# Incremental artifact reads deployment Incremental artifact reads use a 120-second overlap and database modification timestamps. The schema, indexes, and every serving writer must support incremental reads. ## Schema and indexes Migration `0077` adds columns with constant defaults, then changes the defaults for future inserts. It does not rewrite existing rows or run a backfill. Old rows remain at the epoch timestamp. An initial read includes them. New application writers stamp every head change, grant, rejoin, removal, redaction, and move source. Changes to channel listing also require recovery. Old application updates do not maintain all these stamps, so mixed-version serving cannot advertise incremental correctness. For a populated database, first build the revision lookup index outside a transaction, before migration `0076`: ```sql CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx_artifact_revisions_artifact ON public.artifact_revisions (community_id, artifact_id); ``` Apply `0076_artifact_revision_lookup.sql` in a transaction after that prebuild. Then apply `0077_artifact_sync_timestamps.sql` in a transaction with its lock and statement budgets. The migration is idempotent for this prebuild step. Then build these indexes outside a transaction: ```sql CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY artifact_heads_modified ON public.artifact_heads (community_id, modified_at, artifact_id); CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY artifact_heads_channel ON public.artifact_heads (community_id, channel_id, artifact_id); CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY channel_members_sync ON public.channel_members (community_id, pubkey, sync_modified_at, channel_id); CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY artifact_revisions_moves ON public.artifact_revisions (community_id, modified_at, event_id) WHERE source_channel_id IS NOT NULL; ``` Migration `0078` verifies each index definition and its valid, ready, and live flags. It refuses a populated table whose index is missing. A fresh empty database can build the indexes under the migration's short budgets. Migration `0076` also verifies the exact definition and all three flags. Remove an invalid index with `DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY` before a new build. After all index builds succeed, run `buzz-admin migrate` with the target `DATABASE_URL`. It verifies and records `0076`, reapplies the idempotent `0077`, then verifies and records `0078`. Direct SQL application does not record the migration ledger. ## Serving fleet All instances must use the same configured relay signing key, because that key authenticates the progress tokens. NIP-11 advertises `artifacts.incremental`. Every serving writer must maintain the modification timestamps. The 120-second stamp-to-visibility bound remains an operating assumption. Runtime measurements are tracked separately.