full `buzz-relay` package on the same idle box is
running to find out whether this predates the PR. All 13 pass in CI at
this head.
- **E2E (Gimli, Blox)** at `050e593af`. `050e593af..678927730` changes
only tests and docs; the migration, schema and runtime code are
byte-identical. Gimli's audited verdict: **EXERCISED AND WORKS**, for DB
and relay runtime only. Gimli ran it at `050e593af`; this head's runtime
is byte-identical but was not freshly executed.
- **Upgrade:** a real relay startup took the schema from 0064 to 0065.
That removed the TTL function and the trigger from the parent table and
from all 8 partitions. Checksums for migrations 1–64 are unchanged.
- **Lock-timeout rollback:** with a real lock held, the migration failed
with `55P03` at 5.0007s and the schema rolled back fully to 64. Once the
lock was released, a retry applied 65.
- **Fresh desired schema:** after pgschema plus reconcile, the retired
objects are absent.
- **Real signed kind-9 sends:** on both schema paths, these refreshed
ephemeral-channel deadlines to about +600s. Permanent channels stayed
NULL.
- **Raw SQL insert:** at 64 it refreshed the deadline. After 65 it left
the deadline unchanged, on both the upgraded and the fresh schema.
  - **Not covered:** native or device testing, and deploy.
- **Review:** Legolas found 0 P0 and 0 P1. His three optional P2s are
fixed in `678927730`.
- **No human app test:** this is a DB-only change.
- **Migration numbering:** #8237 and #8372 also add a `0065_*`
migration. Whichever PR merges second must renumber.

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Signed-off-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Elrond <28d6302a099e5225b02c4155ac4236e4912603df2ab08dbfc2f4fef08ce598c8@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-16 11:22:21 -04:00
Logan Johnson
f148c0f22c feat(relay): add profile search over name and display_name only (#8301)
🤖
> **Review as a pair with block/buzz-app#1084** (the app change that
uses this endpoint). Either can merge first: the app falls back to the
old search on relays without this endpoint.

## Summary
Searching for a person by name over the relay's general search returns
profiles that only *mention* the text somewhere else: in an avatar image
embedded as text, in the bio, or in the verification address. A search
for "wes" could fill every result page with profiles whose avatar data
happens to contain "Wes", and never return the person actually named
Wes.

This adds a relay endpoint, `POST /profiles/search`, that looks only at
a profile's **name** and **display name**. Every other profile field is
ignored.

**Matching and paging are the same as the relay's existing full-text
profile search** (NIP-50 search over kind:0 profiles with `search_mode:
"prefix"`). A client can switch to this endpoint without a visible
change in which people a query finds:
- Each query word must match a whole word of the name; the last word can
be a prefix. Words can be in any order, so "johnson wes" finds "Wes
Johnson". Case is ignored.
- Pages work the same way: up to 100 results per page, up to page 1000.
- The results are exactly the old results minus profiles that match only
outside their names.

The order is better for people search: exact name first, then names that
start with the query, then names with a later word that starts with it,
then other matches. Ties are ordered by `ts_rank_cd` over the two name
fields only (not the whole profile, as in NIP-50), then newest first,
then event id.

The response is a JSON array of the original signed profile events
(Nostr kind:0), so clients can verify them as they do today. The
buzz-app client change is block/buzz-app#1084.

## Details
- Request: `{"query": "wes", "limit": 20, "page": 1}`. `query` is 1–100
characters after trimming; `limit` is 1–100 (default 20); `page` is
1–1000 (default 1); unknown fields are rejected with 400.
- The search reuses the full-text search's own query builder
(`buzz-search`), so the word rule cannot drift from it. The existing
full-text index on events stays the access path; the name check runs
only on rows the index already matched. There is no new index. One small
migration (`0061`) adds the function `profile_name_fields()`; it reads
no table data, so it runs instantly.
- Only current profiles count: a replaced profile stops matching.
Profiles that are not a JSON object, or whose name fields are not
strings, never match. Content that PostgreSQL cannot read as `jsonb`
(for example a `\^@` escape or very deep nesting) also never matches,
and it cannot make the search fail for everyone else.
- The handler loads the matched events through the normal routed event
read and applies the same reader visibility check as other reads, in
search order.
- Access uses the same checks as the relay's GIF search endpoint: a
signed HTTP request (NIP-98), identity admission (NIP-FI), rate limit,
replay protection, and relay membership. That code moved out of
`gifs.rs` into one shared helper in `bridge.rs`; GIF behavior is
unchanged.
- The route is added to the existing protected-route and NIP-FI
shadow/enforce route tables. Docs: `docs/profile-search.md`.
- Two test-only lines get `sadscan:disable` comments, as other fixtures
already do: an existing public ES256 test key in `router.rs`, and the
local Postgres test URL in the search integration test.

### Related issue
None found.

### Testing
- Postgres test for the search query
(`profile_names_match_name_words_only`): only name fields match (avatar
data URL, `about`, `nip05`, `banner`, non-string names and non-object
content are excluded); words in any order and across both name fields;
whole words only for completed words; ranking order; pages split without
overlap or gaps; replaced profile; other community; `%` literal.
- Postgres end-to-end test through the router: an admitted member gets
only the name-matching signed event, and the returned event still
verifies.
- Request validation unit tests; existing GIF admission tests and router
route-table tests pass.
- Local end-to-end run with buzz-app#1084 against a relay built from
this head, with about 195 seeded profiles. For every query tried, the
endpoint's results were a subset of the full-text search's results; the
only profiles missing were avatar-only matches.

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Signed-off-by: Logan Johnson <loganj@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry <627498bd4bd1f281a16431e3c6cce3b5c25b6692798c78672298aefbf2f8f8b5@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-15 17:35:33 -04:00
Tom Brow
6766174673 chore(push): retire push notification database trigger (#8352)
Buzz must schedule mobile push notifications when it saves an eligible
message. The relay, the server that receives and stores messages, now
does this in application code. An older database trigger still exists.
This trigger is a rule that runs automatically when a message is saved.

This PR removes the old trigger and its supporting database function.
The relay remains responsible for scheduling notifications. Migration
0063 makes this change in existing databases; updated setup scripts
apply it to new databases.

The change does not turn on push notifications. Production migration and
deployment need separate approval. Before deployment, verify the release
images and all pending database migrations. If push needs to be stopped
after release, disable it with the feature flag and keep the qualified
application version and database schema. Do not downgrade the
application image.

### Validation

- Local checks passed: 519 isolated database integration tests, 166
database unit tests, 17 source-policy tests, and the relay push-runtime
tests.
- Tests verify that the migration removes the old trigger, preserves
earlier migration records, and lets the application schedule push work
correctly. A concurrency test exercises the real application path;
deliberately removing its lock makes the test fail.
- [Current-head CI passed on
retry](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38752849383/attempts/2).
The first attempt had one database-connection timeout during test setup;
the failed jobs passed when rerun on the unchanged commit.
- Initial local CI and push checks hit unrelated ACP test failures,
which passed when run separately. Only the Rust-test push hook was
skipped under the repository's local-check exception; other applicable
hooks passed.

### Before merge

- [x] Migration 0063 is available and the push trigger remains on [main
at
5397ea4](5397ea49e2).
Recheck if main advances before merge.

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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
2026-10-15 08:37:55 -07:00
Logan Johnson
71d7aa0436 feat(relay): add the system channel type (#8180)
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## Summary
Buzz uses channel membership to decide who can read what, and every
channel a person belongs to shows up in their client as a chat. So there
is no way to make a group that exists only for access control, for
example "only this agent and its owner can read the agent's config".
Such a channel would appear in both people's sidebars, search results
and unread counts.

This stack adds a **system channel**: an ordinary channel that queries
leave out unless they ask for it. This first PR adds the type itself.

- `kind:9007` (create channel) with `["channel_type", "system"]` creates
a system channel.
- It is private unless the creator sends `["visibility", "open"]`.
- While it is private, its channel metadata event (kind:39000) carries
the NIP-29 `hidden` marker, which means "hide this group's metadata from
non-members". Until now the relay set `hidden` only for DMs.

On its own this PR does not yet hide system channels from queries. Part
2 does that.

Part 1 of 3, stacked on #8176 (the channel labels and creator lookup
stack, which this feature uses).

### Related issue
None found.

### Details
- Migration 0062 adds `system` to the `channel_type` Postgres enum. No
new columns.
- `buzz_core::channel::ChannelType::System`, and `system` is now a
reserved label name (labels cannot equal a channel type name).
- `buzz-admin` reconcile writes `hidden` with the same rule as the
relay. Usage metrics count system channels.
- **Rollback.** A relay older than this change cannot read `channel_type
= 'system'`. Do not roll back past it while system channels exist.
- **Spec.** NIP-CL gets a "System channels" section. `ARCHITECTURE.md`
lists the `System` type.

### Testing
- Relay test: a system channel is private and `hidden` by default;
opening it removes `hidden`; its first `t` tag is `system`.
- Migration embed and usage-metrics tests.

### Stack
These are two stacks. Merge them in this order. Client support
(creating, labeling and finding these channels) will be in
block/buzz-app, not the buzz SDK and CLI.

**Stack 1: channel labels and creator lookup (#8174–#8176)**

1. #8174 channel type and creator tags, and the channel creation time
2. #8175 channel labels
3. #8176 database-side label and creator match, and the rule for
choosing one channel

**Stack 2: system channels (#8180–#8182)**, stacked on stack 1 because
it uses labels and the creator tag

4. #8180 the system channel type ← this PR
5. #8181 leave system channels out of reads that do not name them
6. #8182 channel-state filters opt in to system channels

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Signed-off-by: Logan Johnson <loganj@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry <627498bd4bd1f281a16431e3c6cce3b5c25b6692798c78672298aefbf2f8f8b5@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-14 19:03:34 -04:00