perf(metadata): page artwork backfill by source key

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Problem

Related issue: N/A — narrow performance fix

The manual artwork backfill asks for 1,000 rows at a time, but the old query was not bounded where the work happened. Every page rebuilt a ten-way union across items, localizations, seasons, episodes, and people, joined the full result to the cache-job table, sorted it, and only then applied the limit.

On a production-sized library, one page took 2.316 seconds, hit 155,878 shared buffers, read another 18,537, and considered roughly 540,000 candidates. At the current page size, that put the SQL-only lower bound for a full sweep at about 20 minutes 50 seconds before any image download or cache write.

There was no completed production backfill in task history, so that 20:50 figure is a projection from the measured page cost, not an observed end-to-end duration.

Approach

Discovery now walks one artwork surface at a time and pages on that table's native key. Each statement reads at most 1,000 source rows before checking the matching cache-job row, so PostgreSQL no longer rebuilds and sorts the whole catalog for every page. The episode lookup applies the required collation at the job-key boundary, which keeps the indexed lookup available without changing stored data.

The cursor lives only for the current explicit backfill. Cache-job rows and cached target paths remain the durable state: a restart begins at the first surface and skips work already represented there. Discovery does not advance its cursor after an enqueue error, and a completed sweep that found candidates wraps once to catch concurrent changes that landed behind the cursor.

This does not add a cursor table, migration, API change, or scheduled catalog sweep.

Validation

The complete statements produced by imageCacheDiscoveryQuery for all ten surfaces were run against production PostgreSQL with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS, SETTINGS) inside a read-only transaction. All ten parsed, planned, and completed; the production SQL gate records the command shape and per-surface timings.

The slowest non-empty new page was the episode surface at 129.597 ms, compared with 2.316 seconds for the old all-surface page. Other non-empty first pages measured 52.884 ms for item posters, 19.379 ms for backdrops, 20.605 ms for logos, 23.322 ms for seasons, and 15.893 ms for people. Empty localization pages completed in 0.060–0.112 ms.

• git diff --check — passed
• make verify-local-paths — passed
• Full CI on the current PR head — Go, Web, and docs hygiene passed
• Production deployment — the native-key paging and generated-query implementation is running as build-78; the container is healthy with zero restarts. The no-progress termination guard was added during upstream review and has not been deployed.

The PostgreSQL-backed query test uses SILO_TEST_DATABASE_URL and skips when CI has no database. The string-level test therefore also checks every generated statement for the exact provider predicate, uncached-target predicate, expanded scheme filter, indexed eligibility lookup, and argument count.

Risks

No schema, API, or user-interface behavior changes. A restarted manual backfill rescans source keys from the beginning instead of resuming from a stored cursor, but existing queue rows and cached paths prevent completed work from being downloaded again. Each surface may need one empty boundary page when its row count is an exact multiple of the page size. If two complete sweeps report candidates without enqueuing any work, the run stops; a later explicit backfill starts again from durable state.

AI Disclosure

• Tool(s): OpenAI Codex
• Model(s): GPT-5
• Involvement: AI-assisted
• Adversarial review: The first complete-diff review found that the provider helper and SQL template duplicated the source column, producing invalid generated SQL despite green string tests. That was corrected and all ten exact generated statements were run through production PostgreSQL. Upstream review then found that raw eligible rows rejected by normalization could keep the wraparound loop alive without creating jobs. Discovery now counts only normalized inputs and stops after one no-progress confirmation sweep; focused tests cover both cases. No material finding remains in the final diff.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Image-cache artwork discovery now uses bounded, resumable keyset pagination across ten artwork surfaces. The processor advances cursors across pages, retries after errors, and performs a confirmation sweep when discovery finds candidates but queues no work.

Changes

Image-cache discovery flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository pagination and eligibility internal/metadata/image_cache_job_repo.go, internal/metadata/image_cache_job_repo_test.go, internal/metadata/image_cache_job_repo_db_test.go	The repository queries each artwork surface with native keyset cursors and bounded limits. Queries filter provider URLs and uncached destinations, evaluate existing jobs, and return discovery progress. Tests validate SQL structure and PostgreSQL preparation.
Processor page orchestration internal/metadata/image_cache_processor.go	EnqueueExistingProviderArtwork now accepts a cursor and returns a discovery page. runUntilIdle processes pages with cancellation, enablement, runtime, error, and confirmation-sweep handling.
Paging behavior and retry coverage internal/metadata/image_cache_processor_test.go	Test doubles and scenarios cover cursor tracking, repeated sweeps, manual cursor resets, concurrent updates, and retry after discovery failure.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to faf51

Invalid artwork candidates can cause an unbounded manual backfill to repeatedly rescan the catalog without making progress, increasing database load and delaying completion. Merge readiness requires this wrap condition to be corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImageCacheJobClaimer
  participant Repository
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant ImageCacheQueue
  ImageCacheJobClaimer->>Repository: request discovery page with cursor and limit
  Repository->>PostgreSQL: query artwork surface
  PostgreSQL-->>Repository: eligible rows and next cursor
  Repository->>ImageCacheQueue: enqueue eligible artwork
  Repository-->>ImageCacheJobClaimer: return page progress
  ImageCacheJobClaimer->>Repository: request next page when incomplete

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/metadata/image_cache_job_repo.go`:
- Around line 827-851: Update the enqueueable-count handling around image cache
discovery in internal/metadata/image_cache_job_repo.go:827-851 so the
processor’s wrap decision reflects rows accepted by normalizeImageCacheJobInput,
rather than counting every eligible row; preserve the existing cursor/error
behavior. Add a test scenario in
internal/metadata/image_cache_processor_test.go:139-161 where pages repeatedly
report Discovered greater than zero with Enqueued equal to zero and Complete
true, and assert RunUntilIdle reaches idle without repeating sweeps.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/metadata/image_cache_processor.go` around lines
584 - 594.

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