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fix(queue-storage): drain a large abandoned-claim backlog in bounded time - #646
A killed runtime can leave tens of thousands of receipt claims open, pinning the claim ring while rescue closes only 500 attempts per kind per ordinary interval. This change drains the backlog through bounded transactions, a per-pass time budget and a soft row cap. A pass can finish one batch beyond the cap; zero for either pass control retains the ordinary one-batch cadence.
Accelerated stale-heartbeat batches require settled runtime evidence and use a cutoff estimated from gone-runtime snapshots. Losing that evidence restores the ordinary first-batch cadence. This is a bounded heuristic, not proof of process death: an unconfirmed phase requires every runtime to satisfy 3 × max(runtime_snapshot_interval, 1s) < heartbeat_staleness. With 5-second snapshots and 12-second staleness, a stalled live runtime can pass directly from fresh to gone. Leadership changes restart the evidence window; the default settings usually need about 3–3.5 minutes after a runtime's last snapshot before acceleration.
Confirmed-owner heartbeat recovery now uses the existing 2,000-claim cursor window from its first batch when the effective budget and row cap are positive. This also applies when an ordinary-cadence baseline batch is due within confirmed bulk recovery; its eligibility cutoff stays unchanged. Previously each rearmed pass restarted with 10,000 claims, so an expensive first window could consume the pass budget before reaching smaller follow-up windows. Unconfirmed owners, disabled acceleration, deadline rescue and callback rescue keep the wider first window.
Cursor scans report exhaustion separately from rescued rows. Sweep state survives early passes, advances beyond closed or fresh history, and stops after a complete traversal, including when a window crosses its origin. Normal-cadence revisits preserve access to newly eligible work and reused slots; slot-order fairness survives pass boundaries. The PG18 two-statement advisory-lock/snapshot structure is preserved. No SQL, eligibility, lock ordering, cursor semantics or timing bounds changed in the first-window adjustment.
Ordinary timer ticks now carry an explicit origin, so a prior tick starting a few milliseconds late cannot make the next ordinary pass disappear. Backlog re-arms retain the existing elapsed-time and owner-evidence gate. Ordinary revisits reset completed sweep cursors while preserving unfinished progress; a skipped branch cooldown still consumes its tick-origin marker.
Smaller windows can require more cursor transactions and repeated fixed hash-building work on sparse history. The tests establish progress and convergence, not a physical scan bound or a mixed-workload performance guarantee. Retries keep ordinary backoffs and can become due together; these controls do not promise a promotion rate. No migration is required.
Includes #649's heartbeat-through-finalization protection and keeps independent compact and row-local deadline sweep cursors. The bulk oracle requires durable completion, exactly one recovery execution on attempt 2, no rescues of live or recovered attempts, and a full claim-ring revolution.
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Formatting, all-target/all-feature Clippy with warnings denied, and workspace builds pass in both the root and separate Python Rust workspaces.
Identical new timer controls fail at both intended jitter assertions when only the old strict-comparison behavior is restored. The delayed-baseline and cooldown negative controls still pass; all four controls pass with the fix.
Fifteen worker rescue controls and eight focused runtime rescue cases pass on each of PostgreSQL 17 and 18.
Matched binaries with identical new tests and only the old/new first-window policy differ causally on PG17 and PG18: the old policy fails sparse-prefix progress while the disabled and unconfirmed controls pass; the new policy passes all three. The actual maintenance-service fixture also checks eventual exact-one rescue, fresh-claim protection and sweep termination.
Earlier source passed the unchanged strict 50,000-claim bulk gate serially on PG17 and PG18: 5,000 exhausted attempts reach the DLQ, all 45,000 retryable jobs durably complete exactly once on recovery, and no live or recovered attempts are rescued. Total test wall times are 153.46 s and 106.99 s, respectively; these are not drain measurements. Workload, deadlines and duplicate assertions are unchanged.
Restored, analyzed assertion-engine data with a fixed synthetic cutoff supported the narrower-window hypothesis: both sizes selected the same first 500 identities, while the 10,000-claim candidate/close statements took about 362/419 ms and the 2,000-claim variants about 156/209 ms. This is post-run diagnostic evidence, not the original failing executor state or mixed-load acceptance.
Unresolved release evidence
PG17/rest CI observed 50 retained retryable/DLQ rows before the deliberately killed runtime died. Its cause remains unresolved. Earlier controlled CI-mode passes and the new strict bulk passes do not explain it. A failed database selection in one earlier observer remains missing evidence.
The main bulk fixture retains its bounded failure-only diagnostic: after the original nonzero rescue count, read-only claim, heartbeat, runtime, ring, lock, activity and WAL queries run with 250 ms statement and 100 ms lock deadlines inside a 3 s outer deadline. Missing evidence is explicit; the saved count still drives the unchanged assertion before the kill. Real compact-to-DLQ and lock-timeout controls pass on both PostgreSQL versions.
Historical mixed-load failures also remain unresolved. An earlier frozen assertion-engine run completed and quiesced with no observed live-owner rescues, but backlog clearance took 224.327 s and the claim-ring stall gate failed. The smaller-window change has not yet passed a new combined mixed-workload gate. Fresh exact-head full CI is running or queued. A new combined mixed-load gate remains separate.
Retry accounting snapshot
Main CI exposed a separate fixture race after the kill: reading retryable and available counts in different statements counted a job twice when promotion committed between them (45,080 instead of 45,000). Both counts now come from one exact public admin::queue_overview result statement. The total assertion, deadlines and workload ordering are unchanged.
A real retry/promotion interleaving with identical regression source fails with 2 versus 1 using the split helper and passes with 1 using the atomic helper on PG17 and PG18.
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New Features
Abandoned queue claims are rescued in bounded, resumable batches, with configurable time and row limits available when starting a worker.
Added metrics for rescue batch sizes and the age of the oldest rescued attempt.
Attempts continue heartbeating during completion finalization, and locked attempts are skipped for later processing.
Documentation
Added guidance on rescue behavior, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting, including batch limits and heartbeat-rescue timing.
…time
Rescue passes keep taking 500-attempt batches, each in its own
transaction, within a time budget and a row cap, and run again a second
later while a backlog remains. Stale-heartbeat passes take more than one
batch only once runtime snapshots show the claims' owners gone, and then
only claims heartbeated before the most recent gone runtime stopped
reporting. Batches visit claim slots oldest first with a periodic
others-first batch, walk only the claims near each slot's cursor, and
settle rescued attempts in one statement per outcome. Rescued retries are
paced, and new metrics report rescue pass size and backlog age.
Refs: #627
Adds pass-size and oldest-attempt-age metrics. Tests cover large backlogs, maintenance cursors, and heartbeat-pass timing. Documentation describes rescue settings and operation.
Keeps attempts registered until finalization ends. Heartbeat writes skip locked attempts, and partial progress updates can be retried. Tests cover stalled finalization and heartbeat updates.
sequenceDiagram
participant MaintenanceService
participant QueueStorage
participant RescueOutcomeProcessor
participant AwaMetrics
MaintenanceService->>QueueStorage: Request rescue batch with options
QueueStorage-->>MaintenanceService: Return rescued rows and scan status
MaintenanceService->>RescueOutcomeProcessor: Process rescued outcomes
MaintenanceService->>AwaMetrics: Record rescue pass metrics
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Possibly related issues
hardbyte/awa#303 — The bounded rescue work remains in the maintenance leader loop; this issue concerns starvation between maintenance branches.
hardbyte/awa#627 — The PR adds bounded batches, owner evidence, and rescue handling for abandoned-claim backlogs.
hardbyte/awa#562 — The PR changes rescue and completion interactions and tests heartbeat and progress behavior while a closer holds a lock.
hardbyte/awa#567 — The PR tests recovery of claims left by a killed runtime.
Possibly related PRs
hardbyte/awa#546 — This PR batches rescue settlement while preserving exhausted-attempt and DLQ outcomes.
hardbyte/awa#618 — This PR adds histogram boundary testing that the rescue-pass metric test extends.
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Rescue of some abandoned claims can be delayed, and progress checkpoints may be silently skipped. Earlier concerns about scan bounds, live-runtime protection and documentation accuracy also remain open. Address the more material ones before merging.
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A rabbit watches cursors sweep, Through claim-slot trails and queues asleep. Small batches hop, then circle round, While heartbeats guard the final ground. Metrics mark each rescued run, And retries wait till backoff’s done.
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Enforce the configured rescue row cap before each batch
When rescue_pass_max_rows is configured below one batch—or when the remaining allowance is smaller than the next batch—this check happens only after the batch has already rescued up to 500 lease rows plus 500 receipt claims. For example, rescue_pass_max_rows(1) can still rescue roughly 1,000 attempts per pass and repeat once per second, defeating the documented write-burst and retry-rate control. Either reject/clamp values below the batch size or pass the remaining allowance into the batch operations.
An oversized heartbeat pass can satisfy the > 500 assertion and the eventual-state checks. Add a test with a small rescue_pass_max_rows and enough backlog to reach it. Check the pass-size metric, allowing the final batch to finish.
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Add a focused test near the existing `largest_heartbeat_rescue_pass` assertion
that configures a small `rescue_pass_max_rows` and creates enough backlog to
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Review comments at @awa-model/src/queue_storage.rs:
- Around line 13095-13103: Clamp cursor_scan_limit to i64::MAX before converting
it to i64 in both the stale-heartbeat and row-local deadline receipt-rescue
paths, while preserving the existing minimum of 1 and the default limit
behavior.
- Around line 13103-13111: Update the slot rescue scan around slot_rescued and
batch.idle_slots so a slot is marked idle only when its scan is complete and
drained; continue scanning when its cursor window is incomplete, even if that
window contains only closed claims. Preserve the existing owner-evidence gate
when deciding which claims to rescue.
- Around line 13174-13203: Bound the compact-header work in after_batch_bound so
each rescue batch cannot scan an unbounded number of headers; preserve coverage
of claims sharing the cursor timestamp and ensure the bound still includes
enough headers to identify the batch covering the requested claim count.
Review comments at @awa-worker/src/maintenance.rs:
- Around line 1887-1892: Update the bulk-rescue staleness calculation around
`bulk_heartbeat_cutoff` so rescue eligibility is based on heartbeat evidence for
each claim’s owner, not a shared cutoff that may be stale while the owner’s
runtime is live. Ensure claims are closed and retried only when owner-specific
evidence establishes staleness; preserve existing behavior when that evidence is
unavailable unless the surrounding logic defines a safe alternative.
- Around line 2074-2082: Update the rescue retry scheduling flow that computes
`spread` and advances `horizon` so each retry in a batch receives a rate-limited
`run_at`, rather than sharing one timestamp when the horizon exceeds its
backoff. Preserve each retry’s existing backoff while distributing retry times
across the batch, and retain the `rescue_pass_max_rows` rate limit.
Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Around line 17-19: Update the changelog guidance for `rescue_pass_budget` and
`rescue_pass_max_rows` to qualify the one-second follow-up: a saturated
heartbeat pass without owner evidence or any zero-budget pass uses the normal
rescue interval, and other follow-ups may occur sooner if the configured
interval is shorter. Apply the same qualification in the configuration and API
guidance.
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`largest_heartbeat_rescue_pass` assertion that configures a small
`rescue_pass_max_rows` and creates enough backlog to reach the cap. After
allowing the final batch to finish, verify the pass-size metric reflects the
configured row limit, while preserving the existing eventual-state checks.
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Report the count or oldest age of rescue-eligible claims per ring slot. Add
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Clamp the scan limit before converting it.
On a 64-bit target, cursor_scan_limit: Some(usize::MAX) becomes -1. When receipt rescue reaches the scan, PostgreSQL rejects the limit and the batch fails. Clamp the value to i64::MAX in both the stale-heartbeat and row-local deadline paths.
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Clamp cursor_scan_limit to i64::MAX before converting it to i64 in both the
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Bound the compact-batch header scan.
When a slot retains many headers after the cursor, after_batch_bound can scan them all for each rescue batch. This can overrun the pass budget and delay other maintenance. Bound the header scan itself while preserving claims that share the cursor timestamp.
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Bound the compact-header work in after_batch_bound so each rescue batch cannot
scan an unbounded number of headers; preserve coverage of claims sharing the
cursor timestamp and ensure the bound still includes enough headers to identify
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Prevent follow-up rescue of claims held by live runtimes.
A live heartbeat loop can fall behind on individual claims while its runtime snapshots remain fresh. If another runtime is gone, follow-up batches can close those claims and retry their jobs while the original handlers still run. Require evidence that applies to each claim’s owner before bulk rescue.
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Update the bulk-rescue staleness calculation around `bulk_heartbeat_cutoff` so
rescue eligibility is based on heartbeat evidence for each claim’s owner, not a
shared cutoff that may be stale while the owner’s runtime is live. Ensure claims
are closed and retried only when owner-specific evidence establishes staleness;
preserve existing behavior when that evidence is unavailable unless the
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Supported by static analysis
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When the retry horizon exceeds the backoffs, every retry in a batch gets the same run_at. Promotion can then move up to 1,000 retries into ready lanes together, even with rescue_pass_max_rows set to 100. Assign rate-limited retry times while preserving each backoff.
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Update the rescue retry scheduling flow that computes `spread` and advances
`horizon` so each retry in a batch receives a rate-limited `run_at`, rather than
sharing one timestamp when the horizon exceeds its backoff. Preserve each
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A saturated heartbeat pass without owner evidence, or any pass with a zero budget, uses the normal rescue interval instead. State these exceptions here and in the configuration and API guidance. For other follow-ups, the configured interval can be shorter than one second.
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Update the changelog guidance for `rescue_pass_budget` and
`rescue_pass_max_rows` to qualify the one-second follow-up: a saturated
heartbeat pass without owner evidence or any zero-budget pass uses the normal
rescue interval, and other follow-ups may occur sooner if the configured
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The doomed runtime now claims the backlog in chunks, and the test checks the
open claims span several slots directly rather than inferring it from ring
rotations, which a fast claim phase could finish within one slot.
Track bounded scan exhaustion independently of rescued rows, preserving per-representation sweep boundaries across early passes. Revisit completed scans on the ordinary cadence without resetting unfinished sweeps. Gate accelerated first batches with the same settled owner evidence and cutoff as follow-up batches, and keep slot-order fairness across passes.
Normal retry backoffs can cluster due times, so remove the ineffective pacing horizon and document the actual rescue write bound. Preserve the PostgreSQL 18 two-statement snapshot and advisory-lock structure.
Validation: cargo fmt --all; SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings; SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo build --workspace; seven maintenance rescue tests and all 18 receipt/rescue integration tests on PostgreSQL 17 and 18; agentskills validation for awa-operations.
Keep both rescue and heartbeat changes, resolving the changelog conflict with the actual soft rescue cap and ordinary-cadence safety gate. Required workspace formatting, all-target/all-feature Clippy with warnings denied, and the workspace build pass against the combined source. Strict recovery test and maintenance binaries compile; full combined PostgreSQL validation follows.
The recovery gate now waits for committed completed terminal facts rather than handler observations. Keep exact attempt-2 execution accounting and reject every live or recovered rescue. Retain the existing recovery timeout. Combined source passes workspace fmt, Clippy and build, and this strict test compiles; PostgreSQL acceptance is pending the reserved database test window.
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- Around line 12287-12299: The receipt upsert currently skips attempts whose
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waits to acquire the attempt lock before persisting, while heartbeat batches
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Wait for the attempt lock when flushing progress.
If a heartbeat holds the attempt lock, the receipt upsert skips the flush. For an unmaterialized claim, the leases fallback also writes nothing. flush_progress returns success and acknowledges a checkpoint that was not stored.
Keep skipping locked attempts for heartbeat batches, but wait for the lock for flush_progress.
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The receipt upsert currently skips attempts whose locks are held, allowing
flush_progress to acknowledge unstored progress. Update
upsert_attempt_state_progress_from_receipts_tx and its callers so flush_progress
waits to acquire the attempt lock before persisting, while heartbeat batches
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Describe the soft pass limits.
A heartbeat batch can rescue 500 lease rows and 500 receipt claims, not 500 attempts total. The pass checks both limits after a batch finishes, so it can exceed the row cap and time budget. Operators may otherwise underestimate write bursts and maintenance delays. State the per-source batch limit and that the pass limits are checked between batches. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Remediation: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
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Review comment at @skills/awa-operations/SKILL.md around lines 150 - 151:
Update the rescue description to clarify that each heartbeat batch can process
up to 500 lease rows and 500 receipt claims, rather than 500 attempts total.
State that rescue_pass_budget and rescue_pass_max_rows are soft limits checked
between batches, so a pass can exceed either limit while completing a batch.
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Use the existing follow-up scan window from the first heartbeat batch when
confirmed-owner evidence and both acceleration controls are enabled. Keep
ordinary, unconfirmed and disabled paths on the wider initial scan.
Exercise sparse closed-prefix progress, exact-once disposition, fresh
protection and disabled/unconfirmed wide coverage through real maintenance
passes. SQL, cutoffs, lock ordering and timing bounds are unchanged.
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Review comments at @awa-worker/src/maintenance.rs:
- Around line 2010-2015: Update the `cursor_scan_limit` condition so a first
heartbeat batch receives the reduced scan limit only when
`first_heartbeat_cutoff` is present, not merely when `bulk_heartbeat_cutoff` is
present. Preserve the existing conditions for follow-up batches, budget, and
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Keep the wide scan limit on baseline heartbeat batches.
A baseline batch uses ordinary heartbeat_staleness, but the current condition gives it the 2,000-row scan limit whenever bulk_heartbeat_cutoff exists. Follow-up batches then use the gone-runtime cutoff and can advance the cursor past claims that are stale under ordinary staleness but newer than that cutoff. Those claims can remain unrescued until a later baseline scan reaches them after the cursor wraps.
Apply the reduced limit only when the first batch also uses the cutoff:
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cursor_scan_limit:(batches > 0
|| (kind == RescueKind::Heartbeat
&&bulk_heartbeat_cutoff.is_some()
&& !budget.is_zero()
&&self.rescue_pass_max_rows > 0))
.then_some(RESCUE_FOLLOW_UP_SCAN_LIMIT),
cursor_scan_limit:(batches > 0
|| (kind == RescueKind::Heartbeat
&&first_heartbeat_cutoff.is_some()
&& !budget.is_zero()
&&self.rescue_pass_max_rows > 0))
.then_some(RESCUE_FOLLOW_UP_SCAN_LIMIT),
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Review comment at @awa-worker/src/maintenance.rs around lines 2010 - 2015:
Update the `cursor_scan_limit` condition so a first heartbeat batch receives the
reduced scan limit only when `first_heartbeat_cutoff` is present, not merely
when `bulk_heartbeat_cutoff` is present. Preserve the existing conditions for
follow-up batches, budget, and `rescue_pass_max_rows`.
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Parking this main counterpart under the branch policy now recorded in #383. Fixes land on release/0.6.6 first (#647 here), and main takes one bundled forward-port after each 0.6 release. That port will carry this change, so I'm converting this PR to draft until then.
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A killed runtime can leave tens of thousands of receipt claims open, pinning the claim ring while rescue closes only 500 attempts per kind per ordinary interval. This change drains the backlog through bounded transactions, a per-pass time budget and a soft row cap. A pass can finish one batch beyond the cap; zero for either pass control retains the ordinary one-batch cadence.
Accelerated stale-heartbeat batches require settled runtime evidence and use a cutoff estimated from gone-runtime snapshots. Losing that evidence restores the ordinary first-batch cadence. This is a bounded heuristic, not proof of process death: an unconfirmed phase requires every runtime to satisfy
3 × max(runtime_snapshot_interval, 1s) < heartbeat_staleness. With 5-second snapshots and 12-second staleness, a stalled live runtime can pass directly from fresh to gone. Leadership changes restart the evidence window; the default settings usually need about 3–3.5 minutes after a runtime's last snapshot before acceleration.Confirmed-owner heartbeat recovery now uses the existing 2,000-claim cursor window from its first batch when the effective budget and row cap are positive. This also applies when an ordinary-cadence baseline batch is due within confirmed bulk recovery; its eligibility cutoff stays unchanged. Previously each rearmed pass restarted with 10,000 claims, so an expensive first window could consume the pass budget before reaching smaller follow-up windows. Unconfirmed owners, disabled acceleration, deadline rescue and callback rescue keep the wider first window.
Cursor scans report exhaustion separately from rescued rows. Sweep state survives early passes, advances beyond closed or fresh history, and stops after a complete traversal, including when a window crosses its origin. Normal-cadence revisits preserve access to newly eligible work and reused slots; slot-order fairness survives pass boundaries. The PG18 two-statement advisory-lock/snapshot structure is preserved. No SQL, eligibility, lock ordering, cursor semantics or timing bounds changed in the first-window adjustment.
Ordinary timer ticks now carry an explicit origin, so a prior tick starting a few milliseconds late cannot make the next ordinary pass disappear. Backlog re-arms retain the existing elapsed-time and owner-evidence gate. Ordinary revisits reset completed sweep cursors while preserving unfinished progress; a skipped branch cooldown still consumes its tick-origin marker.
Smaller windows can require more cursor transactions and repeated fixed hash-building work on sparse history. The tests establish progress and convergence, not a physical scan bound or a mixed-workload performance guarantee. Retries keep ordinary backoffs and can become due together; these controls do not promise a promotion rate. No migration is required.
Includes #649's heartbeat-through-finalization protection and keeps independent compact and row-local deadline sweep cursors. The bulk oracle requires durable completion, exactly one recovery execution on attempt 2, no rescues of live or recovered attempts, and a full claim-ring revolution.
Validation
Restored, analyzed assertion-engine data with a fixed synthetic cutoff supported the narrower-window hypothesis: both sizes selected the same first 500 identities, while the 10,000-claim candidate/close statements took about 362/419 ms and the 2,000-claim variants about 156/209 ms. This is post-run diagnostic evidence, not the original failing executor state or mixed-load acceptance.
Unresolved release evidence
PG17/rest CI observed 50 retained retryable/DLQ rows before the deliberately killed runtime died. Its cause remains unresolved. Earlier controlled CI-mode passes and the new strict bulk passes do not explain it. A failed database selection in one earlier observer remains missing evidence.
The main bulk fixture retains its bounded failure-only diagnostic: after the original nonzero rescue count, read-only claim, heartbeat, runtime, ring, lock, activity and WAL queries run with 250 ms statement and 100 ms lock deadlines inside a 3 s outer deadline. Missing evidence is explicit; the saved count still drives the unchanged assertion before the kill. Real compact-to-DLQ and lock-timeout controls pass on both PostgreSQL versions.
Historical mixed-load failures also remain unresolved. An earlier frozen assertion-engine run completed and quiesced with no observed live-owner rescues, but backlog clearance took 224.327 s and the claim-ring stall gate failed. The smaller-window change has not yet passed a new combined mixed-workload gate. Fresh exact-head full CI is running or queued. A new combined mixed-load gate remains separate.
Retry accounting snapshot
Main CI exposed a separate fixture race after the kill: reading retryable and available counts in different statements counted a job twice when promotion committed between them (45,080 instead of 45,000). Both counts now come from one exact public
admin::queue_overviewresult statement. The total assertion, deadlines and workload ordering are unchanged.A real retry/promotion interleaving with identical regression source fails with 2 versus 1 using the split helper and passes with 1 using the atomic helper on PG17 and PG18.
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